[dinosaur] Day the Dinosaurs Died + Borealopelta + flocking theropods + Mongolian fossils + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

A reminder that "The Day the Dinosaurs Died" airs on NOVA tonight...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/day-dinosaurs-died.html

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Top 10 Open Access Fossil taxa of 2017: Borealopelta markmitchelli

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2017/12/27/top-10-open-access-fossil-taxa-of-2017-borealopelta-markmitchelli/

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Parallel theropod trackways in Mexico may preserve a social moment in dinosaur history

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/dinosaurs-of-a-feather/Â Â Â

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Recovering smuggled Mongolian dinosaur fossils

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/second-life-of-mongolian-fossils/548558/Â

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The difficult task of deciphering the worldâs first known digging dinosaur

https://2newthings.com/the-difficult-task-of-deciphering-the-worlds-first-known-digging-dinosaur/

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Vegaviidae, A Group Of Modern Birds That Survived Dinosaur Extinction

https://sciencetrends.com/vegaviidae-group-modern-birds-survived-dinosaur-extinction/

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130 million-year-old dinosaur egg fossils discovered in Jiangxi in China, with photos

http://www.ecns.cn/visual/hd/2017/12-26/149988.shtmlÂ

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Non-dino....

Ancient dung samples are being used to figure out how the mammoth went extinct and how the Americas were populated.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/mastodon-dung-new-zealand/530613/

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Reconstructing the Indricotherium (in Russian)

https://elementy.ru/kartinka_dnya/487/Indrikoteriy_i_ego_rekonstruktsii

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