[dinosaur] Utahraptor + Dino-odor + K-Pg impact fires + Edops + more

Ben Creisler

Some recent items:

Preparation of the Utahraptor Megablock Âwith Scott Madsen (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0rXWLHwK0E&feature=youtu.be

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But Utahraptor block needs new home before March 1...

https://www.facebook.com/1740182959575280/photos/a.1741428289450747/2424053837854852/?type=3&theater

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What did dinosaurs smell like?

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/what-did-dinosaurs-smell-like/

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Bushfires have reshaped life on Earth before. They could do it again (the way it happen after the K-Pg impact and firestorms...)

https://theconversation.com/bushfires-have-reshaped-life-on-earth-before-they-could-do-it-again-129344

Nullotitan (in Spanish)

Argentina: Descubren restos de un dinosaurio hervÃboro
Un grupo de paleontÃlogos del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" es responsable del gran hallazgo en Calafate.

https://www.nationalgeographicla.com/historia/2020/01/argentina-descubren-restos-de-un-dinosaurio-herviboro

https://fundaciondinosaurioscyl.blogspot.com/2020/01/fosiles-en-patagonia-pueden-arrojar-luz.html

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Titanosaurs from Iberian Peninsula...
SaurÃpodos titanosaurios de la penÃnsula ibÃrica en el 63rd Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association

http://godzillin.blogspot.com/2020/01/sauropodos-titanosaurios-de-la.html

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Bones from Angeac-Charente "mimo" dinosaur...

https://petitcarnetpaleo.blogspot.com/2020/01/les-premiers-ptits-os-2020-prepares-par.html

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Ancient sea turtle fossil found in Alabama named new genus, species

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2020/01/ancient-sea-turtle-fossil-found-in-alabama-named-new-genus-species.html

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Temnospondyls: A new year of gluttony: Edops

https://bryangee.weebly.com/blog/a-new-year-of-gluttony-edops

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Note that Romer said the meaning of the name Edops is "swollen face"--so his etymology would be from Greek oidos "swelling":

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Doi)%3Ddos

The Latinized spelling could be oedo- or edo-, the same way Greek oikos "house" became eco- in ecology, economics, etc.

However, the spelling also looks like Latin edo, meaning a glutton, thus the confusion over the meaning of the name.Â

How fish fins evolved just before the transition to land

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/how-fish-fins-evolved-just-transition-land

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Hesahm Sallam: Hunting fossils in the Egyptian desert--mammals and dinosaurs (in German)

https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/palaeontologe-in-aegypten-vom-glueck-einen-saurier-zu-finden-a-98fad37a-0460-452b-af20-4fbca0f905b2