[dinosaur] Anchisaurus skull + Psittacosaurus joke gone wrong + Malawania + crocodylomorphs + more

Ben Creisler

Some recent items:

Anchisaurus: A sauropod skull story â the long version

https://news.yale.edu/2021/04/14/sauropod-skull-story-long-version

Posted earlier, now in final form:

Matteo Fabbri, Guillermo NavalÃn, NicolÃs Mongiardino Koch, Michael Hanson, Holger Petermann & BhartâAnjan Bhullar (2021)
A shift in ontogenetic timing produced the unique sauropod skull.
Evolution 75(4): 819-831
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14190
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.14190

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Majungasaurus "lips" and skull decoration
The God of Comparative Anatomy is generous if we know how to honor him (in Italian)

http://theropoda.blogspot.com/2021/04/il-dio-dellanatomia-comparata-e.html

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Psittacosaurus sibiricus: "Lovers" from the Mesozoic (in Russian)
How a joke that two Psittacosaurus skeletons found together in Siberia supposedly died in the act of love got into the media as real, and even ended up in books...

https://elementy.ru/kartinka_dnya/1344/Lyubovniki_iz_mezozoya

Tiny cat-sized stegosaur leaves its mark

http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2021/04/tiny-cat-sized-stegosaur-leaves-its-mark

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Unique Bone Structure Helped Long-Necked Pterosaurs Fly

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/unique-bone-structure-helped-long-necked-pterosaurs-fly-180977521/

History of the Iraqi Ichthyosaur - Letâs talk about Malawania!

http://tetzoo.com/blog/2021/4/16/history-of-the-iraqi-ichthyosaur

Palaeocast Episode 124: Crocodylomorph Disparity

https://www.palaeocast.com/crocodylomorph-disparity/

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Dinosaurs: from giant reptiles to warm-blooded, feathered creatures, how our understanding of what they looked like has changed â podcast

https://theconversation.com/dinosaurs-from-giant-reptiles-to-warm-blooded-feathered-creatures-how-our-understanding-of-what-they-looked-like-has-changed-podcast-158905

[NOTE: Some paleoartists are taking objection to some of the content...]

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Jurassic art redux

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/welcome-to-jurassic-art-redux/

Tallest dinosaur in South-Eastern Europe on display at Romaniaâs Dino Parc

https://www.romania-insider.com/diplodocus-dinosaur-dino-parc-romania

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Non-dino:

The evolution of plants

https://morethanadodo.com/2021/04/13/the-evolution-of-plants/

Leonardo and the fossil whale

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2021/04/15/leonardo-and-the-fossil-whale/

Fossil shark specimen controversy

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/ancient-shark-fossil-exquisite-some-researchers-wonder-if-they-ll-be-able-study-it

See:

Erratum for the Report âManta-like planktivorous sharks in Late Cretaceous oceansâ by R. Vullo, E. Frey, C. Ifrim, M. A. GonzÃlez GonzÃlez, E. S. Stinnesbeck, W. Stinnesbeck
Science 372(6539): Âeabi9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.abi9203
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6539/eabi9203

In the Report âhttps://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6535/1253,â the authors stated that the holotype of Aquilolamna milarcae will be exhibited in the Museo La Milarca in San Pedro Garza GarcÃa, Mexico. The museum was originally planned to be opened in the summer of 2021, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the opening is now postponed to the end of 2021. Owing to this delay, the authors have updated their paper to indicate that until the opening of the Museo La Milarca, the fossil will be housed at the Museo del Desierto in Saltillo, Mexico, as of 1 May 2021, where it will be available to researchers for scientific purposes. In addition, they are updating their reproducibility checklist and supplementary materials with additional information about fossil documentation and availability.

'Godzilla shark' fossil found in New Mexico

https://www.abqjournal.com/2380616/godzilla-shark-fossil-found-in-nm-ex-remains-of-one-of-the-states-earliest-residents-were-found-in-the-manzano-mountains.html

Videos:

Birds are Avian Dinosaurs with Robin Whatley
Homewood Science Center

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fMzanBzIg8

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Darren Tanke: Successful Efforts to Relocate Century-Old Dinosaur Quarries in the Badlands of Southern Alberta
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6YlIAm_0eE

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Old News Ep. 18: China's Treasure Trove of Fossils
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te4piM_38fs

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Triceratops: Chipping away at the past
Museums Victoria Australia

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

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Herb the Triceratops
Witte Museum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmhPxKBmmI0

And update before Herb goes to Great Plains Dinosaur Museum...

https://twitter.com/WitteMuseum/status/1383074612834013186

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Museum of the Rockies
Savage Ancient Seas Member Exhibit Opening