[dinosaur] Dinosaur blood caution + sauropod ancestor + enantiornithine fusion + ichthyosaurs + more

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Dinosaur Blood? New Research Urges Caution Regarding Fossilized Soft Tissue

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2017/october/fossilised-soft-tissue.html

Was the ancestor of the giant sauropods a predator?

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2017/10/09/was-the-ancestor-of-the-giant-sauropods-a-predator/

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Fused bones in early enantiornithine bird Pterygornis

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-fossil-date-earliest-fused-bones.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41518892

In Chinese

http://www.uua.cn/show-10-8390-1.html

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Compact Thescelosaurus [Dinosaur and More Database] Year Two

http://equatorialminnesota.blogspot.com/2017/10/compact-thescelosaurus-year-two.html

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Triassic ichthyosaur finds in Alaska

http://www.thearcticsounder.com/article/1740prehistoric_bones_found_a_mile_above_mccarthy

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Protoichthyosaurus

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/the-fall-and-rise-of-protoichthyosaurus/

http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/faked-fossils-reveal-hidden-marine-reptile-diversity/

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Baby Food for Ichthyosaurs

http://www.drneurosaurus.com/2017/10/baby-food-for-ichthyosaurs/

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Beasts of the Grand Staircase!

https://chasmosaurs.blogspot.com/2017/10/beasts-of-grand-staircase.html

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National Fossil Day October 11, 2017

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2017/09/20/upcoming-national-fossil-day-events-part-1/

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2017/09/29/upcoming-national-fossil-day-events-part-2/

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2017/10/09/upcoming-national-fossil-day-events-part-3

Win a replica of Teratophoneus for your school!

http://vertpaleo.org/Society-News/SVP-Paleo-News/Society-News,-Press-Releases/Win-a-Terataphoneus-replica-for-your-school-on-Nat.aspx

Felisa Aguilar on 32 sites in Mexico with dinosaur tracks (in Spanish)

Son 32 los sitios en el país que tienen huellas de dinosaurios:

http://www.cronica.com.mx/notas/2017/1047103.html

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Chilesaurus fossils find a final home at the Chilean National Museum of Natural History in Santiago, Chile (in Spanish)

http://www.mnhn.cl/613/w3-article-79190.html

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Amur dinosaurs at the Science Festival in Moscow (in Russian)

https://portamur.ru/news/detail/amurskih-dinozavrov-pokajut-na-festivale-nauki-v-moskve/

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in Czech:

Hell on dinosaur planet

http://www.stoplusjednicka.cz/peklo-na-dinosauri-planete

How to find a dinosaur (Czech in Montana):

http://www.stoplusjednicka.cz/jak-se-hledaji-dinosauri-na-navsteve-v-tabore-amaterskych-paleontologu

First Japanese tyrannosaur:

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2017/10/10/prvni-japonsky-tyranosaur/

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Opera 'Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt' in the dinosaur hall of the American Museum of Natural History explores the paleoart of Charles Knight

https://hyperallergic.com/402526/rhoda-and-the-fossil-hunt-amnh-on-site-opera/