[dinosaur] Seeds saved birds after K-Pg extinction + new tyrannosaur book + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Seeds saved birds after K-Pg extinction (the official paper is not yet posted on the Current Biology website)

http: // phys.org/news/2016-04-fossil-teeth-seeds-bird-ancestors.html

http: // www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/04/21/the-reason-birds-lived-when-the-dinosaurs-died-nuts-scientists-say.html

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New Tyrannosaur book "Tyrannosaur Chronicles"

https: // archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2016/04/21/the-tyrannosaur-chronicles-is-here/

http: // www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160412-busting-common-misconceptions-about-tyrannosaurs

http: // www.gotscience.org/book-review-tyrannosaur-chronicles/

http: // www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/qmuo-qpc041916.php

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Tito the titanosaur from Italy (in Italian)

http: // theropoda.blogspot.com/2016/04/nuntio-vobis-dinosaurum-magnum-habemus.html

 

http: // www.rivistanatura.com/tito-dinosauro-in-italia-112-milioni-di-anni-fa/

http: // laprovinciapavese.gelocal.it/tempo-libero/2016/04/20/news/tito-il-titanosauro-di-sei-metri-e-600-chili-dei-monti-prenestini-1.13334678

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Campfire may have damaged British Columbia tyrannosaur track (with audio)

 

http: // www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rare-dinosaur-footprint-may-have-been-damaged-by-campfire-1.3544777

 

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Theropod statue commemorates flood that revealed dinosaur tracks in Comanche County, Texas (with video)

 

http: // www.ktxs.com/news/comanche-city-park-to-get-dinosaur-statue-to-honor-history/39132378

Old description of tracks

https: // sites.smu.edu/shulermuseum/publication_pdfs/field_lab/Albritton1942.pdf

 

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Smuggled dinosaur fossils going back to Mongolia

http: // www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/14/feds-nab-illegal-tyrannosaurus-rex-skull.html

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Effects of K-Pg asteroid strike

http: // www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160415-what-really-happened-when-the-dino-killer-asteroid-struck

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Rise of mammals after dinosaur extinction

http: // planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/features/story.aspx?id=1809