Ben CreislerSome recent items:Fossil Friday Roundup: November 11, 2016====When is a fossil a fossil? by Phil Manning=====Guided video tours of dinosaur track sites around Moab, Utah=====Sauropod back claws formed a "hoe" for digging, a follow-up to a video posted a few days back from the Cleveland Museum:based on this ref:Hall, Lee E., Ashley E. Fragomeni, and Denver W. Fowler (2016). "The Flexion of Sauropod Pedal Unguals and Testing the Substrate Grip Hypothesis Using the Trackway Fossil Record." In Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps, edited by Falkingham Peter L., Marty Daniel, and Richter Annette, 139-51. Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016.Note that most of this chapter can be previewed in Google books starting on page 139 (with some blanked-out pages):===More on Cleveland Museum Dinofest===More on 300 pterosaur tracks discovered at Praia da Peralta in Portugal in 2010; now have been studied in a thesis (Simon Kongshøj Callesen: "New Pterosaur Tracks (Pteraichnidae) from the Late Jurassic of Praia da Peralta, Portugal"); tracks show quadrupedal gait and are bigger than any Jurassic pterosaurs known from fossil bones; with audio from Octávio Mateus (in Portuguese)I posted this blog link earlier:Discovered in 2010 and now described in a doctoral thesis====Xu Xing interview about using dinosaur research to inspire interest in science in children (in Chinese)===Early mammal tooth function===More on paleoart===Dinosauromorphs from Brazil