[dinosaur] Utahraptor block funding problems + Hatzegopteryx model + giant theropod tracks in Bolivia + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Work on Utahraptor fossil block stalled by funding drop

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/north/lehi/lehi-palentologist-shares-passion-for-dinosaurs-waits-for-utahraptors-to/article_3b792309-96b7-5b49-b4cd-5d6992903c69.html

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Giant Hatzegopteryx model on display at Antipa Museum in Bucharest, Romania

http://www.romania-insider.com/largest-flying-dinosaur-display-bucharest-museum/

 

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Preparing for Henry the Triceratops skeleton display at Missouri Institute of Natural Science (video)

 

http://www.ky3.com/content/news/Addition-to-Missouri-Institute-of-Natural-Science-almost-complete-387780931.html

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Dutch student studies geology of Triceratops site (video in Dutch)

 

http://www.nationalgeographic.nl/video/geologisch-onderzoek-triceratops

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Mary Schweitzer interview

http://thewell.intervarsity.org/voices/unlikely-paleontologist-interview-mary-schweitzer-part-1

http://thewell.intervarsity.org/voices/unlikely-paleontologist-interview-mary-schweitzer-part-2

 

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Tyler Lyson  on digging turtle ancestors, radio interview

 

https://www.cpr.org/news/story/why-did-ancient-turtles-grow-shells-denver-paleontologist-found-out

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Mark Witton book on Age of Reptiles art

https://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2016/jul/20/palaeoart-recreating-an-age-of-reptiles-mark-witton-dinosaurs?CMP=share_

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New study and preservation efforts for dinosaur tracksite at Cal Orck'o at Sucre in Bolivia; new finds include gigantic theropod tracks and possible ceratopsian tracks (in Spanish) 

https://correodelsur.com/cultura/20160720_nuevo-estudio-revela-mas--sobre-sucre-paleontologica.html

https://correodelsur.com/cultura/20160719_sucre-certifican-riqueza-de-cal-orcko-y-del-d-8.html

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Flooding in Australia strands dinosaur museum staff at Winton

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/staff-at-queensland-dinosaur-museum-stranded-after-flooding-20160721-gqaysd.html

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New Bay of Fundy fossils include sphenodonts and a theropod

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/parrsboro-fossil-cliffs-discovery-1.3689214

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Coal Age tetrapod tracks from Alabama

http://alabamanewscenter.com/2016/07/22/footprints-in-stone-fossils-of-coal-age-animals-attract-global-visitors/

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Blue Beach in Nova Scotia, Canada, tetrapod fossils from the Lower Carboniferous "Romer's Gap" (podcast)

http://www.palaeocast.com/episode-67-blue-beach-tetrapods/

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How Did the Ancestors of Modern-Day Birds Survive?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-did-the-ancestors-of-modern-day-birds-survive/

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Videos

A History of Antarctica, w/ Dinosaurs

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-history-of-antarctica-is-actually-a-really-fun-tale-1784067739

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z6jkkvRvVQ

(Slighty muddled paleontology, with dinosaurs and Lystrosaurus mixed together)

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