Ben Creisler
Some recent items:
Some dinosaur and other fossil vertebrate papers now free online:
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The sale has now happened so it can be posted on the DML...
Dino-flation and sale to wealthy private collectors at fossil auctions continues...
Allosaurus skeleton from Wyoming sold at auction in France to a private owner for equivalent in euros of US $3.52 million, more than three times the expected price. The fossil was touted as "the grandfather of Tyrannosaurus rex"...
Also, an update on the situation with the privately owned Arkhane theropod skeleton (claimed to be a new species) that was sold at auction to a private owner in 2014 and is currently on display at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Âin Brussels
Will T. rex STAN remain accessible to the public and to science? [mainly about Arkhane, though]
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More on Stan sale...
A T. Rex Sold for $31.8 Million and Paleontologists Are Worried
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Accidental 3-D anaglyphs of sauropod vertebra
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Leptostomia pterosaur beak
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Worldâs greatest mass extinction triggered switch to warm-bloodedness in two major groups of tetrapods
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Fossilized teeth reveal first mammals were far from warm blooded
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American Museum of Natural History Hall Tour â Saurischian Dinosaurs (video)
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T. rex, Triceratops skull casts arrive at Mace Brown Museum of Natural History at the College of CharlestonÂ
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Artist L. P. Jonas' grandson offers to save deteriorated Triceratops in
Sculpture Garden park in Windsor, Ontario; Triceratops is likely later copy of Sinclair World's Fair Dinoland model made by Jonas, the original artist
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How heavy is your Pet Dinosaur?
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Non-dino:
How rodents the size of bears arrived in the Caribbean
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Nearly Half of South America's Mammals Came from North America
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Double whammy doomed Madagascarâs giant birds and mammals