Ben Creisler
Some recent items:
Fossil Friday Roundup: November 11, 2016
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When is a fossil a fossil? by Phil Manning
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Guided video tours of dinosaur track sites around Moab, Utah
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Sauropod back claws formed a "hoe" for digging, a follow-up to a video posted a few days back from the Cleveland Museum:
based on this ref:
Hall, Lee E., Ashley E. Fragomeni, and Denver W. Fowler (2016). "The Flexion of Sauropod Pedal Unguals and Testing the Substrate Grip Hypothesis Using the Trackway Fossil Record." In Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps, edited by Falkingham Peter L., Marty Daniel, and Richter Annette, 139-51. Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016.
Note that most of this chapter can be previewed in Google books starting on page 139 (with some blanked-out pages):
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More on Cleveland Museum Dinofest
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More on 300 pterosaur tracks discovered at Praia da Peralta in Portugal in 2010; now have been studied in a thesis (Simon Kongshøj Callesen: "New Pterosaur Tracks (Pteraichnidae) from the Late Jurassic of Praia da Peralta, Portugal"); tracks show quadrupedal gait and are bigger than any Jurassic pterosaurs known from fossil bones; with audio from Octávio Mateus (in Portuguese)
I posted this blog link earlier:
Discovered in 2010 and now described in a doctoral thesis
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Xu Xing interview about using dinosaur research to inspire interest in science in children (in Chinese)
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Early mammal tooth function
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Dinosauromorphs from Brazil