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[dinosaur] Dinosaur taxa numbers + end-Guadalupian extinction + Kwanasaurus + more




Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

How many kind of dinosaurs were there?

https://dinomuseum.ca/2019/12/17/how-many-kind-of-dinosaurs-were-there/

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Argentine paleontologist Diego Pol interview about what Earth was like before the impact, with discoveries in Santa Cruz region (with audio) (in Spanish)

https://noticiasyprotagonistas.com/actualidad/diego-pol-todavia-esta-en-discusion-el-estado-del-planeta-antes-del-meteorito-que-elimino-a-los-dinosaurios/

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Daniel Vida Thesis: Evolution of Sauropod Dinosaur postcranial biomechanics: A virtual paleontology approach.

http://godzillin.blogspot.com/2019/12/sauropoda-3d-en-formato-tesis.html

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Zigong Dinosaur Museum exhibit: "Jurassic Echo - Zigong Major Fossil Discoveries" (in Chinese)

http://www.uua.cn/show-8-10092-1.html


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In Czech:

Dinosaur nesting grounds

https://www.abicko.cz/clanek/precti-si-priroda/25711/dinosauri-jesle-rodice-s-metrovymi-drapy.html

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"Dinosaur devils" from Poland (about dinosaur footprints and local folklore)Â

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2019/12/19/dinosauri-certi-z-polska/Â

(Moyenisauropus footprints were a place of occult gatherings in the ancient times).

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Mosasaur jaw find in New Zealand leads to Harold Wellman Prize from Geoscience Society of New Zealand for fossil finder

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1912/S00528/snappy-discovery-leads-to-award-for-fossil-hunter.htm

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Man finds part of giant pliosaur jaw near Bungay in England. It may been carried by a glacier.

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/the-find-of-a-lifetime-man-finds-160-million-year-old-dinosaur-fossil-in-bungay-1-6430519

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End-Guadalupian extinction in Permian
Earth has had more major mass extinctions than we realized

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/12/earth-had-more-mass-extinctions-than-realized-end-guadalupian/


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Doing the crocodile trot

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/doing-the-crocodile-trot/

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âAmmoniteâ film funding given to projects honoring Mary Anning

http://lyme-online.co.uk/news/lyme-regis/ammonite-film-funding-given-to-projects-honouring-mary-anning/

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Non-dino:

Fossil expands ancient fish family tree

https://phys.org/news/2019-12-fossil-ancient-fish-family-tree.html

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Bite marks in fossils reveal demise of our early jawless fish relatives

https://phys.org/news/2019-12-fossils-reveal-demise-early-relatives.html

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Scientists uncover world's oldest forest (from Devonian) in Cairo, New York

https://phys.org/news/2019-12-scientists-uncover-world-oldest-forest.html

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)31569-6



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Videos:


"Digging for Dinosaurs: Unearthing a New Species," a lecture featuring Dr. Jeffrey Martz about Kwanasaurus williamparkeri.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0RWI9EX0yA

[Slides are off screen or hard to see, unfortunately.]


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An astronaut's theory of how giant pterosaurs flew and what it says about Earth's ancient higher atmospheric pressure [maybe...] |Â
Don Pettit | TEDxNaperville

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

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Dinosaurs, Dunes, and Drifting Continents
Professor Richard Little discusses the Geo-History of the Connecticut River Valley Region

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMtGxWiap28

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Walking With Giant Dinosaurs at Berlinâs Museum of Natural History
Dr Dean R. LomaxÂ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeXfCRn7aiI


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Making Sense of Fossil Fish - with Tom Challands
The Palaeontological Association

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTv37sPM1xY

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The Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda
Eons PBS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2DbShys9ww