Ben Creisler
Some recent items:
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Missed It? | Full list of the 65 paleontological papers published this week
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A new pseudosuchian archosaur from Brazil | New species reported 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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My, what serrated teeth you have
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Ichthyosaur expedition returns to Northern Nevada, including for work on new giant 50-ft specimen
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Mosasaurus and HadrosaurusÂat New Jersey State Museum in Trenton: Two ancient New Jerseyans make colossal comebackÂ
video (beeping cherry picker lift is a minus for audio):
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More on Ashland, Oregon, pterosaur exhibit
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ZDENEK BURIAN: PALEOARTIST AND ILLUSTRATOR
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3-D view of Brazilian Spinosaurine Tibia LPP-PV-0042
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Morphospace fossil turtle skulls
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Special volume of journal Cretaceous Research highlights dinosaurs and other fossil discoveries in Neuquen region of Argentina (in Spanish)
See:
New Insights on the Vertebrate Paleontology of the NeuquÃn Group, Patagonia, Argentina
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Argentine paleontologist SebastiÃn ApesteguÃa and the controversial discovery, excavation, and description of the theropod Gualicho. The specimen was found on private ranch land by paleontologists working with ApesteguÃa, but after he left the Patagonian Museum of Natural Sciences [Museo PatagÃnico de Ciencias Naturales], the museum hired a group of Brazilian researchers, who excavated (and allegedly "stole") the specimen. The story played out on social media. The choice of the name Gualicho (for an evil spirit) reflects the complications around the specimen. (in Spanish)
Note that the original description of Gualicho provides a less revealing version of the recovery and curation of the fossils.
Also:
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Berlin "Brachiosaurus" is part of ongoing discussions between Germany and Tanzania about the status of cultural objects taken back to Germany during the period of colonial rule of German East Africa and possible compensation or scientific assistance. A demand that the dinosaur skeleton be returned to Tanzania was recently put forward by some politicians in that country. There are also calls from organizations in Germany and other countries to address the return of artistic objects, and human remains that were taken from Africa by Europeans during the colonial period. (in German)
An earlier article in English about the issue of restitution of art and historical objects taken from Africa during colonial and military actions by European countries
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The National Museum of Natural History in Paris houses amazing collections of objects (plants, minerals, meteorites), with rare fossils found in France (Eocyclotosaurus, nothosaur skull), and remains of the brachiosaurid sauropod Vouivria, found at Damparis (in French)Â
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750-year celebration of town of Kupfersuhl includes discovery of the "first" fossil reptile Protorosaurus from the Permian, discovered in 1706 in a local copper mine and described in 1710 [considered first scientific description of a fossil reptile, as a crocodile]; a second specimen was found 1718 in an even deeper shaft. Because the fossils themselves cannot be displayed for the local celebration, a life-size model of Protorosaurus has been created and will be mounted in the town center. (in German)
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Non-dino...
Devonian mass extinction linked to volcanic eruptions
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Moa DNA and de-extinction controversy
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What did the giant South American deer Morenelaphus really eat?Â
Posted earlier in Portuguese, now in English and in Spanish as well...
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Earliest humans in Philippines