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[dinosaur] Dinosaur diaries: soft eggs + SUE model gains color + Protostega + most



Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items

Dinosaur diaries: The first dinosaur eggs were soft

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/july/dinosaur-diaries-first-dinosaur-eggs-were-soft.html

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New species of ichthyosaur discovered in museum collection

https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/new-species-ichthyosaur-discovered-museum-collection-323090

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-species-ichthyosaur-museum.html

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Photos of lifesize model of "living" SUE the T. rex eating a young Edmontosaurus, being created by Blue Rhino, now with coloration added


https://www.reddit.com/r/Naturewasmetal/comments/hkk5sn/a_life_sized_model_of_sue_the_tyrannosaurus_by/

https://twitter.com/cullen_thomas/status/1279045092121235456/photo/1

https://twitter.com/DreadfulK/status/1278016693369999361

https://www.facebook.com/fieldmuseum/posts/when-theres-a-sueprise-attendee-at-your-meeting-the-agenda-quickly-changes-from-/10156408087732273/

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Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle
Lukas Rieppel (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9FmpM0TMpY

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Protostega

https://carnegiemnh.org/mesozoic-monthly-protostega/

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Carnegie Museum: Behind the scenes with the Baron de Bayet and l. W. Stilwell collection part 3: Âthe Wild West formed million of years ago

https://carnegiemnh.org/badlands-bayet-stilwell-collection/

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Non-dino...

Giant sea scorpions were the underwater titans of prehistoric Australia

https://theconversation.com/giant-sea-scorpions-were-the-underwater-titans-of-prehistoric-australia-141290

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New museum at Murgon in Queensland to highlight local Eocene fossils, including earliest placental land mammals and songbirds in Australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-01/55-million-year-old-fossils-could-revive-qld-town/12409616

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Outback flamingos, giant penguins on new list of extinct Australian birds

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-02/outback-flamingos-and-giant-penguins-bird-on-fossil-checklist/12412370

Note that the paper was post on the DML back in June and has a free pdf:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03721426.2020.1756560

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Reconstructing fossil cephalopods: Enchoteuthis ("Tusoteuthis" ) from Cretaceous

https://incertaesedisblog.wordpress.com/2020/07/03/reconstructing-fossil-cephalopods-enchoteuthis-tusoteuthis/

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Myanmar Cretaceous amber fossils unlock true color of 99-million-year-old insects

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-amber-fossils-true-million-year-old-insects.html

(Note that some scientists and publishers are now suspending or avoiding any research work on fossils in Myanmar amber because of conditions under which the amber is mined and sold.)


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Videos:

The why, what, when and how of the first animal skeletons with Dr Duncan Murdock
Oxford University Museum of Natural History


Âhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z841KEUkfnU&t=8s

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The Palaeontological Association
Sampling Bias in the Fossil Record Workshop: Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smfm6mR-obE

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Sampling Bias in the Fossil Record Workshop: Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKK4dERKqFU

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