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Last night I was flipping through Amazon Prime and found a Dinosaur documentary that I had not seen yet... https://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Francesco-Invernizzi/dp/B07V3X6L14 ...part way through I recognized one of the paleontologists as our very own, @jpc! I love a good Dinosaur flick and this one was worth watching...enjoy.
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New Feathered Carnivorous Dinosaur Found in Brazil by Enrico de Lazaro, Sci.News, July 14, 2020 http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/aratasaurus-museunacionali-08633.html Fossilised foot of a three-toed dinosaur that lived in Brazil 115 million years ago is identified as belonging to a new species that may be a forerunner of today's birds. Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8517113/Fossilised-foot-three-toed-dinosaur-lived-Brazil-115-million-years-ago-found.html The open access paper is: Sayão, J.M., Saraiva, A.Á.F., Brum, A.S., Bantim, R.A.M., de Andrade, R.C.L.P., Cheng, X., de Lima, F.J., de Paula Silva, H. and Kellner, A.W., 2020. The first theropod dinosaur (Coelurosauria, Theropoda) from the base of the Romualdo Formation (Albian), Araripe Basin, Northeast Brazil. Scientific Reports, 10(1), pp.1-15. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67822-9 Yours, Paul H.
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I dont mean to sound so ignorant but ive been watching some dino type shows on TV and I realized a question. On one of the shows a guy was pointing out the KT boundry. Then he goes on to say that below this boundry dinosaurs can be found and that above this bondry no dinosaurs can be found. On another show they were talking about how birds are decendants of the dinosaurs. So, my question is, How can birds have evovled from something that went extinct 65 million years ago? I know there must be a simple answer,,,,, but what the heck is it? RB
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Hi, I was wondering if anyone could identify this for me? it was found in the lance formation, and is just over an inch long.
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Ancient, endogenous amino acids reported from dinosaur eggshells (Río Colorado Formation, Auca Mahuevo, Argentina)
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Saitta, E.T., Vinther, J., Crisp, M.K., Abbott, G.D., Kaye, T.G., Pittman, M., Bull, I., Fletcher, I., Chen, X., Collins, M.J. and Sakalauskaite, J., 2020. Non-avian dinosaur eggshell calcite contains ancient, endogenous amino acids. bioRxiv 2020.06.02.129999 preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.02.129999 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.02.129999v1 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341881580_NON-AVIAN_DINOSAUR_EGGSHELL_CALCITE_CONTAINS_ANCIENT_ENDOGENOUS_AMINO_ACIDS https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Evan_Saitta Free pdf: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.02.129999v1.full.pdf Yours, Paul H.-
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I wanted to try some new spots that are closer to home, so a family here was nice enough to take me out to their land near Dinosaur Provincial Park and allow me to surface collect. I only kept two things (wasted a good portion of the day searching for tyrannosaur teeth to no avail) but I did find some neat stuff so I thought I’d share. Please excuse the circling and the caption, those were for Instagram. Nice & green this time of year. Won’t look like that for long. Heres something I found a few times today; random pits of petrified wood just shattered. Here’s a good 10 inch chunk that I kept. More petrified wood. Dino bones. Most of them were broken and difficult to tell what they were, as the dinosaur park area bones usually are. Please excuse the circling. It was for Instagram. This was the largest bone I seen today, was over 2 feet long most likely but it was at an awkward place so I didn’t climb any higher to get close. Excuse the caption. This one was fairly large as well. This one I kept because it was one of the only good condition bones that wouldn’t require excavation. Hadrosaur toe bone. (thanks jpc for the help)
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Perhaps the best dinosaur fossil ever discovered. So why has hardly anyone seen it?
Jaimin013 posted a topic in Fossil News
A good read even for those who already are up to speed. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/17/montana-fossilized-dueling-dinosaurs-skeletons-dino-cowboy- 16 replies
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I have a question, have any dinosaurs been found in Kothapalli, Maharashtra, India?
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Hello all, I am new to the fossil forum ( obviously). A little bit about myself: I have formal training and education in vertebrate Paleontology. I double majored in Geology/ Zoology in college and continued to get a Phd in vertebrate Paleontology. I was the adjunct professor of dinosaur Biology at the local community college until the shutdown. My specialization is theropod dinosaurs, but I have experience with a variety of fossil animals. My area of least experience is probably fossil mammals, so you will likely see me posting some pics of bones on here for second opinions. When it comes to dinosaurs I've worked with basically everything. If you can think of a dinosaur, I've probably dug up something like it. I've also worked on mapping sauropod and pterosaur tracks of the Morrison fm. Since moving to Oregon ( United States) I have had difficulty finding work in my fields of study, so I decided to start trying to survive on my own. I am a bit out of practice ( 5 years of not practicing paleo), but have recently started getting back into the swing of things. I have begun research into reconstructing paleo climate of the oregon coast using bivalve shells, specifically pecten, as a biological index for measuring chemical changes in sea water. I have mainly been looking into the newportian stage of the Astoria fm ( 15-18 million year old rocks). This represents the mid- Miocene. I have collected several vertebrate fossils on the coast, most of which haven't been prepped or I'd yet, but I know for a fact that I have a couple of whale vertebrae ( one juvenile, one mature) as well as a large juvenile pinniped/ walrus, a deep sea fish vert cross section ( complete with diploe), a section of shoulder blade and rib from (?), a vertebra from something like an otter, and a bone I have yet to make any decisions on. I look forward to getting to know all of you, and share knowledge.
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A new Antartica find! https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/science/1269192/antarctica-rainforest-dinosaur-CT-scan-below-ice-climate-change-south-pole-spt/amp.
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Here are a couple of dinosaur teeth (tyrannosauroid and hadrosaurid) from Bladen County, North Carolina.
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Hey Fossil Community! Finally stopped being lazy and joined The Forum. Long time follower, fossil hunter, collector, and advocate to grow the paleontological community. Looking forward to contributing on the forum, networking with you great people, and possibly getting some digs together! I actively support and go on digs with PaleoProspectors, collect and network with many people in the fossil community, and am part of the growing fossil community on Instagram. Feel free to reach out!
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Hello, I've put teeth here for Id a couple of times and always received a satisfactory answer. I hope you can help me this time too. It is about this Ceratopsidae tooth from the Niobrara Formationn (Wyoming). Unfortunately no fossils of this group are known from this formation and I therefore wanted to ask you if you have any idea what species of dinosaurs the tooth could belong to. The tooth is 1,5cm in size. I hope if you can help me with this! Best regards from Germany!
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Dinosaur stomping ground in Scotland reveals thriving middle Jurassic ecosystem
msantix posted a topic in Fossil News
Dinosaur fossils from the mid Jurassic are generally rare but the Isle of Skye in Scotland has revealed fossils sites preserving around 50 footprints on ancient coastal mudflats. The footprints suggest that Stegosaurs and possible ancient cousins of duck billed dinosaurs were living in the Isle of Skye around 170mya along with large Sauropods & Carnivores, suggesting a high diversity of dinosaurs from the mid Jurassic in Scotland. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200311140536.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ffossils_ruins%2Fpaleontology+(Paleontology+News+--+ScienceDaily) The Journal article is listed below and is open access https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0229640 1. dePolo PE, Brusatte SL, Challands TJ, Foffa D, Wilkinson M, Clark NDL, et al. Novel track morphotypes from new tracksites indicate increased Middle Jurassic dinosaur diversity on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. PLOS ONE, 2020- 2 replies
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From the album: My Collection
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The Royal Mint, United Kingdom, is releasing three new dinosaur-themed coins
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
British dinosaurs to feature on UK money for the first time By Josh Davis, Natural History Museum, February 2020 https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/february/british-dinosaurs-to-feature-on-coins.html Yours, Paul H.- 7 replies
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hi, I'm a student from Belgium. I've been searching the internet and I can't find any unprepared fossils for sale, can you help me out?
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Licking dinosaur fossils: how does licking rocks help us identify them as fossils?
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Greetings kind people, I'm so sorry if this is such a noob question. But I've searched and searched but I couldn't find answers to these on internet. (kindly correct me because I feel I maybe wrong): Smithsonian website said licking dinosaur fossil helps in identifying between a rock or a fossil... But isn't fossil a rock in itself? Fossils are made because minerals get replaced and it's not possible for bone to remain in its original state for millions of years. So, it's not the original material anymore.. so licking a fossil should equal to licking a rock? In that case, licking should not work? -
How Did an Ancient Sea Turtle End Up Under a Dinosaur’s Foot?
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
How Did an Ancient Sea Turtle End Up Under a Dinosaur’s Foot? Joshua Sokol, trilobites, New York Times, Sept. 5, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/science/dinosaur-crushed-sea-turtle.html Püntener, C., Billon-Bruyat, J.P., Marty, D. and Paratte, G., 2019. Under the feet of sauropods: a trampled coastal marine turtle from the Late Jurassic of Switzerland?. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 112(2-3), pp.507-515.? PDF: https://paleorxiv.org/2atnq/ abstract: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00015-019-00347-0 Yours, Paul H.- 4 replies
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The Museo Paleontologico Egidio Feruglio- Trelew, Argentina
Jeffrey P posted a topic in A Trip to the Museum
Last week I spent ten days visiting Argentina. Most of that time was spent in Patagonia. Argentina does not allow any private fossil collecting, so this wasn't going to be that kind of trip. On our way back from visiting a penguin colony at Punta Tombo we stopped in Trelew whose number one attraction is the Museo Paleontoligico Egidio Feruglio. It primarily features fossils from Patagonia, dinosaurs and mammals, plus Permian age plants, petrified wood, etc. I got to spend a quick hour there and took some photos. Most of the labels were in Spanish and I didn't have time to take notes. Hope you enjoy what I was able to get:.thumb.JPG.a18fe0fe080619b337e192327c6e54f1.JPG)
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Greetings kind people, I am a complete novice in the field of fossil collecting. Kindly bear with me. My objective for collecting fossils: I want to learn paleontology work. I want to observe the fossils under a microscope, understand their body structure, their food habits.... Basically get a *whole story of the fossil* which I own, something that paleontologists do (I also want to explore all the methods that paleontologists use to study fossil and recreate them at home). So any fossil that will enable me to learn more about itself, I'd surely buy that. And also fossils which are more closer to actuality, rather than rare or good looking fossils. So any fossil that reveals more information is favoured over rare or good-looking fossils So here are my questions: 1) I'm trying to buy a spinosaur tooth. The seller is selling one spinosaur tooth which is red in colour for a higher price compared to a spinosaur tooth which looks almost like a rock. So is the red colour tooth more authentic or more valuable etc? Or is it just the same? My objective is to study those fossils under microscope. So if the red spinosaur tooth will provide more information, I'd buy that. 2) I see some dinosaur tooth still having some enamel. How is this possible? I mean shouldn't enamel be replaced by minerals too? Or is the enamel the only thing that is intact? If it is intact does it mean I'm holding a tooth which might have bit another dinosaur moments before it died and I can see the traces of that activity when I observe under the microscope? 3) I've seen polished ammonites which were split open. They carried a lot of information within, compared to unpolished ammonite. Which among those two types would reveal more information about the ammonite itself? Or which one should I go for, in general? 4)I am also planning to buy amber fossils. Some pointers and what to look for and what to keep away from would be appreciated. 5) Lastly, trilobites. How are trilobite fossils so well preserved? I've seen reedops protruding out of the rock like it's actually alive. But I read something about cast fossils and enhancements. So if I buy a reedops trilobite, does it mean it's been remade using plaster etc, or is it just as it is? Please bear in mind that I want to own fossils which closely resembles actuality Thank you so much for bearing with my silly doubts .I just want to educate myself and be an amateur paleontologist, studying fossils from home. Have a lovely day! P.s- I can upload some pictures and website links if need be.
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Greetings kind people, Hope you are having a nice day:) There was a similar thread posted around the same topic, but a lot of those websites could not meet all my requirements so I'm here to seek help I'm looking for websites which are: 1) reliable and reputable 2) very inexpensive 3) ship internationally (particularly India) with good packaging and reasonable prices 4) good quality and vast collection 5) can provide most of my requirements in a single order(since I'll be shipping it to India, it would be economical to order everything from single website to cut down on transportation costs). I'll take down the post in case of violations of the guidelines. Please do let me know. Thanks in advance:)
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Yale University. "In death of dinosaurs, it was all about the asteroid -- not volcanoes." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 16 January 2020. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200116141708.htm Meteorite or Volcano? New Clues to the Dinosaurs’ Demise Twin calamities marked the end of the Cretaceous period, and scientists are presenting new evidence of which drove one of Earth’s great extinctions. New York Times, January 16, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/science/dinosaurs-extinction-meteorite-volcano.html The paper is: Hull, P.M., Bornemann, A., Penman, D.E., Henehan, M.J., Norris, R.D., Wilson, P.A., Blum, P., Alegret, L., Batenburg, S.J., Bown, P.R. and Bralower, T.J., 2020. On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous- Paleogene boundary. Science, 367(6475), pp.266-272. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6475/266.abstract Yours, Paul H.
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Below is the a paper that provides the details of looking for dinosaurs with a gamma scintillator. Jones, R.R. and Chure, D.J., 1998. The recapitation of a Late Jurassic theropod dinosaur. GAIA: revista de geociências, (15), p.103-110. http://www.arca.museus.ul.pt/ArcaSite/obj/gaia/MNHNL-0000774-MG-DOC-web.PDF Other publications Jones, R.D. and Burge, D., 1995, January. Radiological surveying as a method for mapping dinosaur bone sites. In Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Vol. 15, suppl. 3, pp. 38A-38A) Yours, Paul H.
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Non avian dinosaurs and birds may have benefited from decreasing body size and adding thermoregulation during Jurassic times https://m.phys.org/news/2020-01-dinosaurs-evolution-endothermy-birds.html
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