[dinosaur] Mantellisaurus from Isle of Wight + Russian ichthyosaur with 4 nostrils + SVP interviews + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Fossil Friday Roundup: January 20, 2017

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2017/01/20/fossil-friday-roundup-january-20-2017/

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Mantellisaurus skeleton from Isle of Wight prepared from possible display

http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/news/piecing-together-incredible-isle-of-wight-dinosaur-discovery-97413.aspx

video:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-38666085

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Russian ichthyosaur with four nostrils (similar to Muiscasaurus)  discovered in Ulyanovsk region

(in Russian)

http://ulgrad.ru/?p=154230

http://www.ul.kp.ru/online/news/2630336/

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Birds as living dinosaurs (from a bird watcher)

http://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20170120/hard-to-believe-theyre-dinosaurs

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An ode to the Titanosaur

http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2017/01/kuesel-editors-jan

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Texas counselor, students plead guilty in Utah dinosaur fossil theft case

http://www.sltrib.com/news/4844934-155/texas-counselor-students-plead-guilty-in

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Video interviews from SVP2016

Jim Kirkland on Utahraptor discovery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rk5gaY23j4

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Carrie Levitt-Bussian: Meet Kosmoceratops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxwJP9O5ECE

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Daniel Ksepka: The Long History of Penguins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFIRdaKNJcc

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NHMU's Past Worlds dinosaurs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXs2LRLBALk

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Adam Pritchard on High-Tech Imaging in Paleontology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPl04QHN1D8

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Las Hoyas audio interview

http://www.palaeocast.com/episode-72-las-hoyas/

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Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, celebrates 200 years (in German)

http://www.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=5206&kid=1&id=4309

http://www.fr-online.de/frankfurt/naturforschung-200-jahre-senckenberg,1472798,35086728.html

Photos include remounting of Diplodocus after WW2 in 1948 (with  awkward "reptilian" posture with curious widely outward flexed limbs, originally imposed in 1936, supposedly to show an aquatic animal reaching for the surface of a lake),  as well as the  more recent upright remounted version (with back legs a bit less flexed but still not fully upright)

http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/presse_donecker/2017/bildliste.pdf

http://www.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=13219

http://www.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=3083

 

See pages 223,  232 and 233 in this book chapter:

https://www.huygens.knaw.nl/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Nieuwland-Ilja.-2012.-The-Wandering-Friend.-Andrew-Carnegie%E2%80%99s-Dinosaur-Invades-Europe-1904-1918.-Popular-Exhibitions-Science-and-Showmanship-1840-1910-219-236.pdf

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