[dinosaur-l] Birds as Dinosaurs Among Us + Caviramus + podcasts + more

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

More on The Dinosaurs Among Us exhibit at AMNH

Birds Really Are Dinosaurs, Explained

http://www.newsweek.com/birds-really-are-dinosaurs-explained-437168

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photo gallery with 43 images (including feathered non-dino Effigia!); click to expand

http://www.livescience.com/54045-amnh-dinosaurs-among-us-exhibit-photos.html

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Caviramus, an early example of an anatomically 'extreme' pterosaur

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/the-magnificent-caviramus-early-example.html

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Cleveland Museum of Natural History's iconic Stegosaurus ('Steggie') sculpture to be removed for repairs (vintage photos gallery)

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/03/cleveland_museum_of_natural_hi_2.html

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Timurlengia and the ghost of Megaraptoridae (in Italian)

http://theropoda.blogspot.com/2016/03/timurlengia-ed-il-fantasma-dei.html

http://theropoda.blogspot.com/2008/10/immagine-in-aggiunta-al-precedente-post.html

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Turiasaurus still holds record for largest sauropod forelimb other than Brachiosaurus/Giraffatitan (in Spanish)

http://www.heraldo.es/noticias/suplementos/tercer-milenio/investigacion/2016/03/15/un-fosil-record-patagonia-aragonesa-teruel-818375-2121029.html

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Dinosaurs vs. Whales: What Is the Largest Animal of All Time?

http://samnoblemuseum.ou.edu/calendar/dinosaurs-past-and-present-lecture-series-matt-wedel/

http://svpow.com/2016/03/14/sv-pow-on-the-road-matts-public-lecture-at-the-oklahoma-museum-of-natural-history/

Terrifying theropod Sue

http://dinosaurusblog.com/2016/03/14/straslivy-teropod-zuzanka/

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What will future paleontologist find when most species that disappear today will leave no trace in the fossil record?

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/most-species-disappear-today-will-leave-no-trace-fossil-record

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12589/full

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What Sort of Animal is Gephyrostegus?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/what-sort-of-animal-is-gephyrostegus/

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Podcasts

Some recent and not so recent podcasts:

David Button from the University of Birmingham, about the techniques palaeontologists use to deduce diet from fossils, including dinosaurs

http://www.palaeocast.com/episode-60-determining-diet/

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Ronny Rößler, director of the Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz, about Chemnitz Permian petrified forest in Germany

http://www.palaeocast.com/episode-59-chemnitz-petrified-forest/

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I Know Dino podcasts from 2015

Not yet mentioned on the DML are archived audio interviews with paleontologists

http://iknowdino.com/

These are also being posted on YouTube.

Jim Kirkland about Utahraptor

http://iknowdino.com/i-know-dino-podcast-show-notes-utahraptor-episode-34/

Phil Currie about Tarbosaurus (with transcript)

http://iknowdino.com/i-know-dino-podcast-tarbosaurus-episode-4/

Pete Larson about Tyrannosaurus

http://iknowdino.com/know-dino-podcast-episode-1/

Jack Horner about Maiasaura

http://iknowdino.com/i-know-dino-podcast-show-notes-maiasaura-episode-37/

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Anthony J. Martin about Oryctodromeus (with transcript)

http://iknowdino.com/know-dino-podcast-episode-2/

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