[dinosaur] Montana sauropod excavation + ankylosaurs + Pelagornis flight + Cretaceous polar amber + more

Ben Creisler

Some recent items:

The remains of a giant sauropod known as "Big Monty" believed to be the biggest dinosaur ever discovered in Montana; excavation to resume in July by Judith River Dinosaur Institute (video)

http://www.kpax.com/story/32237024/researchers-to-begin-excavating-montanas-largest-dinosaur

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Titanosaur at American Museum of Natural History, a review

https://extinctmonsters.net/2016/06/14/meeting-the-titanosaur/

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Ankylosaur "Fight Club" is wishful thinking

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/sadly-ankylosaur-fight-club-probably-wishful-thinking-180959448/?no-ist

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Smithsonian Channel World's Biggest Beasts:

http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/worlds-biggest-beasts/0/3425021

Video clips:

Giant flying Pelagronis

http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/videos/how-the-largest-flying-bird-of-all-time-stayed-airborne/49367?an=featured

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Pliosaur swimming

http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/videos/what-ultra-high-speed-penguin-footage-reveals-about-pliosaurs/49366

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Mosasaur fossils found in Chartreuse, France (in French)

http://www.ledauphine.com/savoie/2016/06/14/les-restes-d-un-lezard-geant-decouverts-en-chartreuse

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Jack Horner turns 70 (in Czech)

http://dinosaurusblog.com/2016/06/15/jack-horner-slavi-70/

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Preparation work on hadrosaur tail found at General Cepeda in Mexico (in Spanish)

http://www.zocalo.com.mx/seccion/articulo/avanza-restauracion-de-cola-de-dinosaurio-1466056483

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Cretaceous amber from Australia and Canada reveals ancient polar forests

https://royaltyrrellmuseum.wordpress.com/2016/06/14/speaker-series-2016-the-amber-trap-unlocking-stories-of-ancient-polar-climates-from-fossilized-tree-resin/

Royal Tyrrell Museum Speaker Series 2016 (video)

Dr. Annie Quinney, Postdoctoral Fellow, Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary

"The Amber Trap – Unlocking Stories of Ancient Polar Climates from Fossilized Tree Resin"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnrztT0wGFA&list=PLE5C051E20D553713

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Hunting for dinosaurs in Antarctica

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/15/hunting-for-dinosaurs-in-antarctica

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Fast extinction of dinosaurs

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/jun/15/new-study-finds-evidence-for-a-fast-dinosaur-extinction

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What wiped out the dinosaurs

http://thewire.in/35146/what-wiped-out-the-dinosaurs/

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T. rex gender

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2016/06/15/gender-identification-in-t-rex/

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Paleoartist Michael Skrepnick on dinosaur coloration

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/art-deciding-color-dinosaurs-part-paleontology-part-palette/story?id=39227262

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Drought in Australia reveals fossil bones

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-15/drought-turns-graziers-into-amateur-paleontologists/7507618

Giant siren salamander Habrosaurus from Cretaceous

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/the-biology-of-sirens/

Museo paleontológico Egidio Feruglio de Trelew in Argentina to get expansion (in Spanish)

http://www.lacapital.com.ar/el-trabajo-un-museo-trelew-llega-eeuu-n963868

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Sue T. rex replica in Santa Barbara

https://www.noozhawk.com/article/santa_barbara_museum_natural_history_tyrannosaurus_rex