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Old 25-10-2015, 20:26
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A load of links - far too much has happened over the last two weeks to list them all (it has been SVP 2015) but here are just a few.

http://www.livescience.com/52538-sup...sauropods.html

http://www.livescience.com/52506-texas-supershark.html

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...odactylus.html

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...continues.html

http://www.livescience.com/52521-fos...xtinction.html

http://svpow.com/2015/10/19/how-ligh...azhdarchid-be/

https://asunow.asu.edu/20151021-disc...speak-dinosaur

http://svpow.com/2015/10/20/which-wa...gest-dinosaur/

http://www.livescience.com/52510-ado...-rex-jane.html

http://www.livescience.com/52505-anc...ile-teeth.html

http://www.livescience.com/52484-anc...mmal-hair.html

http://www.livescience.com/52480-bab...gons-tomb.html
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Old 26-10-2015, 02:52
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More links before I go to kip - including picky sauropod parents, a remarkable pig-nosed turtle and more fighting apatosaurs.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....storic-turtle/

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....rmous-turkeys/

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....-dragons-tomb/

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....the-dinosaurs/

http://svpow.com/2015/09/28/fighting...5-mark-witton/

http://svpow.com/2015/09/30/fighting...that-got-away/

http://svpow.com/2015/10/22/fighting...-world-speaks/
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Old 27-10-2015, 11:59
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This is very interesting indeed - two incredibly well preserved Cave Lion cubs have been discovered.

I am sure that there is far more to come on this story in the near future.

http://siberiantimes.com/science/oth...000-years-old/
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Old 29-10-2015, 22:03
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An early common ancestor of modern hominoids has been discovered.

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-primate...ee-extant.html

http://news.discovery.com/human/evol...ong-151029.htm

http://www.livescience.com/52630-pho...e-primate.html
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Old 31-10-2015, 21:46
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Cannibal Tyrannosaurs, permafrost animal mummies and more on our own evolutionary history.

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-tyranno...aur-world.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...u-eat-science/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...ost-180957097/

https://twilightbeasts.wordpress.com...-little-china/
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Old 01-11-2015, 08:51
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A huge new Dromaeosaurid from the Hell creek formation of North America - Dakotaraptor steini.

A raptor of this size is very interesting in a land populated by Tyrannosaurs - Hell Creek was not a place you would want to visit in a hurry - unless you were Ronnie ****** Pickering.

https://www.fossilera.com/blog/first...reek-formation

http://novataxa.blogspot.co.uk/2015/...otaraptor.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakotaraptor
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Old 05-11-2015, 22:16
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More on Dakotaraptor and some other recent stories - including the incredible fact that carnivorous dinosaurs had an even wider gape than bloody Tracie Hopkins!

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...957166/?no-ist

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...e-south-dakota

http://www.livescience.com/52679-rap...th-dakota.html

http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2015/nove...saur-diet.html

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....ur-a-new-look/

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-frogs-e...an-fossil.html
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Old 07-11-2015, 00:12
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Even more on Dakotaraptor - this was one lightening fast and utterly lethal killing machine.

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-dakotar...on-lethal.html

A few nice reconstructions of the beast.

http://orig06.deviantart.net/dc90/f/...ht-d9fpbgn.png

http://orig08.deviantart.net/1bae/f/...by-d9exsm7.jpg

http://orig15.deviantart.net/bf76/f/...by-d9f34go.jpg

http://img08.deviantart.net/c530/i/2...is-d9ewtr5.jpg

http://img04.deviantart.net/ada9/i/2...ni-d9fjhm4.jpg
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Old 09-11-2015, 19:50
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The incredible discovery of 520 million old arthropod brains, filter feeding plesiosaurs, the brutal, dangerous world of baby dinosaurs and an ancient 'fire frog'.

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-million...eontology.html

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...ale-180957211/

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....rld-of-danger/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...ssils-mammals/
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Old 11-11-2015, 19:32
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Giant rats (recently killed off by humans), a flashy five ton 'superduck' and a Shasta ground sloth beautifully preserved thanks to a huge pile of batshit.

http://www.livescience.com/52757-gia...ils-found.html

http://news.discovery.com/animals/di...est-151111.htm

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....rial-in-guano/
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Old 11-11-2015, 19:39
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Here's a big one:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...nd-giant-karoo
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Old 12-11-2015, 18:06
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What is so interesting about this beast is that it may well be the heaviest obligate biped yet discovered.

Fouteen tons is a hell of a lot of weight to carry around on two legs.
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Old 13-11-2015, 17:39
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More theories on the brutal battles of male Apatosaurs.

Now formerly dubbed the Brontosmash on the net!

Just imagine these massive animals each weighing dozens of tons colliding in furious, damaging and violent conflict for mating rights and sexual dominance.

A harem for the victor and the chance to pass on his genes to the next generation.

Agony, shattered bones, ripped bleeding hide, humiliation and the possibility of being slowly eaten alive by opportunist theropods for the loser.

But all's fair in love and war.

http://antediluviansalad.blogspot.co...r-violent.html
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Old 17-11-2015, 19:28
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I hope that is not permanent and that you will be with us again .

And now for something really yucky; yes, it's dino vomit time:

Dinosaur Puke Fossil Mystery Deepens
A small, unusual skeleton in fossilized dinosaur yak discovered back in 1989 might not be the creature we thought it was after all. So what actually got caught in this prehistoric upchuck? Italian scientists tackle one heck of a cold case.
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Old 17-11-2015, 19:34
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I hope that is not permanent and that you will be with us again .

And now for something really yucky; yes, it's dino vomit time:

Dinosaur Puke Fossil Mystery Deepens
A small, unusual skeleton in fossilized dinosaur yak discovered back in 1989 might not be the creature we thought it was after all. So what actually got caught in this prehistoric upchuck? Italian scientists tackle one heck of a cold case.
apparently it is permanent
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Old 17-11-2015, 19:46
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Old 17-11-2015, 19:48
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I'm sure he would appreciate any posts though i know he was upset at the thought of the threads dying off after he'd put so much work into them.
more posts about puke and poo!!!!!!
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Old 17-11-2015, 22:30
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Blimey!
Keyser Soze must've had an evil side to him!
Hhhhmmm - actually given his name, I suppose that was quite likely

Shame, I thought his work on this thread quite enlightening.
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Old 18-11-2015, 03:56
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I've been looking at those links and they're fascinating. I had no idea we had so much factual information about dinosaurs. I'm ashamed to say I almost thought they were mythical creatures, or at least that most of the information about them was speculation. Now I see there are thousands of fossils - amazing.

Does anyone know if we know for sure that they were wiped out in a meteor strike? Or are there alternative theories about why they're not around today.
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Old 18-11-2015, 06:48
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I hope not. We need to keep this thread going in his honour.
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Old 21-11-2015, 18:05
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Yes, it's fossil time again but with a difference - it's fossil trees:

Fossilized Tropical Forest Found — in Arctic Norway
A tropical forest densely packed with 12-foot-tall trees with flared trunks and curved branches of needle leaves — Dr. Seuss would have felt right at home — covered an area near the equator some 380 million years ago. Scientists spotted the fossilized stumps a long way from this location — in Arctic Norway. Not only did the researchers date the forest as one of Earth's oldest, but they also suggest it may have contributed to a dramatic drop in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels traced to that time in our planet's distant past.

There are actually a number of tree species that survived the dinosaur era intact and they can be freely bought and planted out for novelty value (with the landowner's permission, of course)

The Pinosaur - https://www.google.co.uk/#q=buy+woll...UK%7CcountryGB

Ginkgo biloba - https://www.google.co.uk/#cr=country...uy+ginkgo+tree
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Old 28-11-2015, 16:15
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Yeah, it's time for some more old, boney things:

Fossil skull CT scan sheds light on how snakes lost their legs. Ancestors of snakes lost their limbs to help them wriggle through burrows, research suggests. A new study of a 90 million-year-old fossil skull from Argentina may have solved the mystery of what happened to snake legs, scientists believe.

A landmark announcement in the early study of dinosaurs was made in Hampshire, not London, it has emerged. Gideon Mantell was thought to have revealed a find of Iguanodon teeth fossils in a letter to the London Society in February 1825. However, palaeontologist Martin Simpson unearthed a report of it mentioned at a meeting in Portsmouth, two months prior to the publication.

Were dinosaur nests buried or open? We know that dinosaurs laid eggs, but did they bury their nests as crocodiles do, or leave them open and exposed, like birds? New research has some answers.

Computer simulations have allowed scientists to work out how a puzzling 555-million-year-old organism with no known modern relatives fed, revealing that some of the first large, complex organisms on Earth formed ecosystems that were much more complex than previously thought.

Dimetrodon borealis: First Canadian Dino Actually Mammal-Like Reptile. A ‘dinosaur’ fossil known as Bathygnathus borealis has been shown to have steak knife-like teeth, and a team of Canadian paleontologists has changed its scientific name to Dimetrodon borealis.
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Old 28-11-2015, 16:22
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Thanks for keeping this thread going, Keyser will be happy. I love reading it.
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