[dinosaur] Dromaeosaur claws + Svalbard Triassic ichthyosaur + teratorns + more

Ben Creisler
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Some recent items:


THIS MESOZOIC MONTH: AUGUST 2019

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Dromaeosaurs: Killer claws or climbing crampons?

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A new dinosauriform specimen from the Chañares Formation of north-western
Argentina

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Tate Museum Triceratops dig turns up tooth

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Builder 3D printers help reconstruct 67 million-year-old Triceratops
skeleton for Naturalis Museum in The Netherlands

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Tyrannosaurus US postal stamps make official debut

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New Species of Stegosaur Unearthed in Mountains of Morocco

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New fossils found near Senillosa in Argentina include a large sauropod, a
medium-size theropod, and a pterosaur (in Spanish)

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Mashin Manabe interview for Dinosaur Expo in Tokyo
Unexpected career of "Dr. Dinosaur" (in Japanese)

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How did dinosaurs sleep? (in Italian)

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Theropod track  found in Polcenigo, Italy, will be left in place where it
was discovered rather than moved to a museum; a digital printout version of
the footprint will be created instead. (in Italian)

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Big Triassic ichthyosaur fossil found on Svalbard, estimated at 8 to 10
meters, with the skull preserved. It was found on the last day of the dig
and will be excavated next year and taken to Oslo. (in Norwegian)

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Leninia, ichthyosaur from the Cretaceous of Russia (in Russian)

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English version of story posted earlier in Russian:

Syodon therapsid fossil found by school children

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From earlier on the DML:

Russian paleontologist Alexander Bakaev on finds in Udmurtia region of
Russia, including Permian tetrapods (in Russian)

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We need to talk about teratorns

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Non-dino:

With Elephant Ivory Banned, a Brisk and Worrying Trade in Mammoth Tusks

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The silent decline of the platypus, Australia’s beloved oddity

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Ancient Malagasy Ammonites Reveal Changing Seas

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