[dinosaur] T. rex slashing finger claws? + Matheronodon + Mary Anning film + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

T. rex’s silly-looking arms were built for slashing

Robust bones and bearlike claws suggest the dino’s ridiculously small limbs were far from useless

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/t-rex-silly-looking-arms-were-built-slashing

GSA abstract

https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2017AM/webprogram/Paper297346.html

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More on Matheronodon

https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/actu/des-chercheurs-poitevins-identifient-un-nouveau-dinosaure

https://www.naturalsciences.be/en/news/item/9102/

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More on Teratophoneus find in Utah

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/dinosaurs/near-complete-tyrannosaur-skeleton-found-in-utah.htm

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Ophthalmosaurid from India

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2017/10/26/mollusc-munching-marine-monster-first-jurassic-ichthyosaur-found-in-india-plos-research-news/

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'The Poldark of Dorset': Life of famous fossil hunter Mary Anning set to hit the big screen

http://www.bridportnews.co.uk/NEWS/15619204.Life_of__the_Poldark_of_Dorset__could_be_aired_on_the_big_screen/

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Limusaurus (in Chinese)

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_88fd3e090102xblp.html?tj=1

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Ankylosaur armor and vertebrae found at Shestakovo in Siberia (in Russian)

http://kuzbass85.ru/2017/10/25/on-vernulsya-iz-boya-cherez-100-millionov-let/

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Interview with paleontologist Sophia Sinitsa about dinosaur discoveries in Transbaikal region of Siberia (in Russian)

http://www.nsktv.ru/news/obshchestvo/paleontolog_iz_zabaykalya_vspominaet_otkrytiya_i_gotovitsya_k_novym_ekspeditsiyam_251020171351/

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Power points for talks at the Paleontological Society of Washington

 

http://nmnh.typepad.com/paleontological_society/presentations-of-past-speakers-1.html

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