[dinosaur] European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontology abstracts + Smithsonian dinosaurs + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

ÂXVI Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Caparica, Portugal June 26th-July 1st, 2018.Â

Abstracts book (free pdf)

https://eventos.fct.unl.pt/eavp2018/files/eavp_2018_abstract_book.pdf

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The Smithsonian Had To Dig Up Their Dinosaurs Again

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/how-the-smithsonian-had-to-dig-up-their-dinosaurs-again/563783/

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NC Paleontologists Uncover 97 Million-Year-Old Eggs From Gigantic Chicken-Like Dino:

radio interview with Lindsay Zanno

http://wunc.org/post/nc-paleontologists-uncover-97-million-year-old-eggs-gigantic-chicken-dino#stream/0

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Beyond Jurassic World: what we really know about dinosaurs and how

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-can-scientists-learn-about-dinosaurs-and-how.html

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What Did Dinosaur Tongues Look Like?

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/what-did-dinosaur-tongues-look-like/

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Large dinosaur bone (sauropod or theropod) found in Kuzbass, Siberia (in Russian)

http://kuzbass85.ru/2018/06/25/v-shestakovo-paleontologi-na-glubine-okolo-3-metrov-v-melovyih-otlozheniyah-nashli-fragment-kosti-dinozavra-gigantskih-razmerov/

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Hadrosaur femur found in Japan (in English this time)

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201806260056.html

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Thoracosaurs

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-croc-thoracosaur.html

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Dinosaurs in real-life: Where to find them around the US (some commercial outfits...)

https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/nation-now/dinosaurs-in-real-life-where-to-find-them-around-the-us/465-a311c5a3-d457-4b9f-8cb1-3027f418647a

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Man arrested in Mongolia for smuggling rare dinosaur fossil

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/27/c_137284629.htm

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Jorge Blanco: how an Argentine paleoartist "resurrects" dinosaurs Â(in Spanish)

https://www.clarin.com/viva/trabaja-argentino-resucita-dinosaurios_0_rJAs3aL-Q.html

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Ricardo Delgado's Age of Reptiles at 25: a palaeontological retrospective

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2018/06/ricardo-delgados-age-of-reptiles-at-25.html

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Original Jurassic Park set local researcher on palaeobiologal path

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/jurassic-world-palaeobiologist-jordan-mallon-1.4721906

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Article by Vladimir Socha in Czech ABC Magazine

(title reads: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - for the fifth times with dinosaurs)

https://www.abicko.cz/clanek/precti-si-zabava-filmy/23360/jursky-svet-zanik-rise-popate-s-dinosaury.htmlÂ

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Jurassic World - Fallen Kingdom: A Geologist's Review

http://geotripper.blogspot.com/2018/06/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom.html

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Fossils stored in the Campanile on the UC Berkeley Campus

https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2018-06-11/watch-bones-campanile

bones include Ice Age mammals + marine reptiles

The Bones of the Campanile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_shR21uesU&t=8s

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What's In A Fossil?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zu_doCmpiU

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How the T-Rex Lost Its Arms

PBS Eons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=772GiBXnWoQ

I really hesitated to post this video link. It's kind of a mess. "Prosauropods" were NOT the ancestors of tyrannosaurs, and early sauropodomorphs were bipedal NOT quadrupedal for starters.... Also, Raptorex is now considered to be more likely a juvenile tyrannosaurid (even a misdated Tarbosaurus) rather than a critical early tyrannosaurid ancestor (at least mention the controversy)...

I don't know where the "prosauropods"Â as theropod or tyrannosaur ancestors flub could possibly come from. This is pretty basic stuff that is correct in any current book on dinosaurs, the recent Ornithoscelida controversy making the idea even odder. Who does the fact-checking on this stuff?

Also, the comments that point out the problems get attacked with "Why should I believe you?"-type responses from viewers.

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Non-dino

History of side-necked turtle diversification revealed

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-history-side-necked-turtle-diversification-revealed.html

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Two new ancient mammals found in Bolivia

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-ancient-mammals-bolivia.html

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Study signals dramatic change in way ancient diets are calculated (and foregut fermenting Mylodon)

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-ancient-diets.html