[dinosaur] Rescuing Australian dinosaur tracks + Mnyamawamtuka + Scipionyx awards + more

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Tracks across time

The race to rescue 95-million-year-old dinosaur footprints from the elements in the Queensland outback of Australia.

(with interactive multimedia)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-14/the-race-to-save-wintons-dinosaur-footprints/10578212

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Mnyamawamtuka: New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail provides evolutionary clues for African continent

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-mnyamawamtuka-dinosaur-heart-shaped-tail-evolutionary.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/p-ent020719.php

https://gizmodo.com/newly-discovered-african-titanosaur-had-a-distinctly-he-1832595617

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Mongolian proto-thief dinosaur had egg-crushing jaws

https://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2019/02/09/mongolian-proto-thief-dinosaur-had-egg-crushing-jaws/

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Italian Minister of the Environment gives award to Giovanni Todesco for his discovery of the Scipionyx fossil, along with paleontologists Giorgio Teruzzi and Cristiano Dal Sasso, who studied it (in Italian)

https://www.zetanews.it/il-ministro-costa-a-benevento-per-premiare-il-paleontologo-che-scopri-il-dinosauro-ciro/

https://www.ilquaderno.it/il-ministro-costa-visita-pietraroja-benevento--quot;una-bellissima-storia-113-milioni-anni-quot;-133425.html

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The role of the rolling jaw in early mammals

https://news.yale.edu/2019/02/13/role-rolling-jaw-early-mammals

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Pappochelys: Cancer In Deep Time

Brian EnghÂ interview

https://chasmosaurs.com/2019/02/12/pappochelys-cancer-in-deep-time/

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Why aren't reptiles as big as dinosaurs?

https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/why-arent-reptiles-big-dinosaurs

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Dinosaurs at Boonshoft Museum of Discovery in Dayton, Ohio

https://www.daytondailynews.com/events/dinosaurs-reign-the-boonshoft-museum/ffNDoDvhjx4dPdUTyZ8HVM/

Pterosaur exhibit at Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta

https://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/entertainment/arts_theatre/fernbank-museum-to-debut-pterosaurs-exhibit/article_e2a8de0f-1a88-50a5-af87-5e1b9985e71d.html

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Proposed Utahraptor State Park likely won't happenÂ

http://www.moabsunnews.com/news/article_499f6694-1a76-11e9-b988-a711511cc842.html

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Temnospondyls--My what big &#%!@*? teeth you have

https://bryangee.weebly.com/blog/my-what-big-teeth-you-have

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New clue in curious case of cassowary casque

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-clue-curious-case-cassowary-casque.html