Ben Creisler
Some recent items:
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Researchers announce worldâs first dinosaur preserved sitting on nest of eggs with fossilized babies
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The Rarest Of The Rare: Carnegie Museum Researchers Assist In Amazing Discovery Of Dinosaur Sitting On Nest Of Fossilized Babies (with video)
Dr. Matt Lamanna: This dinosaur was a caring parent that ultimately gave its life while nurturing its young.
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Did Dinosaurs Sleep at Night?
Even Tyrannosaurus rexes needed to nap sometimes. A still-growing fossil record is showing how dinosaurs used to doze.
Even Tyrannosaurus rexes needed to nap sometimes. A still-growing fossil record is showing how dinosaurs used to doze.
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Dinosaur discoveries are booming
Scientific American
Scientific American
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Cretaceous rebbachisaurid fossils found in Neuquen, Argentina (in Spanish)
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Changes to Scelidosaurus (in Spanish)
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Yunyangosaurus puanensis and Omeisaurus puxianim, new Jurassic dinosaurs from Chongqing, China, named in 2020 (in Chinese)Â
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Scientists discover over 240 dinosaur footprints in east China
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More photos (in Chinese)
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What specific gravity did dinosaur bodies have? (in Czech)
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Saurosuchus: Beast of the Week
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Edaphosaurid Gordodon kraineri was named in honor of Austrian geologist Kark Krainer from Innsbruck University, who discovered the fossils on trip to New Mexico with a group of students in 2013 (in German)
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Tutorial 38: little projects as footsteps toward understanding
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VINTAGE DINOSAUR ART: DINOSAURS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
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Forthcoming book on 19th century paleontology
Creatures of Another Age
Classic Visions of Prehistoric Monsters
Edited by Richard Fallon
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Mary Anning Rocks statue campaign given extra 28 days to reach Â10k target
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Videos:
New UK television series. First episode in full, including Archaeopteryx with Susie Maidment
Natural History Museum London: World of Wonder - S1E1 (07 Jan 2021)
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2020 Paleontology Year in Review
Raptor Chatter
Raptor Chatter
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Not yet mentioned
Last Year's Dino Nerds for Black Lives online paleo talks are archived here:
Last Year's Dino Nerds for Black Lives online paleo talks are archived here:
Including:
Dino Nerds for Black Lives 27 - Thomas Holtz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICLjpkhvd44
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Dino Nerds for Black Lives 18 - Steve Brusatte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txZ-lKm3DV8
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Non-dino:
A VISIT TO THE MAMMOTH SITE, HOT SPRINGS, SD
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A relevant free paper from last year:
Jim I. Mead, Justin S. Tweet, Vincent L. Santucci, Jeffrey T. Rasic, and Sharon E. Holte (2020)
Proboscideans from US National Park Service lands.
Eastern Paleontologist 6: 1-48
https://www.eaglehill.us/epalonline/access-pages/006-Mead-accesspage.shtml
Free pdf:
https://www.eaglehill.us/epal-pdfs-regular/EPAL-006-Mead.pdf
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New Fossil of Extinct Human Relative Suggests Climate Change Led to Rapid Evolution
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Giant trionychid turtle Axestemys from Eocene of Belgium (in Spanish)
Paywalled paper link:
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Megalodons gave birth to large newborns that likely grew by eating unhatched eggs in womb
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-megalodons-gave-birth-large-newborns.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-megalodons-gave-birth-large-newborns.html
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Kenshu Shimada, Matthew F. Bonnan, Martin A. Becker & Michael L. Griffiths (2021)
Ontogenetic growth pattern of the extinct megatooth shark Otodus megalodon--implications for its reproductive biology, development, and life expectancy.
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1861608
Free pdf link to paper:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08912963.2020.1861608?needAccess=true
Ontogenetic growth pattern of the extinct megatooth shark Otodus megalodon--implications for its reproductive biology, development, and life expectancy.
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1861608
Free pdf link to paper:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08912963.2020.1861608?needAccess=true
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Anonymous donation adds 280 acres to Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument