Patagonia, Land of Giants + theropod lifting power + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Patagonia, Land of the Giants-- dinosaur research at Paleontological
Museum Egidio Feruglio (MEF) in Argentina; click to expand sauropod
poster (in Spanish)



http://quo.mx/revista-quo/2015/04/29/patagonia-tierra-de-gigantes

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Theropod lifting power---Carcharodontosaurus vs. sauropod

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27454-could-these-giant-dinosaurs-have-lifted-up-their-pictured-prey.html


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Sexual dimorphism or growth changes in dinosaurs? (in German)


http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/stegosaurier-geschlechtsunterschiede-nachgewiesen-a-1031080.html


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Photos of Bolivian dinosaur tracks



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3062345/Keeping-track-s-time-Footprints-left-dinosaurs-68-million-years-ago-steep-vertical-rock-face.html


http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2015-04/30/c_127753504.htm



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Tom Holtz talk

http://www.sesync.org/events-announcements/cafe-scientifique-thomas-holtz

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Yi qi as a friendly looking bat-bird....

http://johnconway.co/yi-qi


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Dino-dogs...

With word that Jurassic World used people as stand-ins for its CGI
dinosaurs, using performance capture, here are dogs made up as
dinosaurs (cats would never submit to this I suspect)...


http://metro.co.uk/2015/05/01/people-are-dressing-their-dogs-up-as-dinosaurs-and-its-pretty-bloody-hilarious-5176263/