[dinosaur] Mnyamawamtuka + Kem Kem "abelisaurid" + Ingentia contest + Peregocetus + more

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Mnyamawamtuka, from Tanzania. Out of Africa: A new hypothesis for the worldâs biggest ever dinosaurs

https://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2019/04/04/out-of-africa-a-new-hypothesis-for-the-worlds-biggest-ever-dinosaurs/

Kem Kem "abelisaurid" identification questioned (in Italian)

Questo ileo di abelisauride dal Kem Kem Ã di abelisauride?

http://theropoda.blogspot.com/2019/04/questo-ileo-di-abelisauride-dal-kem-kem.html

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New Type of Arctic Dinosaur Discovered in Alaska--Lambeosaurine Hadrosaur

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-type-arctic-dinosaur-discovered-alaska-180971872/

Antarctic dinosaurs on displayÂ in Los Angeles (photos)

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Antarctic-Dinosaurs-Now-Roaring-at-NHMLA-508069681.html

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Tianchisaurus: The most "Jurassic" of all dinosaurs (in Czech)Â

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2019/04/04/nejjurstejsi-ze-vsech-dinosauru/

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Jurassic crocodile sheds light on family tree

https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2019/jurassic-crocodile-sheds-light-on-family-tree

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-jurassic-crocodile-family-tree.htmlÂÂ

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PalNews newsletter of the Palaeontological Society of South Africa March 2019

https://www.palaeosa.org/palnews.html

Free pdf:

https://www.palaeosa.org/uploads/4/5/2/1/45213539/palnews_march_2019_standard_version_final.pdf

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5 Things You Didn't Know About Paleoart

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geology/5-things-didnt-know-about-paleoart.htm

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Contest in Argentina to create augmented reality mobile application for "giant" Triassic sauropodomorphÂ Ingentia prima (in Spanish)

https://sisanjuan.gob.ar/noticias-ciencia-tecnologia-e-innovacion/item/13752-llaman-a-concurso-para-el-desarrollo-de-una-aplicacion-sobre-el-dinosaurio-igentia-prima

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non-dino:

More on Eocene birds from British Columbia

Citizen scientists' rare fossil bird finds shed new light on avian history

http://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2019/04/citizen-scientists-rare-fossil-bird-finds-shed-new-light-on-avia.html

Ancient, four-legged whale with otter-like features found along the coast of Peru

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-ancient-four-legged-whale-otter-like-features.html

video:

Four-legged whale ancestors reached South America in an otter-like swimming style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs5ySdNtLYo

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Free pdf:

Peregocetus pacificus gen. et sp. nov.

Olivier Lambert, Giovanni Bianucci, Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi, Claudio Di Celma, Etienne Steurbaut, Mario Urbina & Christian de Muizon (2019)Â

An Amphibious Whale from the Middle Eocene of Peru Reveals Early South Pacific Dispersal of Quadrupedal Cetaceans.

Current Biology (advance online publication)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.02.050

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)30220-9

Free pdf:

https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0960-9822%2819%2930220-9

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Metatherian migration to Turkey

https://medium.com/@Mullerornis/gondwannan-metatherians-triplex-3a34151c3ab