[dinosaur] Tanis site fossils (and controversy) + Tiny the Tetrapod + origin of ducks + more

Ben Creisler

Some recent items:

This Mesozoic Month: March 2019Â

https://chasmosaurs.com/2019/03/29/this-mesozoic-month-march-2019/

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More on the Tanis site...

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences supplement to the article (but not yet the full paper) is available here for free:

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2019/03/27/1817407116.DCSupplemental/pnas.1817407116.sapp.pdf

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Stunning discovery offers glimpse of minutes following 'dinosaur-killer' Chicxulub impact

https://news.ku.edu/2019/03/29/stunning-discovery-offers-glimpse-minutes-following-%E2%80%98dinosaur-killer%E2%80%99-chicxulub-impact

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These fossils may capture the day the dinosaurs died. Here's what you should know

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/03/fossils-found-from-day-dinosaurs-died-chicxulub-tanis-cretaceous-extinction/

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Commentator from India looks at New Yorker article about the Tanis site and reactions on the internet...

New Yorker's Dino Fossils Profile Features Pitfalls of 'Science as Performance'

https://thewire.in/the-sciences/new-yorkers-dino-fossils-profile-features-pitfalls-of-science-as-performance

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Tom Holtz comments

https://www.facebook.com/thomas.holtz/posts/10107946946367628

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Barosaurus project update...

https://svpow.com/2019/03/28/hello-ladies/

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Franz Nopcsa 's dinosaurs (in Dutch)

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/03/29/aristocraat-tussen-de-dinos-in-transsylvanie-a3955063

Fossils of Inner Mongolia (in Chinese)

http://www.uua.cn/show-8-9448-1.html

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Virginia Tech paleontologists discover Triassic frog fossil

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/news/virginia-tech-paleontologists-discover-triassic-frog-fossil/article_d2ce80cc-4e69-11e9-97d2-b7bda7a84aa8.html

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Tiny the tetrapod (Aytonerpeton microps) and more fossils from Scotland...

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17539934.future-shock-its-no-surprise-the-very-first-penis-evolved-in-scotland-every-single-living-thing-on-earth-is-scottish/

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38 little Kayentatheriums and assumptions of motherhood...

Trentotto piccoli Kayentatherium e la madre di tutti i pregiudizi

http://theropoda.blogspot.com/2019/03/trentotto-piccoli-kayentatherium-e-la.html

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David Burnham at the Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum University of Kansas wins award

http://today.ku.edu/paleontologist-chemist-honored-ku-research-achievement-awards

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The king of all theropods (in Czech)

http://www.pravek.info/novinky/kral-teropodnich-dinosauru/

non-dino

On the Origin of Ducks

https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-origin-of-ducks.html

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Pacific Mastodon

https://valleyofthemastodon.wordpress.com/2019/03/29/fossil-friday-mammut-pacificus/

https://equatorialminnesota.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-pacific-mastodon.html

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