[dinosaur] Eastern Cape dinosaur graveyard + T. rex Victoria update + Emu feet + more

Ben Creisler

Some recent items:

Exploring the dinosaur graveyards of the Eastern Cape

https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/users/317374-david-paul-ford/posts/54340-exploring-the-dinosaur-graveyards-of-the-eastern-capeÂ

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Angeac-Charente dinosaur site in France, exceptional in having bones, tracks, and other evidence of an ancient ecosystem (in French)

https://www.ouest-france.fr/leditiondusoir/data/63746/reader/reader.html#!preferred/1/package/63746/pub/91054/page/16

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Triassic Atreipus tracks stop condo project

https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/rockland/blauvelt/2019/10/02/blauvelt-condo-proposal-pulled-back/3840894002/

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Update on a controversial item...

T. rex Victoria tour background--interview with Heinrich Mallison and John Norman; specimen 3-D scanned at high resolution for research purposes but remains privately owned and not curated in a museum or academicÂinstitution

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/340115

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Emu feet--closest thing to living (non-avian) theropod feet...

https://bestiarium.kryptozoologie.net/artikel/the-bird-that-follows-in-the-footsteps-of-the-dinosaurs/

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85-million-year-old crocodile fossil found on campus of the Universidad de NeuquÃn in Argentina (in Spanish)

https://www.cronica.com.ar/info-general/Hallan-cocodrilo-prehistorico-en-Neuquen-20191003-0029.html

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Chicxulub - devilish cemetery of the dinosaurs--article in ABC magazine (in Czech)

https://www.abicko.cz/clanek/precti-si-priroda/25441/dabelsky-chicxulub-hrbitov-dinosauru.html

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Non-dino...

XXXV Jornadas de PaleontologÃa de la Sociedad EspaÃola de PaleontologÃa (Oct. 2-5, 2019)
No abstracts books yet that I can find...

http://sepaleontologia.es/proximas-jornadas-2019/

Program (a few dinosaur papers):

http://sepaleontologia.es/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/3%C2%AA-Circular-SEP-BAZA-2019.pdf

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Phoebodus, ancient Devonian-Carboniferous shark skeleton found

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-skeletal-phoebodus-morocco.html

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/10/amazing-fossil-shark-skeleton-first-of-its-kind-phoebodus-morocco/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-shark-looked-eel-and-swallowed-its-prey-whole-180973272/

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First Jurassic ichnofossils of a fish mouth from bottom-feeding activity found in Asturias in Spain (in Spanish)

http://www.museojurasicoasturias.com/es/noticias/326/primer-hallazgo-de-las-impresiones-de-la-boca-de-un-pez-en-el-jursico-mundial-en-asturias.html

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How did the extinction of saber-toothed cats impact other mammals?

https://phys.org/news/2019-10-extinction-saber-toothed-cats-impact-mammals.html

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Are Neanderthals the same species as us?

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/are-neanderthals-same-species-as-us.html

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Videos

When Antarctica Was Green (during the Eocene)
PBS Eons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC4WiBCoVeo

Paul & Xu - Encounters in China | A China Icons Video
Professor Xu Xing of Beijing and Professor Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum in London are two of the worldâs most highly respected palaeontologists. Theyâre also close friends who have worked together for more than 20 years.Â

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnNCw-9K_bI