[dinosaur] Titanosaurs + terror birds + Michael Hudgins + more

Ben Creisler
[email protected]

Some recent items:


Your Friends The Titanosaurs, part 16: Malarguesaurus and Magyarosaurus

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__equatorialminnesota.blogspot.com_2019_09_your-2Dfriends-2Dtitanosaurs-2D16-2Dmalarguesaurus-2Dmagyarosaurus.html&d=DwIBaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=5Kok6wSZ1ZQzk2RQAAHXcbcaoYGx20AZAGMm207dvZM&s=Wyp5DzhH2ORSWwu8rbWtVlFIEqZkhyI-I0mYZt_QBOk&e= 

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Palaeocast: Terror birds with Federico "Dino" Degrange

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.palaeocast.com_terror-2Dbirds_&d=DwIBaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=5Kok6wSZ1ZQzk2RQAAHXcbcaoYGx20AZAGMm207dvZM&s=B4Hrpd8_IJwhpy2G8wwq97_Fryjq-kRcOKERfTtLzNw&e= 


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Fernando Novas: Argentina has the best dinosaurs in the world (in Spanish)

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.rionegro.com.ar_el-2Dpaleontologo-2Dque-2Ddice-2Dque-2Dlos-2Dmejores-2Ddinosaurios-2Dson-2Dde-2Dargentina-2D1107742_&d=DwIBaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=5Kok6wSZ1ZQzk2RQAAHXcbcaoYGx20AZAGMm207dvZM&s=2arCSaTzsmact7Z3-1F2ceAFOQNWxcVYkTYv3BahUTc&e= 

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Japanese paleontologist Makoto Manabe interview on dinosaurs and the Tanis
site (in Japanese)

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__natgeo.nikkeibp.co.jp_atcl_web_19_070300010_071100008_&d=DwIBaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=5Kok6wSZ1ZQzk2RQAAHXcbcaoYGx20AZAGMm207dvZM&s=jsrISIjKO3n99Ak5bTw8UMSkxq75TANeepDDfc9es20&e= 

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New Jurassic crocodile fossils from Araripe Geopark in Brazil to be
described in PLoS ONE (in Portuguese)

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mais.opovo.com.br_fossil-2Dcrocodilo-2Dcariri-2Dmais-2Dantigo-2Ddescoberto-2Dbrasil.html&d=DwIBaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=5Kok6wSZ1ZQzk2RQAAHXcbcaoYGx20AZAGMm207dvZM&s=c636xSusu0fgNLg9plcSgE14QtZdq8OXDRO5pnn8fm4&e= 

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The Origin of Dinosaurs  with Michael Hudgins of the University of Alberta,
Canada

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DW-2DR4wTXGGKY&d=DwIBaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=5Kok6wSZ1ZQzk2RQAAHXcbcaoYGx20AZAGMm207dvZM&s=5pK0OMLsHcrvAqaHla98yzgrkCVXCP2duUoz1aV0q4s&e= 

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Mystriosaurus (in German)

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__geohorizon.de_2019_09_14_mystriosaurus_&d=DwIBaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=5Kok6wSZ1ZQzk2RQAAHXcbcaoYGx20AZAGMm207dvZM&s=5vMLnCDwbAaplOq4FzVkqNL46AaCVCQV6XKxQ_sdjo0&e= 

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SOME PERSONAL COMMENTS...

Just to be clear, I have nothing to do with the technical side of the DML.
Any "spam" and "scam" emails that people may receive are not coming from
me. If you posted something to the DML at some point, a web crawler might
have found your email address in the DML archive (
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__dinosaurmailinglist.cmnh.org_&d=DwIBaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=5Kok6wSZ1ZQzk2RQAAHXcbcaoYGx20AZAGMm207dvZM&s=1HDzq4XcSuOfHkMPHO4L5lbyXCAby_tXbUBUqzTAmi0&e= ) or elsewhere on the internet. You may
need to check your spam filter on your own email service. A few such "spam"
items seem to get through the DML filters and show up in the Archive.

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Also, I have posted news stories and published papers that are based on
privately owned fossils under scientific study, provided the fossils are
not currently being put up for commercial sale. This is my understanding of
the DML restriction on mentioning the commercial sale of fossils.

My intent is NOT to encourage or promote private ownership of dinosaur and
other fossil specimens, only to pass on information about dinosaur
research, even if there is scholarly controversy involved. I think such
privately owned fossils can be newsworthy despite the controversies, which
I try to mention.

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology has a strict policy about fossils
that are not curated at recognized institutions (museums, universities,
colleges, etc.) that make them available to researchers on a permanent
basis.  Fossil specimens that are not properly curated should not be used
or cited in formal papers published by the SVP.  Some people go even
further and won't study fossils that have not been carefully documented,
studied in context, and excavated on site according to modern professional
and scholarly standards.

Many museums, institutions,  and researchers have different attitudes and
policies about privately owned or commercially sold fossils. The
Smithsonian, ROM, Field Museum, etc., buy specimens from commercial fossil
dealers and private owners (even if the field documentation is not
perfect). The fossils then are curated for researchers.

However, some museums or other institutions also will temporarily or
semi-permanently host privately owned fossils that do not belong to
permanently curated collections open to all and so have no formal specimen
designations. The fossils nevertheless have been studied and may be
described in scientific publications.

Privately owned Archaeopteryx described in PeerJ

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__peerj.com_articles_4191_&d=DwIBaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=5Kok6wSZ1ZQzk2RQAAHXcbcaoYGx20AZAGMm207dvZM&s=gOcV68jXp_E0qlsW9tWjR8x75wuk_6sndToCPNlf3KE&e= 

Recent examples include the Tyrannosaurus specimen Tristan (owned by a
Danish businessman) at the Berlin Museum of Natural History and the
Allosaurus specimen called Arkhane, allegedly a different species,
currently at the Brussels Museum of Natural Sciences (private owner not
disclosed, but bought at a recent auction in France), both of which have
been studied at the museums.

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__phys.org_news_2015-2D12-2Dberlin-2Dt-2Drex-2Dfever-2Dtristan-2Dstomps.html&d=DwIBaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=5Kok6wSZ1ZQzk2RQAAHXcbcaoYGx20AZAGMm207dvZM&s=E0892GYmPM_a6Fc0_NXhws0TKbpSS_hu9YKGap4IcHo&e= 

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.thebulletin.be_meet-2Darkhane-2Dnewly-2Ddiscovered-2Ddinosaur-2Dspecies-2Dgoes-2Ddisplay-2Dbrussels&d=DwIBaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=5Kok6wSZ1ZQzk2RQAAHXcbcaoYGx20AZAGMm207dvZM&s=p5VwQZlgo5NmK-p9LR6RKg2jPwehKaCntXI-afcEmWE&e= 


Most recently, a privately owned Tyrannosaurus specimen nicknamed
"Victoria" (after the city in Canada where the fossil bones were prepared
by a commercial company) is on tour, starting with a science center in
Arizona. According to news reports, the specimen has also been studied by
paleontologists and will get a published description at some point.

I have posted items about these fossils on the DML but also have mentioned
the ownership issues. And again, to the best of my knowledge, these fossil
are not being offered for sale commercially.

(I have avoided mentioning a number of dinosaur fossils in the news that
are currently being offered for sale or auction.)

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