[dinosaur] Ouranosaurus + Montana dinosaurs + Kazakhstan elasmosaur + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Ouranosaurus, sail-back dinosaur got flashier with age

http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/sail-back-dinosaur-got-flashier-with-age/

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The 'Chickens From Hell' Were Probably Good Parents

https://www.insidescience.org/news/chickens-hell-were-probably-good-parents

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UWO geologist unearths new explanation for famous Jurassic dinosaur bone bed

http://www.uwosh.edu/today/51537/uwo-geologist-unearths-new-explanation-for-famous-jurassic-dinosaur-bone-bed/

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Unearthing a Time When Dinos Roamed North Dakota

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/travel/north-dakota-badlands-fossils-dinosaurs-prehistoric-public-digs.html

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Montana dinosaur trail

http://helenair.com/lifestyles/recreation/two-thousand-miles-through-millions-of-years-montana-s-dinosaur/article_f05cbdcf-27e7-5124-8b90-de1e9ab2ecf0.html

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North Carolina legislature kills expansion of dinosaurs at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

http://www.wral.com/who-killed-the-dinosaurs-a-state-budget-mystery/16807239/

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Tracks of Feathered Dinosaur Found in Iran

http://ifpnews.com/exclusive/traces-feathered-dinosaur-found-iran/

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National Museum of Buryatia has dinosaur bones, some  confiscated from people smuggling fossils out of Mongolia (returned), and some from the region itself (in Russian)

http://www.infpol.ru/news/society/129648-buryatiya-yurskogo-perioda-karta-obitaniya-dinozavrov-/

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Elasmosaur skeleton found in Mangystau region of  Kazakhstan (in Russian)

https://www.lada.kz/aktau_news/society/50205-v-mangistau-muzhchina-nashel-okameneluyu-chast-pozvonochnika-drevney-reptilii.html

https://express-k.kz/news/nauka/privet_ot_kazakhstanskoy_nessi-103630

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German court says Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe Naturkundemuseum in Münster must pay amateur fossil hunter who found important plesiosaur skeleton (Westphaliasaurus) in 2007 more than 21,500 euros (instead of about 12,000 euros already paid); the museum prepared the skeleton and put it on display  (in German)

http://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_hoexter/nieheim/nieheim/21849614_Bielefelder-bekommt-21.000-Euro-Finderlohn-fuer-Saurierskelett.html

http://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/westfalen-lippe/dinosaurier-skelett-fund-hobby-palaeontologe-100.html

More on specimen

https://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/lwl-naturkunde/naturkundemuseum/ausstellungen/dinosaurier-die-urzeit-lebt/schwimmsaurier

free pdf of Westphaliasaurus description

http://www.lwl.org/wmfn-download/Geologie_und_Palaeontologie_in_Westfalen/GuP_Heft_79.pdf

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Triassic marine reptiles from Iberian Peninsula (in Spanish)

http://godzillin.blogspot.com/2017/07/estudiando-el-material-clasico-de.html

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Fossil turtles from Iberian Peninsula (in Spanish)

http://godzillin.blogspot.com/2017/07/las-tortugas-fosiles-ibericas-compendio.html

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Frogs thrive after dinosaur demise (in Czech)

 https://dinosaurusblog.com/2017/07/10/katastrofa-k-pg-uvolnila-cestu-zabam/