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[dinosaur] Titanosaurs + Halszkaraptor + dinosaur art contest + Utah dinosaur tracks + more




Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Your Friends The Titanosaurs, part 22: Paludititan, Panamericansaurus, and Paralititan

https://equatorialminnesota.blogspot.com/2020/03/your-friends-titanosaurs-22-paludititan-panamericansaurus-paralititan.html


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Halszkaraptor: The curious case of Mongoliaâs missing dinosaur fossil and how it made its way home
John Pickrell
(from New Scientist but not paywalled here)

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3074950/curious-case-mongolias-missing-dinosaur-fossil


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How to sex a dinosaur

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-to-sex-a-dinosaur.html

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Steve Brusatte Âon Science Friday NPR show (audio)
Walking With The Dinosaurs Of Scotlandâs Isle Of Skye


https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/dinosaur-tracks-isle-of-skye/

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Fossil footprints show stegosaurs left their mark on Scottish isle
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2020/footprints-show-stegosaurs-left-mark-on-skyeÂÂ

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/uoe-ffs030920.php

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Stegosaurus Tracks Discovered on Scotlandâs Isle of Skye

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/11/stegosaurus-footprints-found-on-isle-of-skye

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The five dinosaurs that once roamed the British Isles

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/15/the-five-dinosaurs-that-once-roamed-the-british-isles-stegosaurus

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Birds of the Jehol Biota

https://fossilhuntress.blogspot.com/2020/03/birds-of-jehol-biota.html

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Confounding Confuciusornis

https://fossilhuntress.blogspot.com/2020/03/confounding-confuciusornis.html

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Theropods of a Feather

https://fossilhuntress.blogspot.com/2020/03/theropods-of-feather.html


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Oculudentavis

Royal Saskatchewan Museum paleontologist marvels at new species considered smallest dinosaur on fossil record

https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/sask-paleontologist-marvels-at-new-species-considered-smallest-dinosaur-on-fossil-record/

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Dwarf theropod from Burmese amber: in Czech

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2020/03/13/miniaturni-teropod-z-barmskeho-jantaru/

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A little more Luchibang (new pterosaur)

https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2020/03/11/a-little-more-luchibang/


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German Cretaceous plesiosaur

https://www.miragenews.com/ancient-sea-reptile-remains-rediscovered-in-museum-collection-after-75-years/

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Paleontologist Leonardo Salgado participated in some of the most important dinosaur finds in Argentina (in Spanish)

https://www.clarin.com/zonales/adrogue-descubrir-dinosaurios-gigantes-patagonia_0_i3bkK1CO.html

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Landslide destroys 30 dinosaur tracks at site in Tarija in Bolivia (in Spanish)

https://eldeber.com.bo/169367_un-derrumbe-destruye-30-pisadas-de-dinosaurios-en-tarija

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FundaciÃn para el Estudio de los Dinosaurios:
12th International Dinosaur Scientific Illustration Contest 2020
XII CONCURSO INTERNACIONAL DE ILUSTRACIONES CIENTÃFICAS DE DINOSAURIOS 2020

https://fundaciondinosaurioscyl.blogspot.com/2020/03/xii-concurso-internacional-de.html

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Rules

http://www.fundaciondinosaurioscyl.com/es/c/?iddoc=2115

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150 Million Years After Death, A Brontosaurus To Get Posture Fixed At Peabody Museum

https://www.wnpr.org/post/150-million-years-after-death-brontosaurus-get-posture-fixed-peabody-museum

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Videos:

Utah State Paleontologist Jim Kirkland on St. George Dinosaur Discovery track site in Utah

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

70 minutes

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Finding, preparing, and casting dinosaur skeletons (including for AMNH, Smithsonian, Yale Peabody, and more)

Restoring and Preserving Paleontological Specimens - Jan 21 2020
Speaker Peter May, President and Founder of Research Casting International in Trenton, Ontario, Canada.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ9F9ZFl4tc

67 min.

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CT Âscanning fossils

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arkhb6rFexsÂÂ

(One of the talks is blocked to public release.)

Of particular interest to the DML...
talk starts at 1:10 to end

Vincent Fernandez from Natural History Museum, London:
Digging virtually into large fossils using synchrotron X-ray microtomography
(includes dinosaurs and other vertebrate fossils)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arkhb6rFexs

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Also:
starts at 0:23 Âto 0:50

Lee Berger from University of the Witwatersrand
10 Years of Synchrotron and Australopithecus sediba

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Brachiosaurus Humerus Announcement at the Utah Field House of Natural History Museum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMemvPf5jmc

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Brachiosaurus Humerus Arrival, Unloading, and Cast Signing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDDS5_A2DFw

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non-dino


The Smallest Mammal Ever?

https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-smallest-mammal-ever.html

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Biggest Smilodon skull

http://presstories.com/2020/03/15/they-knew-that-saber-toothed-tigers-were-big-then-they-found-this-skull/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/science/saber-toothed-tiger.html

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Fossil penguin skin found in Argentina

https://www.nst.com.my/world/world/2020/03/574576/skin-43-million-year-old-penguin-found-argentina

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