Biggest displayed mosasaur is in Canada and other news

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com

A number of recent news items:


World's "biggest" displayed mosasaur (13 meters long) at  Canadian
Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden, Manitoba

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/bruce-the-mosasaur-in-manitoba-now-largest-on-display-in-the-world-1.2707220

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Giant Pterosaurs Serve as Aircraft Inspiration

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/giant-pterosaurs-serve-as-aircraft-inspiration/

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More news stories about Changyuraptor

http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/news/medical/140715DINO.php?=marquee2

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140715-four-winged-raptor-dinosaur-science/

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Dinosaur coprolites found in Madhya Pradesh in India

http://www.dnaindia.com/science-and-technology/report-rare-fossilised-feces-of-dinosaurs-found-in-madhya-pradesh-2002039


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Dinosaur tracks found in Sonora, Mexico (in Spanish)

http://e-veracruz.mx/nota/2014-07-15/ciencia/reportan-primer-registro-de-huellas-de-dinosaurio-en-sonora

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Walter Scott Persons  arrives in Río Gallegos in Argentina to study
fossils of ornithopod Talenkauen santacrucensis (in Spanish)

http://www.tiemposur.com.ar/nota/71919-arrib%C3%B3-paleont%C3%B3logo-para-estudiar-al-talenkauen-santacrucensis

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Dinosaurs of Ischigualasto exhibit opens in Valle Fértil in Argentina
(in Spanish)

http://www.sanjuan8.com/sanjuan/Valle-Fertil-ya-cuenta-con-su-segunda-muestra-permanente-de-dinosaurios--20140708-0029.html

http://www.diariolaprovinciasj.com/sociedad/2014/7/9/inauguraron-muestra-permanente-dinosaurios-ischigualasto-15596.html



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PODCASTS

Richard Butler audio interview, including news of primitive
ornithischian from Early Jurassic of Venezuela

https://audioboo.fm/boos/2303025-dr-richard-butler-a-new-found-dinosaur-discoveries-from-the-jurassic

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Past Time podcast about Australian sauropod tracks and other dinosaur traces

http://www.pasttime.org/?podcast=episode-13-following-in-the-footsteps-of-dinosaurs


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French podcast/radio broadcast about Charente dinosaur dig

http://www.franceinter.fr/emission-le-zoom-de-la-redaction-il-y-a-130-millions-d-annees-les-dinosaures

Discusses mystery of why ornithomimosaur skeletons are not articulated
but nearly all the bones are preserved; apparently a case of mired
animals


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Fedducia paper now in open access

If anybody is interested (?), "Jurassic archosaur is a non-dinosaurian
bird" is now in give-away mode:


http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10336-014-1098-9