Students' favorite dinosaurs + best college museums + feathered dinosaur exhibits + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent news and blog items:


Students' favorite dinosaurs

https://mogcollections.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/dinosaurs/

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Best college museums include dinosaur exhibits

http://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2015/04/uw-geological-museum-ranked-among-nations-most-amazing.html

http://www.collegerank.net/most-amazing-college-museums/

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Top dinosaur spots to visit in Utah

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=1268&sid=34152277



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Feathered dinosaur exhibits in Germany and France

Feathered dinosaur exhibit in Münster, Germany (in German)

Dinosaurier - Die Urzeit lebt ["Dinosaurs -- Prehistory Lives "]

http://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/lwl-naturkunde/naturkundemuseum/ausstellungen/dinosaurier-die-urzeit-lebt

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Designing exhibits

http://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/lwl-naturkunde/naturkundemuseum/ausstellungen/dinosaurier-die-urzeit-lebt/fb-design-dinosaurier

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Velociraptor model

http://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/lwl-naturkunde/naturkundemuseum/ausstellungen/dinosaurier-die-urzeit-lebt/velociraptor
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Creating Epidexipteryx model

http://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/lwl-naturkunde/naturkundemuseum/ausstellungen/dinosaurier-die-urzeit-lebt/epidexipteryx

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Citipati model

http://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/lwl-naturkunde/naturkundemuseum/ausstellungen/dinosaurier-die-urzeit-lebt/citipati

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"Plumes de dinosaure!" [Dinosaur Feathers!] at Nantes in France (in French)

http://www.20minutes.fr/nantes/1582279-20150408-nantes-visite-plumes-dinosaure-nouvelle-expo-museum-histoire-naturelle

with video

http://www.nantes.maville.com/actu/actudet_-au-museum-de-nantes-plumes-de-dinosaure-a-ne-pas-manquer_52716-2749172_actu.Htm


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Interview with Éric Buffetaut about dinosaurs of Normandy (in French)

http://www.lecourrierdeleure.fr/2015/04/08/intereview-la-normandie-terre-de-dinosaures/

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Preserving dinosaur track site at Plagne, near Lyon, France (in French)


http://www.bienpublic.com/cote-d-or/2015/04/06/0n-avance-a-pas-de-fourmis-au-pays-des-dinosaures

http://www.ledauphine.com/ain/2015/04/05/dinoplagne-on-avance-a-pas-de-fourmis-au-pays-des-dinosaures

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Yet more ponderous ponderings on Brontosaurus. As pointed out, restudy
of some famous mounted specimens may lead to more revisions (and maybe
new names)


http://dinogoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-brontosaurus-club.html

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Mark Witton looks at Sharovipteryx and Mamenchisaurus

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-weird-awesome-and-weirdly-awesome.html



http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2015/04/mamenchisaurus-youngi-presents-money.html


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Earliest (Jurassic) flowering plant controversy

http://www.livescience.com/50419-oldest-flower-fossil-angiosperm.html