[dinosaur] Scanning Giraffatitan bones + opal dinosaur fossils + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Scanning Berlin Giraffatitan

https://dinosaurpalaeo.wordpress.com/2016/10/28/making-mike-taylor-gloriously-green-eyed/

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Lightning Ridge opal fossils, including dinosaurs

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/austropalaeo/2016/10/all-that-glitters

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Top Ten Vertebrate Paleontology Finds of 2016 in  PLOS

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2016/10/28/paleo-top-ten-plos/

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Fossil Friday Roundup: October 28, 2016

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2016/10/28/fossil-friday-roundup-october-28-2016/

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SVP Meeting news items

Ancient Bird Coughed Up 'Fishy' Pellet 120 Million Years Ago

http://www.livescience.com/56677-oldest-known-bird-pellet-discovered.html

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Mistaken Identity? Debate Over Ancient 4-Legged Snake Heats Up

http://www.livescience.com/56685-debate-about-four-legged-snake-fossil.html

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Chemical analysis demonstrates communal nesting in dinosaurs

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-10/sovp-cad102816.php

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Modeling the vertebrate invasion of land

http://phys.org/news/2016-10-vertebrate-invasion.html

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Giant extinct salmon fought with spike teeth during upriver spawning events

https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-10/sovp-ges102816.php

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Imaging fossils

http://dinosaursabbatical.blogspot.com/2016/10/imaging-life-on-earth_86.html

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