Ben Creisler
Some recent items:
The Unlucky Cretaceous Frog | New species reported this week
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Missed It? | Full list of the 132 paleontological papers published this week
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Paleontological papers on the news this week
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Missed It? | News from around the world published this week
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Steve Brusatte Interview on NPR's Science Friday for The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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Self-taught paleoichnologist Ray Stanford finds dinosaur traces around MarylandÂ
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Jura Museum set to close
The Jura Museum in EichstÃtt, Germany (which has a famous Archaeopteryx specimen, Juravenator, and other fossils from the local Solnhofen beds) is housed in part of a Catholic seminary in the Willibaldsburg castle, overlooking the town. The seminary now wants to terminate the museum (opened in 1976 as a state-run institution) by the end of the year for financial reasons, citing deficits and the cost of modernizing the museum. (The local diocese apparently risked millions of euros in real estate investments in the United States, creating a scandal.) Other funding sources may be sought to help sponsor the museum and keep it open. It is currently operated in conjunction with the National Natural Sciences of Bavaria and is mainly supported by the Free State of Bavaria government, with some money from the seminary. (in German)
More on the museum collection:
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The closure could affect this situation....
Amateur fossil collectors can hunt for fossils in the limestone quarry in Blumenberg in EichstÃtt, which is owned by the district government. People can keep their finds unless they are deemed scientifically valuable, in which case they would go to the Jura Museum and the finder may get a finder's fee. One amateur found part of an ichthyosaur and the museum extracted the full specimen, which is now on display in the Jura Museum. (in German)
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The dinosaurs of Denmark on Bornholm island -- tracks of stegosaurs, sauropods, and theropods, plus the tooth of a dromaeosaur and a sauropodomorph bone; other finds from Denmark include mosasaurs and pliosaurs (in Danish)
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Prehistoric sea monsters come to life on your phone in Museum at Prairiefire for Savage Ancient Seas
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Fossils from Alcoota site in Australia shed more light on origins of gigantic, goose-like bird Dromornis
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Fossil Cretaceous frog in amber
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Paleo Profile: The Stardust Beast
A mammal from the age of dinosaurs is named after one of David Bowie's personas.
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Jurassic snake-necked turtle fossil found in SW China
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Original Jurassic Park appreciation