Ben Creisler
Some recent (and sort of recent) items;
(INTER)NATIONAL DINOSAUR DAY MAY 15, 2018!
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Calvin and Hobbes from 2017 Dinosaur Day...
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ÂAn article I missed from back in March, in French:
Free pdf:
Arnaud Brignon (2018)
Nouvelles donnÃes historiques sur les premiers dinosaures trouvÃs en France.Â
[New historical data on the first dinosaurs found in France.]Â
Bulletin de la SociÃtà GÃologique de France 189 (1): 4.
This article reviews the earliest dinosaur discoveries in France before the term Dinosauria was coined by Richard Owen in 1842. Leaving aside the first discoveries of the theropod Streptospondylus altdorfensis made during the eighteenth century by Charles Bacheley in the Jurassic of the Vaches Noires (Normandy), the main results shown in the present paper are the following (in chronological order): 1) the first dinosaur remains (theropod teeth) from the Calcaire de Caen (Bathonian) were collected by Arcisse de Caumont in the Quilly quarries in or before April 1826. The first mention of this discovery was published in 1827 and not in 1828 as previously thought; 2) the theropod remains observed by William Buckland in October 1826 in the Cabinet of Natural History of BesanÃon were reported in a publication in 1830; 3) The first mention of a dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Boulogne-sur-Mer was long considered to be the one made by Constant PrÃvost in 1839. However, a theropod tooth and another one from a supposed herbivorous dinosaur were apparently discovered in these formations by EugÃne Robert as early as autumn 1833. Another theropod tooth, identifiable beyond doubt, was collected in or before July 1835 by Bruno Marmin as evidenced by an unrecorded letter to Jules Desnoyers; 4) the genus Poekilopleuron Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1836 and its type species P. bucklandii Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1836, from the Calcaire de Caen (Middle Bathonian), were validly introduced in 1836; 5) the sauropod humerus from the Late Cretaceous of the plain of Lisle near PÃrigueux (Dordogne), figured by Paul Gervais in 1852, was offered to the MusÃum dâHistoire naturelle, Paris by a certain Simon Bornet in 1841; 6) the sauropod humerus from the Greensand (Albian) of BÃdoin, near Mont Ventoux, described by Paul Gervais in 1852 under the name Aepisaurus elephantinus was discovered by Prosper Renaux in 1841. The latter made some drawings of the bone from which an unpublished lithograph was realized. Renaux was the first to discover and study a verified dinosaur bone from the Cretaceous of Provence. The affinity of this bone with the genera Megalosaurus or Iguanodon was recognized by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville as early as 1842.
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Galeamopus skeleton on display at Rhinegeist Brewery in Cincinnati before being moved to Natural History and Science Museum; skeleton is 85 percent complete.
with audio + photos:
with video:
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"Elderly" Tyrannosaurus from Montana on display in Murfreesboro at Middle Tennessee Museum of Natural History (with video)
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More on fund-raising campaign to restore dinosaur gallery and Maxakalisaurus mount at National Museum in Brazil after termite damage (in Portuguese)
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Dinosaur displays in Scotland
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International Museum Day on Friday, May 18 to be celebrated at Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum
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Halberstadt Natural History Museum exhibit "Urzeitliche ÂSchÃtze â Plateosaurus, Mammut & Co." (Prehistoric Treasures -- Plateosaurus, Mammoth, and Co." opens; Plateosaurus (fossils were found in the local area)Â is displayed both as a biped and as a quadruped (in German)
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Dinosaur extinction (in Czech)
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Teraterpeton, "burrowing" allokotosaur?
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Antarctic fossils surprise and mystify at Burke Museum
University of Washington researchers search for ancient life in the ice and snow
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Dinosaur feathers with ticks (in Spanish)
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non-dino:
A history of the marsupial lion - with science, colonial politics and bunyips
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More videos:
Understanding Dinosaurs in the 21st Century
Mark Norell, AMNH
2018 Explorer Series at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
52:34
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The Chicxulub Impact and Dawn of a New Era -
Michael T Whalen, Professor of Geology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute
56:19
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Interview with Philip J. Currie (featuring Joshua Ballze) - MONGOLIAN DINOSAURS
audio with slides
part 1
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part 2
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