[dinosaur] India's fossils + Tratayenia + more

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Indiaâs paleontologists fight destruction of its fossil riches

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/india-s-paleontologists-fight-destruction-its-fossil-riches

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Tratayenia

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2018/04/04/introducing-tratayenia-rosalesi/

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Presentations "Six Peaks dinosaur track siteâ near Hudson Hope, B.C., and "Birding in the Cretaceous" at Courtenay and District Museum in British Columbia

https://www.comoxvalleyrecord.com/community/two-presentations-from-fossil-experts-at-courtenay-museum/

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Rare Tiny T. Rex Unearthed in Montana

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-fossil-could-prove-or-disprove-existence-tiny-t-rex-180968639/

When dinosaurs roamed the Isles of Scotland

https://blog.geolsoc.org.uk/2018/04/03/dinosaurprints/

https://earth-pages.co.uk/2018/04/03/when-dinosaurs-roamed-the-western-isles/

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National Fossil Day 2018: Art Contest Theme Announced "The Age of ReptilesâMore than Just Dinosaurs"

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2018/04/04/national-fossil-day-2018-art-contest-theme-announced-the-age-of-reptiles-more-than-just-dinosaurs

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Dinosaur exhibit to roar to life at Smithsonian

https://wtop.com/dc/2018/04/exhibits-will-roar-to-life-in-upcoming-dinosaur-and-fossil-hall-in-dc/slide/1/

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Allosaurus and Utahraptor mugs to support public radio in Utah

http://kuer.org/post/get-kuers-new-dino-mugs#stream/0

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Utahraptor sculpture

http://kslnewsradio.com/1526229/artists-engineers-and-scientists-collaborate-to-build-colorful-sculpture-of-the-utah-raptor/

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Dracula, the giant pterosaur from Romania

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-dracula-the-largest-pterosaur-found-to-date/?amp

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Antarcticaâs Prehistoric Forests

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/did-antarctica-ever-have-trees

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Mini-emus on Australian islands

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-island-emus-size-homes.html

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New studies of dinosaur extinction in the Pyrenees (in Spanish)

http://www.aragosaurus.com/?seccion=news_full&id=1713

Pedestrian way in Frick, Switzerland, to be named "Saurierweg" in honor of local dinosaur finds (mainly Plateosaurus) (in German)

https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/aargau/fricktal/auf-einem-weg-vor-unserer-zeit-der-namenlose-fussweg-wird-zum-saurierweg-132381755