[dinosaur] Protecting Utah fossil sites + giant birds + Deltasuchus + Giraffatitan + videos + more

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

SVP on protecting Utah fossil sites

http://vertpaleo.org/Society-News/SVP-Paleo-News/Grand-Staircase-Escalante-and-Bears-Ears-National.aspx

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An Inordinate Fondness for Giant Birds

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/an-inordinate-fondness-for-giant-birds/

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Dinosaur-eating crocodiles [Deltasuchus] once roamed here. Now it’s an Arlington neighborhood (with video)

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/arlington/article181614746.html

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Dinosaurs take over Big Bend at fossil exhibit

http://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/travel-outdoors/article/Dinosaurs-take-over-Big-Bend-at-fossil-exhibit-12312234.php

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To whom does the biggest dinosaur really belong? The controversial history of the Berlin Giraffatitan [Brachiosaurus] specimen, collected during colonial times and now claimed by Tanzania. A technical publication on the specimen, based on recent work when the fossils were painstakingly conserved and remounted, is due to be published in 2018. (in German)

http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/kultur/Wem-gehoert-der-groesste-Dinosaurier-wirklich-id43057101.html

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Luxembourg plesiosaur (Microcleidus melusinae)

in German

http://www.tageblatt.lu/headlines/saurierfund-in-luxemburg-ist-neue-art/comment-page-1/

in French

http://www.lessentiel.lu/fr/luxembourg/story/13374196

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Archosaurs vs. synapsids in Permian of Russia, tales told in coprolites (in Russian)

http://paleonews.ru/colum/994-coprotooth

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A bit off the beaten path...