Ben Creisler
Some recent items:
Palaeontology and Open Science roundup: December, 2018
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This Mesozoic Month: December 2018Â
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2018 at Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week!
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Dinosaur genitals...
I genitali dei dinosauri
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Saltriovenator (with audio, read slowly for Voice of America)
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Jura Museum in EichstÃtt, housed, and till now partly run, by a Catholic seminary, will be closed to the public for renovation work and issues of funding and administration. If funding and sponsorship issues can be resolved, the Jura Museum may reopen at the end of March 2019 (in German)
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Old Burke Museum in Seattle is now closed. The Tufts-Love Tyrannosaurus rex skull will not be on view to the public until the new Burke Museum opens in the fall of 2019
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Kemerovo Regional Museum takes out special insurance to protect its big Psittacosaurus sibiricus fossil (in Russian)
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Fossils of a dinosaur and a crocodile from the Santana do Cariri Museum of Paleontology collection that were on loan to the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro were recovered from the fire debris but are burned and need restoration. They will be returned to the Santana do Cariri Museum at some point in the future. (in Portuguese)
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Taller de RestauraciÃn PaleontolÃgica de Cuenca celebrates December with talks on dinosaurs and other Cretaceous creatures as part of the Open Conference {Jornadas de Puertas Abiertas] with other Spanish museums (in Spanish)
Dinonavidades cretÃcicas
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New exhibit hosted by Guangxi Natural History Museum and Nanning Museum in Guangxi Autonomous Region features fossils from the region spanning 500 million years. Highlights include three dinosaurs--the sauropods Liubangosaurus and Qingxiusaurus, and the hadrosaurid Nanningosaurus (in Chinese)Â
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Interview with Italian paleontologist Federico Fanti (in Italian)
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Iberian Mesozoic fossil reptiles inventory for 2018 (in Spanish)
Inventario de los nuevos reptiles mesozoicos ibÃricos de 2018
Atlantic Productions unveils animation for upcoming 'Sue' exhibit at Chicago's Field Museum
More on new Sue exhibit
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New book...
Lowell Dingus (2018)
King of the Dinosaur Hunters: The Life of John Bell Hatcher and the Discoveries that Shaped Paleontology.
Pegasus 336 pp.
ISBN 978-1-68177-865-5
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Cleveland Museum of Natural History celebrates the new year early with giant dinosaur egg drop
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Also:
Mammal diversification after the dinosaurs (in German)
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Smithsonian discoveries in 2018
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Shark (elasmobranch) year in new taxa