[dinosaur] University of Kansas T. rex + Greenland footprints + Alberta dino habitat + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

University of Kansas museum unveils T. rex skeleton

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2017/sep/26/after-years-digging-and-crowdfunding-campaigns-t-r/

http://cjonline.com/news/local/education/2017-09-27/university-kansas-museum-unveils-t-rex-skeleton

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Footprints of Large, Triassic Plant-Eating Dinosaurs Found in Greenland

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2017/09/27/footprints-of-large-triassic-plant-eating-dinosaurs-found-in-greenland/

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The ancient dinosaur-filled forests and seashores of Alberta

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/27/a-glimpse-of-when-canadas-badlands-were-a-lush-dinosaur-forest-by-the-sea

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Dinosaur bone from unknown species found in Czech Republic

http://www.praguemonitor.com/2017/09/27/dinosaur-bone-unknown-species-found-czech-republic

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Cranial anatomy of Allosaurus from Portugal (Spanish and English)

http://godzillin.blogspot.com/2017/09/la-anatomia-craneal-de-allosaurus-en-el.html

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Concavenator skull

http://godzillin.blogspot.com/2017/09/el-craneo-de-concavenator-en-el-77th.html

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Lost continent of Zealandia revealed by drill cores

https://www.livescience.com/60538-zealandia-eighth-continent-once-above-ocean.html

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-27/secrets-of-lost-continent-zealandia-unearthed/8994096

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Non-dino

Diprotodon migration

 

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/giant-wombatlike-creatures-migrated-across-australia-300000-years-ago

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Smilodon kittens were brawny from the start

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/saber-toothed-kittens-were-born-armed-pounce

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-saber-toothed-kittens-born-thicker-bones.html

Free pdf:

Katherine Long, Donald Prothero, Meena Madan & Valerie J. P. Syverson (2017)

Did saber-tooth kittens grow up musclebound? A study of postnatal limb bone allometry in felids from the Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea.

PLoS ONE 12(9): e0183175

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183175

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0183175

 

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