[dinosaur] Royal Tyrrell Museum + Patagonia dinosaurs + Zulma Gasparini + Varanus breathing + more

Ben Creisler

Some recent items:

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Royal Tyrrell Museum fieldwork, dinosaur finds, and research over the last decade

https://royaltyrrellmuseum.wpcomstaging.com/2019/12/13/best-of-the-decade-fieldwork-preparation-research/

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Pedro Candolo Museum in Sao Paulo region of Brazil has 600 dinosaur fossils, including Thanos (in Portuguese)Â

https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-jose-do-rio-preto-aracatuba/noticia/2019/12/15/museu-reune-mais-de-600-fosseis-de-dinossauros-pre-historicos-que-viviam-no-interior-de-sp-video.ghtml

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Creating a model of a Brazilian carcharodontosaur (in Portuguese)

https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-carlos-regiao/noticia/2019/12/15/grupo-de-paleontologos-da-ufscar-e-unicamp-cria-brinquedo-identico-a-dinossauro-que-viveu-no-brasil.html

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Patagonia, dinosaur factory for the world (in Spanish)

https://fundaciondinosaurioscyl.blogspot.com/2019/12/bienvenidos-la-patagonia-la-fabrica.html

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/12/09/ciencia/1575893165_695684.html

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Argentine paleontologist Zulma Gasparini and her many fossil discoveries, with videos (in Spanish)

https://www.lmneuquen.com/los-verdaderos-monstruos-vaca-muerta-n671570

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Italian paleontologist Federico Fanti (in Italian)

https://www.nationalgeographic.it/scienza/2019/11/federico-fanti

What Were Dinosaurs For? (Review of recent dinosaur books)

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/19/what-were-dinosaurs-for/

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New book "The Feathered Revolution" ["LA RIVOLUZIONE PIUMATA"] by Andrea Cau now available (in Italian)

http://theropoda.blogspot.com/2019/12/la-rivoluzione-piumata-volume-primo.html

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Forthcoming 2020 exhibit at Âthe Herzoglichen Museum Gotha Â"Saurier â Die Erfindung der Urzeit" [Saurians -- Inventions of the Prehistoric Past] about Bromacker Permian tetrapod fossils is organizing a paleoart competition Â(in German)Â

https://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/regionen/gotha/gotha-wettbewerb-zum-bromacker-id227919393.html

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TetZoo review of what dinosaurs might have evolved into...

http://tetzoo.com/blog/2019/11/23/alternative-timeline-dinosaurs-the-view-from-2019-part-1

http://tetzoo.com/blog/2019/12/6/alternative-timeline-dinosaurs-the-view-from-2019-part-2

http://tetzoo.com/blog/2019/12/13/alternative-timeline-dinosaurs-the-view-from-2019-part-3-the-dinosauroid-and-its-chums

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Non-dino:

Prehistoric Mammal Discoveries of 2019

https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2019/12/prehistoric-mammal-discoveries-of-2019.html

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Advait JukarÂ

Smithsonian Libraries, BHL, and My Research on South Asian Mammals

https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2019/12/smithsonian-bhl-research-on-south-asian-mammals.html

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Polar Extremes
Paleontologist Kirk Johnson explores the dynamic history--and future--of ice at the poles.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/polar-extremes/

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Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191211-crows-could-be-the-smartest-animal-other-than-primates

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Savannah monitor lizards have a unique airflow pattern that is a hybrid of bird and mammal flow patterns

https://phys.org/news/2019-12-savannah-lizards-unique-airflow-pattern.html

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Iguana invasion of Florida

https://www.foxnews.com/science/massive-iguana-population-turns-florida-into-jurassic-park