[dinosaur] Australian dino print damaged + Zuul + Almas + ornithopod CT + more

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Vandals use hammer to damage 115-million-year-old dinosaur footprint near Inverloch in Australia

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-20/dinosaur-footprint-damaged-by-vandals-inverloch/9275060

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Top 10 Open Access Fossil taxa of 2017: Zuul crurivastator

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2017/12/19/top-10-open-access-fossil-taxa-of-2017-zuul-crurivastator/

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Almas the troodontid

https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/research-posts/new-dinosaur-named-for-yeti-of-mongolian-mythology

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A Flock of Flaplings: A pterosaur nesting ground is a bonanza for paleontologists

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/a-flock-of-flaplings/

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Utah Tyrannosaur Discovered After 76 Million-Year Slumber

https://nhmu.utah.edu/blog/2017/tyrannosaur

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How shrinking national monuments in Utah will affect science

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-shrinking-fossil-rich-national-monuments-means-for-science-180967584/

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Would Tyrannosaurus survive in the modern world? (in Spanish)

http://www.neoteo.com/sucederia-liberamos-tyrannosaurus-rex-ecosistema-moderno/

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Ornithopod fossil from Spain gets CT scan at hospital (in Spanish)

Âhttp://www.lne.es/gijon/2017/12/20/dinosaurio-quintin-rayos-x/2211617.html

http://www.elbuscolu.com/noticias-colunga-lastres/dos-bloques-con-fsiles-de-dinosaurios-de-la-coleccin-del-muja-se-escanearn-en-un-hospital-veterinario-de-gijn/27821

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âDinosaurios hoyâ exhibit at the Museo del Desierto de Coahuila in Mexico

http://ljz.mx/2017/12/19/abren-exposicion-dinosaurios-hoy-en-el-cozcyt-proviene-del-museo-del-desierto-de-coahuila/

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HalszkaraptorÂ videos

Synchrotron sheds light on the amphibious lifestyle of a new raptorial dinosaur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKszxx-tiAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzShBB1oX6w

unedited interviews

Paul TAFFOREAU on Haszkaraptor in English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc5B5SD8ghM

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Andrea CAU speaking about Haszkaraptor in English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc5B5SD8ghM

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Mesozoic ticks (in Czech)

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2017/12/19/druhohorni-klistata/Â Tom

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Winter Dinoland in Zwolle, Netherlands, features Tyrannosaurus (in Dutch)

https://indebuurt.nl/zwolle/doen/leer-alles-over-de-tyrannosaurus-tijdens-de-unieke-t-rexpositie-in-winter-dinoland~16268/

https://dinoland.nl/?_sp=6359cc19-ec8a-4f13-ba19-d8c98bb2f7cb.1513803804502

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non-dino...

The incredible journey of the first African tortoise that arrived in Europe during Cretaceous

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-incredible-journey-african-tortoise-europe.html

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video

PBS Eons: When Giant Fungi Ruled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G64DagHuOg

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