[dinosaur] Tyrannosaurus + Qianzhousaurus + China's Illegal Dinosaur Fossil Trade + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Fossil Friday Roundup: March 8, 2019

https://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2019/03/08/fossil-friday-roundup-march-8-2019

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Study Shows How T. Rex Hunted (with video)

https://www.wiproud.com/news/study-shows-how-t-rex-hunted/1835525241

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Baby T. Rex Was an Adorable Ball of Fluff

https://www.livescience.com/64936-t-rex-new-look-exhibit.html

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Tyrannosaurus rex has a surprise for you (video of new exhibit at AMNH)

https://www.cnet.com/videos/tyrannosaurus-rex-has-a-surprise-for-you/

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A New Look at T. Rex and Its Relatives

https://www.livescience.com/64921-t-rex-relatives-images.html

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Qianzhousaurus--This Badass T-Rex Relative Once Terrorized China

https://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/post/27105/this-badass-t-rex-relative-once-terrorized-china

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Did Tarbosaurus have a throat pouch? (in Czech)

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2019/03/07/mel-tarbosaurus-hrdelni-vak/

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Megalosaurus -- Reverse-Engineering Conservation: Revealing the secrets of the first scientifically described dinosaur

http://blogs.springeropen.com/springeropen/2019/03/08/reverse-engineering-conservation-revealing-secrets-first-scientifically-described-dinosaur/

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More info (with photos) about new end-Cretaceous dinosaur site discovery in southern Chile (in Spanish)

https://www.latercera.com/que-pasa/noticia/el-sorprendente-hallazgo-de-fosiles-de-dinosaurios-que-dejo-expedicion-cientifica-a-la-patagonia-chilena/561417/

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Bones show ancient marine reptile was a big baby

Plesiosaurs likely needed this survival advantage in predator-infested seas

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/bones-show-ancient-marine-reptile-was-big-baby

More info:

https://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2019/01/17/pregnant-plesiosaurs-and-baby-bones-bone-histology-reveals-ontogeny-in-polycotylid-plesiosaurs/

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Uncovering China's Illegal Dinosaur Fossil Trade

http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/post/27096/uncovering-china-s-illegal-dinosaur-fossil-trade

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Fossil Butte And Dinosaur National Monuments: Prehistoric Bones For All Ages

https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2019/03/fossil-butte-and-dinosaur-national-monuments-prehistoric-bones-all-ages

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Indian Museum of Earth planned as a center for paleontology, similar to Smithsonian Institution

https://www.deccanherald.com/national/desi-version-smithsonian-721873.html

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Armadillos

https://twilightbeasts.org/2019/03/08/remarkable-creatures/

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