Ben Creisler
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Fossil Friday Roundup: February 22, 2019
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MorosÂ
Introducing Moros intrepidus, the Harbinger of DoomÂ
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Moros and the dawn of the tyrannosauroids with an arctometatarsus
Moros e l'alba dei tyrannosauroidi arctometatarsali (in Italian)
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Famous "Prehistoric Drama" triple fossil of a Rhamphorhynchus with a just caught fish its throat, snatched by a ganoid Aspidorhynchus that then died with the drowned pterosaur stuck on its pointed jaws is back on display at the BÃrgermeister-MÃller-Museum in Solnhofen. The fossil is privately owned and was taken off display over legal issues, now resolved. The museum also has the fluffy-tailed baby theropod Sciurumimus and four Archaeopteryx specimens. (in German)
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Description of triple fossil with free pdf:
Frey E, Tischlinger H (2012) The Late Jurassic Pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus, a Frequent Victim of the Ganoid Fish Aspidorhynchus? PLoS ONE 7(3): e31945. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031945
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More on the Spanish leptocleidid plesiosaur from Morella (in Spanish)
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Plants first to succumb to the end-Permian event
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How to spot palaeontological crankery
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What secrets fossils reveal: using modern technology to study fossils (in German)
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'T. Rex May Be Smaller Than Previously Thought,' Report 50-Foot-Tall Researchers
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Videos:
Fossil Fish from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta
Don Brinkman
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology 2019 Speaker Series
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Two New Sauropods Generate Excitement and Controversy
SciShow News
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Protoceratops andrewsi - Fossil Friday
Carnegie Museum of Natural History