[dinosaur] French plesiosaur + Archaeopteryx VR + Chenanisaurus + Engineering a Dinosaur talk + alligator growth + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Large Cretaceous plesiosaur fossils found in Anjou region of France, including 1 m-long lower jaw; may be new species (in French)

jaw photo:

http://www.angers.villactu.fr/decouverte-paleontologique-remarquable-anjou-grand-predateur-marin-age-de-90-millions-dannees/

with video

http://www.angers.fr/actualites/le-fossile-exceptionnel-d-un-predateur-marin-decouvert-en-anjou/

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Archaeopteryx and Deinonychus arms in virtual reality

Archaeopteryx video

http://news.usf.edu/article/templates/?a=7837&z=220&utm_source=dinosaur-vr-050217&utm_campaign=usfhomepage&utm_medium=widget

Deinonychus video

https://cvast.usf.edu/projects/digital-dinosaurs/

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https://phys.org/news/2017-05-paleontologists-dinosaurs-virtual-reality.html

http://www.techradar.com/news/this-paleontologist-is-building-interactive-3d-dinosaur-holograms

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Chenanisaurus -- 'Last African dinosaur' discovered in Moroccan mine

http://www.bath.ac.uk/news/2017/05/04/last-african-dino/

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-african-dinosaur-moroccan.html

video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kgB1EC5sG8

 

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video

Engineering a Dinosaur_March17

Geological Society 

talk by Emily Rayfield, University of Bristol 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhW4Cg7Yfuw

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videos

The Utahraptor Project: A Progress Report by Scott Madsen

Utah Friends of Paleontology UFOP

talk:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZXKTH3gy7M

more videos

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn6svth4sbQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V-YWdtqMZQ

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videos 

T. rex SUE skull (FMNH PR 2081) - time lapse of WitmerLab work

Time-lapse video of Emily Caggiano, Ruger Porter, and I studying the original fossil skull of the Tyrannosaurus rex specimen (FMNH PR 2081) known as Sue this past Wednesday at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LNq9A_Oj6c

T. rex SUE rolling out of its museum case - POV shot from inside mouth

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

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Tom Holtz on dinosaur reclassification -- bring back Pachypodosauria

https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v545/n7652/full/545030d.html

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Federico Fanti, Italian paleontologist (in Italian)

http://corrieredibologna.corriere.it/bologna/notizie/cronaca/2017/2-maggio-2017/national-geographic-premia-paleontologo-bolognese-unico-italiano--2401537192391.shtml

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SONSI member illustrates new dinosaur

https://sonsi.ca/2017/04/30/sonsi-member-illustrates-new-dinosaur/

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31th Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrados in Santa Clara del Mar, Argentina (in Spanish)

http://www.0223.com.ar/nota/2017-5-2-15-15-8-arrancan-las-31-jornadas-argentinas-de-paleontologia-de-vertebrados

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New sauropods

https://svpow.com/2017/05/02/two-new-sauropods-in-peerj-today-galeamopus-pabsti-sp-nov-and-vouivria-damparisensis-gen-et-sp-nov/

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New sauropod species found in Swiss museum

https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/new-sauropod-species-found-in-swiss-museum

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Troodontid with asymmetric feathers

 

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-species-troodontid-asymmetric-feathers-china.html

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A colossal ceratopsid Torosaurus (in Czech)

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2017/05/04/kolosalni-ceratopsid-torosaurus/

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K-Pg impact and future Mexican Gulf (in Czech)

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2017/05/02/jak-moc-pozmenil-impakt-budouci-mexicky-zaliv/

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Alligator growth and reproduction -- new discoveries (with videos)

http://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/35-year-south-carolina-alligator-study-uncovers-mysteries-about-growth-and-reproduction/?utm_source=homepage

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-year-south-carolina-alligator-uncovers.html

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Museum exhibit: Last Days of Pangea: In the Footsteps of Dinosaurs

Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut

https://brucemuseum.org/site/exhibitions_detail/last-days-of-pangea-in-the-footsteps-of-the-dinosaurs