[dinosaur] Dilophosaurus + Kongonaphon + marine reptiles + Permian extinction + Crystal Palace Megalosaurus + more

Ben Creisler

Some recent items:

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Dilophosaurus:Â 'Jurassic Park' got almost everything wrong about this iconic dinosaur

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/07/jurassic-park-got-almost-everything-wrong-about-iconic-dinosaur-dilophosaurus/

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Kongonaphon

Species new to science

http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2020/07/kongonaphon.htmlÂÂ

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Study: Dinosaurs and Pterosaurs Descended From Tiny ReptilesÂÂ

https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/research-posts/tiny-reptile-dinosaur-relative

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Fossil Marine Reptiles of the National Park Service

https://equatorialminnesota.blogspot.com/2020/07/fossil-marine-reptiles-of-national-park.html

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First pterosaur from Colombia (in Spanish)

https://www.eltiempo.com/vida/ciencia/fosil-de-primer-pterosaurio-en-colombia-fue-hallado-en-santander-515020

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Fossil of the Month: Prestosuchus (in German)

https://bspg.palmuc.org/images/pdfs/Fos/2020/flyer_juli_2020.pdf

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Three ichthyosaurs from England, Canada and Russia turned out to be close relatives (in Russian)

https://elementy.ru/novosti_nauki/433674/Tri_ikhtiozavra_iz_Anglii_Kanady_i_Rossii_okazalis_blizkimi_rodstvennikami

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Snake's Skeleton almost 145 Million Years old found in Bileca in Bosnia

https://www.sarajevotimes.com/164496-2/

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The Epic Siberian Journey to Solve a Mass Extinction Mystery (end-Permian)Â

https://www.wired.com/story/the-epic-siberian-journey-to-solve-a-mass-extinction-mystery/

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An update from Friends of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs on the damaged Crystal Palace Megalosaurus

https://cpdinosaurs.org/blog/post/update-megalosaur

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Paleoart: ÂA renaissance is occurring in the way we render extinct species (with Mark Witton)

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2020/07/07/paleoart/

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Podcast interview with Mark Witton

https://www.jasongilchrist.co.uk/section874799.html

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Acknowledgments: Writing a dissertation about temnospondyls

https://bryangee.weebly.com/blog/acknowledgments

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non-dino:

How Birds Got (And Kept) Their Beaks (video)

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

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How flying snakes glide: Swimming through the air (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpW5aWMxrEw

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Fossil of giant 70-million-year-old fish (Xiphactinus) found in Argentina

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-fossil-giant-70m-year-old-fish.html

in Spanish (with photos)

https://www.ecoticias.com/eco-america/203391/sur-provincia-chubut-descubrieron-pez-gigante-fosil

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Human ancestor Homo erectus had the stocky chest of a Neanderthal

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/july/human-ancestor-homo-erectus-had-stocky-chest-of-a-neanderthal.html

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Small Cats: Lynxes of North America

https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2020/07/small-cats-lynxes-of-north-america.html

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New global study reveals 'time tree' of Earth's flowering plants

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-global-reveals-tree-earth.html

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Former Carnegie museum paleontologist Leonard "Kris" Krishtalka pens murder mysteries

https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/2020/07/06/Krishtalka-mysteries-books-Carnegie-Museum-Natural-History-camel-driver-bone-field/stories/202006200060

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