[dinosaur] New gigantic (flightless?) pterosaur from Romania + sauropod skin + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

New gigantic pterosaur from Romania, said to be a new taxon and the largest pterosaur ever found, nicknamed "Dracula," goes on display at new pterosaur exhibit âHerrscher der LÃfteâ [Lords of the Air] at the Dinosaurier-Museum AltmÃhltal; said to be known from virtually all parts of the skeleton, allowing an accurate reconstruction. Because of its enormous size (as big as a giraffe) and weight (est. half a metric ton), there is some question of whether it could actually fly, although it had a 12 meter wingspan. The new pterosaur lived after Hatzegopteryx, at the very end of the Cretaceous. It may have been the largest predator at the time on the island where it lived.ÂA scientific description is planned for publication in the autumn.ÂÂÂ(in German)

http://www.donaukurier.de/nachrichten/panorama/Denkendorf-DKmobil-Dracula-in-Denkendorf;art154670,3721531

https://www.n-tv.de/wissen/Museum-stellt-Riesensaurier-Dracula-aus-article20350242.html

videos

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"Dracula" in Denkendorf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZFvTlC_2EM

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âDraculaâ The Largest Flying Dinosaur Ever Discovered Goes On Display!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM0nOuU0HTg

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abstracts with photos; dinosaur and other vertebrate ichnology

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Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of Continental Ichnology (ICCI 2017), Nuy Valley (Western Cape Winelands), 1â8 October 2017

Palaeontologia Africana 52: 129-193

URI:Âhttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/24150

http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/24150

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Tratayenia

http://theropoda.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-megaraptoran-battle-tratayenia.html

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Thinking about sauropod skin

https://svpow.com/2018/03/22/thinking-about-sauropod-skin/

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Early birds may have been too hefty to sit on their eggs

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03447-3