[dinosaur] Titanosaurs (that weren't) + T. rex SUE's rough life + Utahraptor State Park + more

Ben Creisler

Some recent items:

Your Friends The Titanosaurs, part 35: Part-Time Titanosaurs, or: The Next Best Thing (one-time titanosaurs)

https://equatorialminnesota.blogspot.com/2021/04/your-friends-titanosaurs-35-part-time-titanosaurs.html

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The Rough Life of SUE the T. rex
Jingmai O'Connor from the Field Museum on the world of SUE
Denver Museum of Nature & Science (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUEp8tNJxbE

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How many Tyrannosaurus rex walked the Earth?

https://theconversation.com/how-many-tyrannosaurus-rex-walked-the-earth-159041

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There were billions of tyrannosaurs (in Czech)

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2021/04/16/tyranosauru-byly-miliardy/

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(with original artwork by Czech paleoartists Petr Modlitba and Vladimir Rimbala)

Largest ever flying creatures had longer necks than giraffes â we found out how these pterosaurs kept their heads up

https://theconversation.com/largest-ever-flying-creatures-had-longer-necks-than-giraffes-we-found-out-how-these-pterosaurs-kept-their-heads-up-158835

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NPR: New Research Answers Questions About Dinosaur's Big Head [Make that "Pterosaur's"] (audio)
Azhdarchid necks

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/18/988483598/new-research-answers-questions-about-dinosaurs-big-head

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Scientists Discover Two New Species of Ancient, Burrowing Mammal Ancestors
120-million-year-old animals evolved âscratch diggingâ traits independently

http://english.ivpp.cas.cn/rh/rp/202104/t20210407_267001.html

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Traversodontid sense of smell -- Exaeretodon and Siriusgnathus (in Russian)

https://elementy.ru/novosti_nauki/433803/Tonkim_obonyaniem_sredi_tsinodontov_mogli_pokhvastat_ne_tolko_pryamye_predki_mlekopitayushchikh

Triassic cynodonts from India

https://www.gstimes.in/tiki-formation-and-cynodont-fossils/

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Bill creating Utahraptor State Park signed in ceremony with Gov. Cox

https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/bill-creating-utahraptor-state-park-signed-in-ceremony-with-gov-cox/

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Utah is home to the richest deposits of dinosaurs on the planet, and now they will be protected

https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2021/04/18/robert-gehrke-utah-is/

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Dinosaur National Monument providing timed tickets to help with crowds

https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/dinosaur-national-monument-providing-timed-tickets-to-help-with-crowds/

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'Dinosaurs: Giants of the Vineyard' exhibit from the Angouleme Museum, including Angeac-Charente discoveries, opens at Jurassica Museum in Porrentruy in Switzerland (in French)

https://www.rfj.ch/rfj/Actualite/Region/20210330-Immersion-dans-le-monde-des-dinosaures.html

Red Rocks: Using Color to Understand Climate Change in the Late Triassic (Petrified Forest a case in point)

https://eos.org/articles/red-rocks-using-color-to-understand-climate-change

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Massive Rockfall Along Britainâs Jurassic Coast Could Be a Boon to Fossil Hunters

https://gizmodo.com/massive-rockfall-along-britain-s-jurassic-coast-could-b-1846692315

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Jurassic Coast: Fresh cliff fall prompts new 'stay away' warning

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-56773648

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Road work in Sao Paulo region in Brazil unearths dinosaur fossils of titanosaurs and abelisaurids as well as crocodiles (in Portuguese)

https://www.progresso.com.br/cotidiano/escavacao-em-rodovia-de-sp-revela-fragmentos-de-dinossauro/381181/

https://olhardigital.com.br/2021/04/17/ciencia-e-espaco/fosseis-de-dinossauros-sao-encontrados-no-interior-de-sp/

Dinosaur tracks in the Jura region of France (in French)

https://www.leprogres.fr/magazine-tourisme-et-patrimoine/2021/03/26/sur-les-traces-des-dinosaures-dans-le-jura

What did the dinosaurs and other ancient reptiles that lived in the Var region of France look like? (in French)

https://www.varmatin.com/histoire/voici-a-quoi-ressemblaient-les-dinosaures-qui-vivaient-dans-le-var-ils-ont-laisse-des-traces-partout-663298

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VINTAGE DINOSAUR ART: THE STRANGE WORLD OF DINOSAURS Â(by John Ostrom)â PART 1

https://chasmosaurs.com/2021/04/14/vintage-dinosaur-art-the-strange-world-of-dinosaurs-part-1/

The product side effects leaflet for Paleoart (as pills) (in Italian)

http://theropoda.blogspot.com/2021/04/il-bugiardino-delle-paleoarte.html

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French television documentary (French-Japanese collaboration) on April 22 to include the dinosaurs of Angeac-Charente (in French) (with video)

https://www.sudouest.fr/charente/angouleme/charente-les-dinosaures-d-angeac-charente-vont-etre-a-l-honneur-sur-france-5-2182942.php

Preview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGvfrFHHNhs&t=13s

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Non-dino

Tarantula's ubiquity traced back to the Cretaceous

https://phys.org/news/2021-04-tarantula-ubiquity-cretaceous.html

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Scientists Have Named a 300-Million-Year-Old "Godzilla Shark" That Was First Discovered in New Mexico

https://media.newmexicoculture.org/press_releases.php?action="">Â

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