[dinosaur] Polar dinosaurs + Suciasaurus + Mary Anning statue + more

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

A few more items (a kind of stocking stuffer...)

Christmas greetings from the Late Cretaceous "polar" dinosaurs (Prince Creek Formation) (in Czech)

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2020/12/21/vanocni-pozdrav-z-pozdni-kridy/

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Talk by Christian Sidor about Washington State's first dinosaur fossil "Suciasaurus" (video)

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CIoIZ3IAmdN/

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Naturally Curious With Bob Alderink - T. rex: A Mighty Bite

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDwBiPlcsr8

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Some additional details and developments about the Ubirajara controversy (in Portuguese)

The public worker who signed the authorization to export Ubirajara says that he does not recall any dinosaur specimen in the crates offered for inspection and suggests that the dinosaur might have been added afterwards...

https://br.sputniknews.com/ciencia_tecnologia/2020122116652468-pode-ter-sido-armacao-diz-geologo-que-autorizou-saida-do-brasil-de-fossil-do-ubirajara-jubatus/

Also:ÂÂ

https://br.sputniknews.com/ciencia_tecnologia/2020122316664849-apos-polemica-artigo-com-descricao-do-dinossauro-ubirajara-jubatus-e-suspenso-de-revista-cientifica/

https://revistagalileu.globo.com/Ciencia/noticia/2020/12/apos-polemica-artigo-sobre-novo-dinossauro-brasileiro-e-despublicado.html

https://www.opovo.com.br/noticias/ceara/2020/12/18/tem-gente--em-pleno-seculo-xxi--pilhando-o-nosso-patrimonio---diz-paleontologo-cearense-sobre-trafico-de-fosseis.html

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Forthcoming book Sauropods (with animation)
by Ted Rechlin and Cary Woodruff

https://twitter.com/rextoothstudios/status/1342505269297704961

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From fins to limbs and water to land

Harvard scientists reconstruct the evolution of terrestrial movement in early tetrapods

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/11/reconstructing-vertebrates-rise-from-the-water-to-land/

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Mary Anning statue funding update with video

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/maryanningrocks

Museum of Natural History London television series
Susie Maidment uncovers dinosaur skull from Lesotho

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/press-office/press-releases/natural-history-museum-to-star-in-brand-new-channel-5-series.html

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EurekAlert's Top 10 news releases for 2020Â

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-12/e-n1n121820.php

On the list:

6. New Cretaceous Jehol fossil sheds light on evolution of ancestral mammalian middle ear (159,221)
Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Science Review

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/caos-ncj082620.php

10. New species of Allosaurus discovered in Utah (135,110)
University of Utah, PeerJ

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/uou-nso012220.php

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Non-dino, but may be fitting for the day...

The Real Santa Claus | Sanctacaris (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZCKgN-I0nQ