[dinosaur] Pterosaur flight not bat-like + Carnian Pluvial Episode + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

The paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B is not out yet:

Study casts doubt on traditional view of pterosaur flight

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-traditional-view-pterosaur-flight.html

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More on Mary Anning

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2018/05/21/mary-anning-the-greatest-fossilist-the-world-ever-knew/

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The Time It Rained for Two Million Years (Triassic Carnian Pluvial Episode)

PBS Eons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1LdMWlNYS4

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Dinosaurs in comic books: Bill Ely (in Spanish)

http://koprolitos.blogspot.com/2018/05/los-mundos-prehistoricos-de-bill-ely.html

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non-dino:

Taquetochelys decorata

http://godzillin.blogspot.com/2018/05/tortugas-pleurodiras-africanas-y.html

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Gravel mounds in Australia may be from giant extinct birds

https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/huge-rock-mounds-may-have-been-made-by-a-giant-extinct-bird

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Ice age tracks show how humans harassed giant ground sloths

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/is-this-going-to-be-a-stand-up-fight-sir-or-another-sloth-hunt/