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Opalised Australian dinosaur fossil studied using innovative 3D printing technology
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High-tech tools reveal opalized fossil skeleton by Flinders University, August 29, 202 Absolute gem of a find: Opalised dinosaur fossil studied using innovative 3D printing technology. The rare fossils may represent a new Australian dinosaur species Cosmos Magazine, August 29, 2022 Dinosaur Bones Shimmering With Opal Reveal a New Species in Australia A discovery in an Australian opal mine remained unexamined for three decades—it turned out to be the most complete opalized dinosaur skeleton in the world, Gemma Conroy, Smithsonian,June 3, 2019 “Opalized” Dinosaur Skeleton Discovered 30 Years Ago, Now Scientists Have Named the Species. One man was hunting gems and found a load of natural history instead. Rose Heichelbech, Dusty Ol Thing Bell, P.R., Brougham, T., Herne, M.C., Frauenfelder, T. and Smith, E.T., 2019. Fostoria dhimbangunmal, gen. et sp. nov., a new iguanodontian (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the mid- Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 39(1), p.e1564757. Yours, Paul H. -
Shuvuuia: Extraordinary Dinosaurs That Hunted in the Dark
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Shuvuuia: Extraordinary Dinosaurs That Hunted in the Dark University Of The Witwatersrand, SciTech Daily, May 7, 2021 The paper is: Choiniere, J.N., Neenan, J.M., Schmitz, L., Ford, D.P., Chapelle, K.E.J., Balanoff, A.M., Sipla, J.S., Georgi, J.A., Walsh, S.A., Norell, M.A. and Xu, X., 2021. Evolution of vision and hearing modalities in theropod dinosaurs. Science. Yours, Paul H. -
Research published last month looked at the nasal passages of two ankylosaurs, Panoplosaurus mirus and Euoplocephalus tutus. They found that their convoluted nasal passages would have been efficient heat exchange mechanisms. An article from The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/dinosaurs-breathed-through-long-tubes-in-their-noses/578512/ The paper: Jason M. Bourke, Wm. Ruger Porter, Lawrence M. Witmer Convoluted nasal passages function as efficient heat exchangers in ankylosaurs (Dinosauria: Ornithiscia: Thyreophora) Published December 19, 2018, PlosOne https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207381
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