[dinosaur] 2016 in paleontology + Dippy's last days in London + burrows around Omeisaurus + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

More year-end lists and surveys for 2016:

2016 was a successful year for paleontology

http://www.wildprehistory.com/news/2016-was-a-successful-year-for-paleontology/

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2016 in review

http://equatorialminnesota.blogspot.com/2016/12/2016-in-review.html

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Dinosaur Statistics 2016 (in Czech)

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2017/01/02/dinosauri-statistika-za-rok-2016/

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Inventario de los nuevos reptiles mesozoicos ibéricos de 2016

http://godzillin.blogspot.com/2016/12/inventario-de-los-nuevos-reptiles.html

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Mesozoic month of December news-blog roundup...

https://chasmosaurs.blogspot.com/2017/01/this-mesozoic-month-december-2016.html

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Over-interpreting old photos of sauropod vertebrae...

https://svpow.com/2017/01/02/beware-over-interpreting-photos-of-fossils/

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In Chinese:

Monoenantiornis

http://www.uua.cn/show-10-7838-1.html

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Burrows found around body of Omeisaurus 

http://www.uua.cn/show-10-7837-1.html

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Dippy's final days on display at the London Natural History Museum...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/01/dippy-diplodocus-london-tour-replica-dinosaur-whale-natural-history-museum

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-38483244

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Argentine paleontologist Bernardo González Riga calls 2016 the "year of the titanosaurs" (in Spanish)

http://www.diariouno.com.ar/el-2016-fue-gonzalez-riga-el-ano-los-descubrimientos-20161231-n1312781.html

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Dorygnathus pterosaur fossil found in September 2016 in the  Geopunkt Jurameer Schandelah in Germany gets X-ray to aid preparation (in German)

http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/braunschweig_harz_goettingen/180-Millionen-Jahre-alter-Flugsaurier-wird-geroengt,flugsaurier112.html

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Crassigyrinus biomechanics

https://anatomytoyou.com/2017/01/02/in-focus-investigating-the-biomechanics-of-the-tadpole-from-hell/

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Sounds of the Deep Past--Parasaurolophus

https://aeon.co/essays/how-palaeontologists-recreate-the-sounds-of-the-deep-past