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Sauropods and pterosaurs in the Outback Dec 04, 2019

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Dinosaur of the day Magyarosaurus, an armored dwarf sauropod from a Cretaceous European island.

Interview with Philip Mannion, Steve Poropat, and Adele Pentland. Paleontologists at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs museum in Winton, Queensland. We discussed the new sauropods literally coming up out of the ground in the Outback as well as a brand new pterosaur, Ferrodraco.

Here is the video of our visit to the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum.

In dinosaur news this week:

A new small ceratopsian was named Ferrisaurus from northern British Columbia, Canada
A new study shows just how fast dinosaurs could replace their teeth
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History has a new exhibit called Ultimate Dinosaurs
The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles is having an Antarctic Dinosaurs Family Day

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A New Remarkable Triassic Herrerasaurid Nov 27, 2019

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Dinosaur of the day Pelecanimimus, the "pelican mimic" with over 200 teeth.

Interview with Stuart Sumida, biology professor at California State University, San Bernardino, and an anatomical consultant to special effect artists and animators. He’s worked on over 50 films with many studios (Disney, Pixar, ILM, many more) as well as with games (Blizzard), written books, published numerous scientific articles, and led digs around the world.

In dinosaur news this week:

A new remarkable early herrerasaurid, Gnathovorax cabreirai, was found in Brazil
A new set of Oryctodromeus fossils were found in Idaho including at least one new burrow
Crystal Palace dinosaur park in the UK may be getting a new, permanent bridge so visitors can get closer to the dinosaurs
Avengers #26 will show the "first superhero" in the Marvel Universe, a T. rex

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T. rex tooth replacement & a new Australian megaraptorid Nov 20, 2019

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Dinosaur of the day Leptoceratops, A small late cretaceous ceratopsian that may have switched between a two and four-legged stance.

Interview with Matthew Mossbrucker, the director and chief curator at the Morrison Natural History Museum in Colorado where he studies the type section of the Morrison Formation. He's also on the board of the Paleon Museum where he leads digs with the public. Check out his work at the Morrison's Facebook page.

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In dinosaur news this week:

A new Megarptorid was found in Australia, it looks a lot like Australovenator, but it might be too old
Another Alaskan tracksite, the Chignik Formation, recovers a huge number of hadrosaurids at the beach
A new study looked at Tristan the T.rex’s tooth replacement and found an alternating replacement pattern
Three baby Protoceratops at Southern Illinois Laboratory have been given new nicknames

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Dinosaur fossils that fit on the head of a pin Nov 13, 2019

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Dinosaur of the day Chingkankousaurus, a possible tyrannosauroid from eastern China known only from a shoulder blade.

Interview with Phoebe Wood, a primary student from Adelaide, South Australia. She won several awards for her Anchiornis huxleyi model. Including Young Scientist of the Year 2019 and the Oliphant Trophy—a first for a primary school student.

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In dinosaur news this week:

News from the final day of talks and posters at the 2019 meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
A large varied selection of dinosaur microfossils from the Alaskan Kakanaut Formation show that dinosaurs lived in the arctic year-round
After more restoration work, an alternative Allosaurus holotype is ready to be named
Siats and Moros finds show that Allosauroids and Tyrannosauroids coexisted in the cretaceous
We now have an excellent growth series of over 20 Sinornithomimus individuals from China
A coprolite “nugget” shows excellent preservation of at least two feather types and likely multiple ticks
More evidence shows that dinosaur diversity was very high up until the end-cretaceous extinction
By comparing LAGs in arm and leg bones, another study shows that Maiasaura was quadrupedal its whole life
A new Jurassic ankylosaur was found in Portugal
Two new ceratopsians were discovered in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument
A new "Super matrix" of crocodilians places some difficult taxa in a cladogram
An analysis of Dimetrodon (not a dinosaur) and its relatives shows the wide range of sizes that they came in
The Tate Geological Museum have found a couple of sauropod feet and a diplodocid skull
The Burke Museum in Washington has a new exhibit called Fossils Uncovered
A new animation shows how long dinosaurs lived, by tracing our solar system’s movement through the Milky Way Galaxy
Horse Archer Productions has a new web series, A Million Bones of Stone, the first episode is about Laelaps
Justice Smith and Daniella Pineda, who played Franklin and Zia, in Fallen Kingdom will be back for Jurassic World 3

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Coprolite (fossilized poop) with Karen Chin Nov 06, 2019

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Dinosaur of the day Anserimimus, The "goose mimic" from the Gobi Desert.

Interview with Karen Chin, Associate Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and Curator of Paleontology at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, and she's an expert in coprolites. Check out a video of her work here if you want to see more.

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In dinosaur news this week:

News from the 3rd day of talks at the 2019 meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Dinosaurs had many different skull, jaw muscle, and brain sizes, but we can only easily study the small group that survived the mass extinction
By using evo-devo we can now see how exactly bird skulls form around their brains
Non-avian Dinosaurs quickly evolved many different skulls and jaws, but they don’t always reflect their feeding strategies
We don’t see evidence of dinosaurs before the Carnian Pluvial Event, but fossil localities are limited
A new statistical approach may make it easier to separate male and female dinosaur fossils
Some quadrupedal dinosaurs had much larger hindfeet than front-feet, but the reason is still unclear
Massospondylus had very flexible growth rates, possibly indicating it was a “recovery taxa” taking advantage of the end Triassic extinction
New Triceratops excavations found rare remains beyond just the skull, allowing us to measure how they changed as they grew
Late cretaceous ceratopsian brains changed shape to allow for the massive neck muscles they needed to hold up their head
Australia has the best ankylosaurs from Gondwana including the new “Julia Creek” specimen
A new, larger, Liaoningosaurus fossil was found by a farmer in China
Microstructure of pachycephalosaur domes may show that they did but heads
In Casper, Wyoming, the Tate Geological Museum now has Nicole the Torosaurus on display
The Natural History Museum in London is taking student applications to study ceratopsian phylogeny
Austria is releasing a set of 12 glow in the dark 3-euro dinosaur coins
Mattel Films is partnering with Daniel Kaluuya’s production company to make a live action Barney the dinosaur movie
Jurassic World 3 will star DeWanda Wise and Mamoudou Athie, and will bring back characters Ian Malcolm, Ellie Sattler, and Alan Grant will be in the film

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Regurgitalites, sauropods with beaks, and dinosaur outreach Oct 31, 2019

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Dinosaur of the day Kritosaurus, a hadrosaur that was found over 100 years ago in New Mexico.

Interview with Scott Hartman, a paleo artist and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison for the Department of Integrative Biology. He’s done hundreds of skeletal drawings and his work has been featured in books, museums, and academic publications. Follow him on facebook or twitter @skeletaldrawing or skeletaldrawing.com

In dinosaur news this week:

News from poster sessions and 2nd day of talks at the 2019 meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Early Mesozoic herbivores filled in ecological niches that were left because of extinctions
Regurgitalites (fossilized vomit) are out there, and they can give just as much information as coprolites (fossilized poop)
Chemical testing of bones is looking to be a promising method of finding lost fossil localities
Scott Hocknull described three successful case studies of getting the public involved with dinosaur discoveries during construction projects and mining operations
Stuart Sumida showed an animation of evolution, using a Dimetrodon and other relatives
Ariel Marcy has a new collaborative game about the scientific method, similar to the game Pandemic
Taissa Rodrigues taught high schoolers in Brazil about evolution through paleo art
Emanuel Tschopp found that sauropods from the Morrison Formation did not overlap as much as previously thought
Kayleigh Wiersma showed that some sauropods may have had beaks in addition to their teeth
Les Hearn and Amanda Williams published a paper about pain in dinosaurs, and found a lot of dinosaurs survived injuries that would have hurt their mobility and ability to hunt or run away from predators
The Field Museum in Chicago has new sensory stations, including one where you can smell Sue the T. rex’s breath
There’s a grassroots effort in Westchester New York to protect land with dinosaur tracks and fossils
Austin, Texas, as a weird neon green dinosaur, known as Mangiasaurus rex
Special Spaces Cleveland and the Jurassic World Live tour worked together to design a dinosaur bedroom for Ezra Boggs, a 6-year-old with cancer
Lego has a new 910 piece Dinosaur Fossils set

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A new titanosaur from Kenya, footprints on Tyrants Aisle, and teaching evolution through paleoart Oct 23, 2019

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Dinosaur of the day Coloradisaurus, a Triassic sauropodomorph known from a nearly complete skull that was found in Argentina.

Interview with Taissa Rodrigues, from the Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo in Brazil. She presented a poster at SVP about teaching evolution using paleoart. She also led a session on women in paleontology and had a student present a poster on a pterosaur. Follow her on twitter @paleotaissa

Presentations from the first day of SVP:

New dating shows Lythronax argestes is older than previously thought, no longer coinciding with a global sea-level drop
There are tons of new sauropod fossil fields in southwest Queensland, Australia, near Eromanga
Probable ornithopod, ceratopsid, deinonychosaur, and tyrannosaur tracks were found on a 200ft cliff in Alaska
In Alberta, Tyrants Aisle has over 120 tracks likely belonging to Edmontosaurus, a troodontid, Tyrannosaurus, and another theropod
CT scans of track slabs shows how dinosaur feet moved through soft sediments
Laser-stimulated fluorescence (LSF) is being used to gather evidence of the first aerodynamically significant wings
A new track site shows a couple sauropods walking together when a larger sauropod skids to avoid squashing a smaller individual.
New sauropod finds in Hateg island Transylvania, Romania may be a fourth genus, but isn’t complete enough to get a new name
Dinosaurs and crocodiles have hard eggshells that evolved independently
A new titanosaur was found in NW Kenya
Low melanosome (color pigment producer) diversity may be linked to low metabolism
Compacted coarse cancellous bone (CCCB) that is common in burrowing animals was found in the hind limbs of a new Oryctodromeus relative
Exceptional fossils don’t necessarily translate to good cellular and molecular preservation
New opalized femur fragments from an ornithopod in lightening ridge show that young were born in the area
Melanosomes are not enough to determine color. Structure, chemistry, and diet also have a big impact
Calcium isotopes from Morocco and Niger support Spinosaurus as a fish-eater
More neornithischian finds from south of Melbourne may end with one or two synonymized taxa in the near future
New research shows ovarian follicles in an enantiornithine
A sauropod footprint was found in a new sauropod bone, adding to the idea of trampling sauropods
A dinosaur stampede like trackway was found near Quilpie, QLD, Australia
Coprolites can preserve some soft tissue features and other information about temperatures and habitats
The name Kamuysaurus is meant to mean that it is the god of Japanese dinosaurs based on its incredibly complete skeleton
Deep learning can process CT scans and save time on analyzing images
Equisetum, or horse tails, were probably the most nutritious food for young and adult sauropods
Birds use their necks in a variety of ways, but they tend to have a lot of traits in common

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Brand new allosauroid and a tyrannosaur that's still being excavated Oct 16, 2019

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Dinosaur of the day Nyasasaurus, a 240 million year old dinosauriform that may be the earliest known dinosaur.

Interview with Christopher DiPiazza, a science teacher, paleo artist, and creator of the popular site, Prehistoric Beast of the Week. He covers a different prehistoric animal (nearly) every week, with an original painting he creates, a photograph of the fossil, and whenever possible, input from a paleontologist who worked on that animal. Follow him on twitter or @ChrisDPiazza or Instagram.

In dinosaur news this week:

A new early cretaceous carcharodontosaurian, Siamraptor, was discovered in Thailand
Rebecca Jensen shared her database and map of Dinosaur National Monument with us
In St. George, Utah, carnivorous dinosaur footprints have been found from roughly 200 million years ago
The Las Vegas Natural History Museum announced their paleontology team found 240 million year old vertebrate tracks
The Dickinson’s Badlands Dinosaur Museum has a new find, a 77 million year old tyrannosaur
New fossils on display, including a juvenile Triceratops, adult Triceratops, and a hadrosaur
Maximus, a 70 million year old 3m long dinosaur recently sold for for about $227,000
Smithsonian Mag published a list of spots to dig for dinosaur bones
In Sacramento, California, a man in a Allosaurus costume stopped by a Sacramento City Hall
Supergirl star, Melissa Benoit, shared a photo of herself riding a dinosaur and hugging a T. rex

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A giant chicken and a tiny sauropodomorph Oct 09, 2019

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Dinosaur of the day Alioramus, a tyrannosaurid from Asia with nearly 80 teeth and 8 small horns on its snout.

In dinosaur news this week:

New alvarezsauroid, Shishugounykus inexpectus, was described from China
New Saurornitholestes specimens expand what we know about the genus and synonymize
Saturnalia skull and jaw bones were CT scanned and help show why its skull was small
Darwin and Dinosaurs exhibition opened in Idaho Falls
A giant chicken skeleton was installed at the Denver Central Library

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An amazing new T. rex and pterosaur Oct 02, 2019

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Dinosaur of the day Skorpiovenator, a slightly smaller hornless relative of Carnotaurus. It's one of the most complete abelisaurids found to date.

Interview with Dave Hone, lecturer in Zoology at Queen Mary University of London. He is an expert in both dinosaurs and pterosaurs. He wrote the Tyrannosaur Chronicles and just described the pterosaur Cryodrakon. Find him online @Dave_Hone, on facebook, or on his blog Archosaur Musings.

In dinosaur news this week:

A new study shows the first day of the Cenozoic had huge Sulphur emissions and widespread fires
The second most complete T. rex, Victoria, is going on a world tour for the next five years
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis has a new Jurassic Paleo Prep Lab
New children’s show called Super Dinosaur will be on Amazon on Oct 6
The game Jurassic World Evolution has a new herbivore dinosaur pack
The new short Jurassic World Battle at Big Rock was released on YouTube

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