[dinosaur] Complete Triceratops at Melbourne Museum + dinosaurs in snow + Parasaurolophus + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Well preserved and nearly complete Triceratops skeleton from private land in Montana bought for $3 million by Melbourne Museum in Australia for future display in 2021; said to most complete specimen ever found, including skin and tendonsÂ

with video:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-02/worlds-best-triceratops-skeleton-to-go-on-display-in-melbourne/12944344

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/extremely-enigmatic-melbourne-museum-secures-world-leading-triceratops-fossil-20201202-p56jwz.html

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/02/melbourne-museum-acquires-worlds-most-complete-triceratops-skeleton-in-immense-dinosaur-deal

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/12/02/near-complete-triceratops-skeleton-lon-orig-na.cnn

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Dakota the Edmontosaurus specimen changed paleontologists' understanding (now on display at State Historical Society of North Dakota)

https://www.willistonherald.com/community/dakota-the-dinosaur-changed-paleontologists-understanding/article_83abdf0a-2dc2-11eb-8dd2-4f5fd13d1d9e.html

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How Dinosaurs Thrived in the Snow
Discoveries made in the past decades help show how many species coped with cold temperatures near both poles

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-dinosaurs-thrived-snow-180976435/

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Parasaurolophus holotype may have been killed by falling tree

 https://www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/IconicDinosaursinjuriescometolightthroughQueens-ledresearch.htmlÂÂ

http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2020/12/parasaurolophus.html

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Tyrannosaurs suffered from osteomyelitis (in Czech)

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2020/12/03/krale-dinosauru-trapil-zanet-kostni-drene/ (with original artwork by Vladimir Rimbala)

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Palaeocast (podcast)
Episode 118: South African Sauropodomorphs

https://www.palaeocast.com/south-african-sauropodomorphs/

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More on ErythrovenatorÂ

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/new-dinosaur-was-one-of-the-earliest-vicious-theropods

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Carnotaurus (in Russian)

https://elementy.ru/kartinka_dnya/1272/Rogatyy_karnotavr

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How to weigh a dinosaur (in Chinese)

http://www.uua.cn/show-11-11167-1.html

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New Europasaurus book: What was life for dinosaurs like in Europe?

https://pressemitteilungen.pr.uni-halle.de/index.php?modus=pmanzeige&pm_id=5135

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-12/mh-wwl120220.php

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Sad news:

Paleontologist William Clemens, expert on fossil mammals at UC Berkeley, dies at 88

https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/12/01/william-clemens-expert-on-fossil-mammals-dies-at-88/

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Paleontologist Mary Dawson, fossil mammal expert at Carnegie Museum, has died at 89

https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/19142052/Dr-Mary-Dawson

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Spanish paleontologist Josà Ãngel Torres has died at 61; discovered dinosaurs and coauthored the book "La Rioja de los dinosaurios. Un ecosistema de hace 120 millones de aÃos" (in Spanish)

https://fundaciondinosaurioscyl.blogspot.com/2020/12/fallece-el-paleontologo-jose-angel.html

http://www.aranzadi.eus/wp-content/files_mf/13720681661406TeInteresaDinosaurios.pdf

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Papers with Uniform Resource Identifiers: Cool URIs donât change

https://svpow.com/2020/11/26/cool-uris-dont-change/

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India's fossil heritage is vast. It's also under threat.

https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2020/1202/India-s-fossil-heritage-is-vast.-It-s-also-under-threat

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Palauchelys, new pleurodire turtle from Cretaceous of Mexico (in Spanish)

http://godzillin.blogspot.com/2020/12/palauchelys-una-nueva-pleurodira-del.html

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Videos:

How Humans Lost Their Fur
PBS Eons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E76vqlhmBlc

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What Was Earth Like 3 Billion Years Ago?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chOXnnT7eEk

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