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[dinosaur] Torvosaurus in Cincinnati + T. rex Trix and Wyrex + Pterodactylus crest + more





Ben Creisler


Some recent items:


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Fossil Friday Roundup: August 31, 2018



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Palaeontology and Open Science roundup: August, 2018



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Torvosaurus skeleton mounted in Cincinnati before Museum of Natural History & Science opens new dinosaur hall in November (with audio and video)



Torvosaurus: Cincinnati Museum Center's New Dinosaur
The apex predator of Jurassic era Colorado is coming to Cincinnati Museum Center! Torvosaurus is a large meat eating theropod dinosaur, with robust arms, large three-fingered hands, and a narrow snout. This specimen represents the only associated skeleton known for Torvosaurus, which was previously known from individual bones or sets of bones. In this video, Dr. Glenn Storrs, Museum Center's Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, and Jason Cooper, the fossil hunter who found and excavated this specimen, explain what Torvosaurus was, why this specimen is important, and how it made its way to Cincinnati.




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Visitors swarm to see Trix the T. rex at the Paris National Museum of Natural History, in spite of a heatwave and non-air-conditioned display area; it's the biggest public attendance ever for the natural history museum and the exhibit has been extended until November 4th before the skeleton returns to the Netherlands for eventual permanent display at the Naturalis museum in Leiden. Note that the first news story below states that "there are only 3 T. rex in the world including Trix." This supposed "fact" is probably confusion over the completeness of the specimen (about 75 percent), since Trix is among the most complete single specimens known (alongside Sue (85-90 %) at the Field Museum and the Wankel specimen (80-85%) now at the Smithsonian).
(in French)





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And a T. rex skeleton that's notable because it's NOT complete!

Welcome to Dinosaur Goredom!
Wrey, the T. rex with its tail bitten off by another T. rex...



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Newly discovered armored dinosaur Invictarx fossils delivered to Western Science Center Museum in Hemet, California



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Follow-up audio interview to an article recently posted with a link...

Bianca Bosker, author and contributing editor at The Atlantic, discusses her recent piece, "The Nastiest Feud in Science." Bosker profiles paleontologist Gerta KellerÂ



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Radio interview in Czech with Vladimir Socha
We are living in the golden age of (dinosaur) paleontology:




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Three new primates from San Diego County (in German)