Scotty the T. rex + Egg Mountain + sauropods + Plesionectes + Mirasaura + mass extinctions + more
Ben Creisler
Ben Creisler
Catching up on some recent items:
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Saskatchewan researchers discover how Scotty the T. Rex may have healed from injuries
CBC News Saskatchewan
3 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX144oar-EM&t=2s
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I’m a physicist who studies fossils, and I recently discovered preserved blood vessels in the world’s largest T. rex
Finding the King ("Scotty" the T. rex)
Royal Saskatchewan Museum (video)
13 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4yHjSiFd-k
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T. rex Was a Bone-Crusher, But Other Giant Dinosaurs Were Precision Slayers
https://scitechdaily.com/t-rex-was-a-bone-crusher-but-other-giant-dinosaurs-were-precision-slayers/
https://www.earth.com/news/giant-dinosaur-skulls-reveal-unique-hunting-strategies/
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Paleontologists Identify a 'Rapacious' Velociraptor Relative With Powerful Hands and a Strong Bite
Acrocanthosaurus tracks found after devastating Texas floods
https://www.kut.org/science/2025-08-07/austin-tx-dinosaur-footprint-fossil-flood
https://abcnews.go.com/US/dinosaur-footprints-115-million-years-ago-found-after/story?id=124483825
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First Multispecies Tracksite Discovered in Dinosaur Provincial Park
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Paleontologists Discover First Evidence of Multispecies Dinosaur Herding
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/multispecies-dinosaur-herd-footprints-14097.html
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Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry
Thomas Richard Holtz
GEOL204 students Liam Driver, Ryan Kearns, Makenna Khandagle, and Liam Trump discuss the geology and paleontology of the Cleveland Dinosaur Quarry
7 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cek7iBkeF2o
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Paleo Nerds Podcast: Ep #88 Unearthing Egg Mountain’s Dinosaur Nursery: Field Insights from Montana with John Scannella
Dave goes out on a dig at the famous Egg Mountain site in western Montana with Dr. John Scannella, curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies.
https://www.paleonerds.com/podcast/johnscannella
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Oddity from Alabama creek is tooth of hadrosaur dinosaur that reached 30 feet, experts say
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-oddity-alabama-creek-tooth-dinosaur.html
https://www.al.com/news/2025/08/very-rare-84-million-year-old-dinosaur-tooth-found-in-alabama-creek.html
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Scanasaurus? CMMC helps paleontologists attempt to see dinosaur bone inside rock
https://www.lewistownnews.com/news/scanasaurus-cmmc-helps-paleontologists-attempt-to-see-dinosaur-bone-inside-rock/article_daf0a953-5806-4597-83b7-9ca6e98a4f00.html
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Where giants rest: Paleontologists flock to remote Natrona County location in Wyoming in search of a dinosaur (sauropod)
https://county17.com/2025/08/06/where-giants-rest-paleontologists-flock-to-remote-natrona-county-location-in-search-of-a-dinosaur/
https://oilcity.news/community/feature/2025/08/06/where-giants-rest-paleontologists-flock-to-remote-natrona-county-location-in-search-of-a-dinosaur/
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ANG 25 SauropOooOde !
Camarasaurid find at Angeac-Charente in France (with video)
(in French and English)
https://petitcarnetpaleo.blogspot.com/2025/08/ang-25-sauropoooode.html
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A PDF of Kingham (1962) on Astrodon
https://svpow.com/2025/08/28/a-pdf-of-kingham-1962-on-astrodon/
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Terrible Lizards Podcast: TLS11E08 Sauropodcast Spectacular! with Matt Wedel
https://terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls11e08-sauropodcast-1
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Sauropod dinosaur body plan for DinoCon 2025
https://svpow.com/2025/08/17/sauropod-dinosaur-body-plan-for-dinocon-2025/
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Matt’s DinoCon 2025 adventure
https://svpow.com/2025/08/27/matts-dinocon-2025-adventure/
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The very first #DinoConUK!
https://svpow.com/2025/08/18/the-very-first-dinoconuk/
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Dinocon with downloaded brochure with abstracts
https://www.dinocon.co.uk/brochure-2025
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DinoCon 2025 is next week
https://svpow.com/2025/08/07/dinocon-2025-is-next-week/
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Program for the 10th International Symposium about Dinosaurs Palaeontology and their Environment (in Spanish and English)
PROGRAMA DE LAS X JORNADAS INTERNACIONALES SOBRE PALEONTOLOGÍA DE DINOSAURIOS Y SU ENTORNO
SALAS DE LOS INFANTES (BURGOS) · 3-6 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025
with link to program:
https://fundaciondinosaurioscyl.blogspot.com/2025/08/programa-de-las-x-jornadas.html
Also:
https://fundaciondinosaurioscyl.blogspot.com/2025/08/plazo-de-inscripcion-de-las-x-jornadas.html
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PaleostreamCon 2025 Joschua Knüppe YouTube videos:
Tanis, the spring surprise / Melanie During
21 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks4uDtpS6Nw
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Upland cave tyrants and friends / Denis Thed (Balve site in Germany)
22 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F04cHwPEFA
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Oldest known docodontan fossil found in Greenland narrows the evolutionary gap
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-oldest-docodontan-fossil-greenland-narrows.html
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Named for its razor-like teeth, Novaculadon mirabilis came from a rodent-like order that outlived the dinosaur extinction before vanishing...
Novaculadon: Fossil Shows a Sharp-Toothed Mammal That Thrived Among Dinosaurs
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/science/novaculadon-mammal-fossil.html
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Terrible Lizards Podcast TLS11E07 Flappy Flap Bum Flaps--Pterosaur soft tissues with Dave Hone
https://terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls11e07-flappy-flap-bum-flaps
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Akidostropheus: Paleontologists name new species of reptile in Petrified Forest
https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/new-species-reptile-petrified-forest/
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Plesionectes, an unusual early-diverging plesiosauroid (with video)
https://peerj.com/blog/post/115284890145/article-spotlight-an-unusual-early-diverging-plesiosauroid/
https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/most-remarkable-fossil-of-jurassic-sea-monster-from-germany-is-previously-unknown-species
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Fearsome apex predator, or, skulking squid sucker? Who the hell was Temnodontosaurus?
RealPaleontology
8 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrwt5buK9wo&t=69s
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Temnodontosaurus (in German)
Ein gefräßiger Räuber aus dem Frühen Jura (A dangerous predator from the Early Jurassic)
https://www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/forschung/science-news/detailansicht/ein-gefraessiger-raeuber-aus-dem-fruehen-jura
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A unique treasure of Earth history: The Paleontology Collection of Tübingen, Germany
Timothy Jones (video)
22 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rqhRX1TqAA
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Longisquama and Mirasaura
https://qilong.wordpress.com/2025/08/02/the-written-stone/
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„Wundersaurier“ Mirasaura
https://www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/forschung/projekte/mirasaura
https://www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/press/detailansicht/a-wonder-fossil-changes-our-understanding-of-reptile-evolution
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Fresh fossil finds in Africa shed light on the era before Earth’s largest mass extinction
https://www.washington.edu/news/2025/08/11/permian-pangea-fossil-finds/
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Fossils from Tanzania and Zambia Shed Light on End-Permian Mass Extinction
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/tanzania-zambia-fossils-end-permian-mass-extinction-14128.html
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Seymour paleontologists unearth extremely rare Dimetrodon skull (with video)
https://www.newschannel6now.com/2025/07/25/seymour-paleontologists-unearth-extremely-rare-fossil/
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Taxonomic diversity and development of Late Carboniferous amphibamiforms from the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte with Cal So
ESCONI Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois (video)
54 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEQ43d79rdg
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A closer look at the “Natural History Museum of North America”
https://extinctmonsters.net/2025/08/09/a-closer-look-at-the-natural-history-museum-of-north-america/
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Andy Farke and Matt Wedel geek out over Jurassic World Rebirth
https://svpow.com/2025/08/08/andy-farke-and-matt-wedel-geek-out-over-jurassic-world-rebirth/
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Tracing Impacts of Mass Extinctions
Inaugural Lecture of Professor Jennifer Botha
Wits University Streaming (video)
63 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjPQfqNLX1A
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Palaeo How-To: How are Fossils Found?
https://dinomuseum.ca/2025/07/palaeo-how-to-how-are-fossils-found
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Palaeocast: Origin of Teeth Part 1 with Dr Yara Haridy, University of Chicago
https://www.palaeocast.com/origin-of-teeth/
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WONDERS OF THE PETRIFIED FOREST
Prehistoric Parade with Dr. Donald Prothero (video)
10 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAxnCdpPSkw
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The Mysterious Mass Extinction Hidden in LA
PBS Terra
11 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhvP19QNqTE
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How Crocodilians Just Keep on Surviving
SciShow (video)
7 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9upLFT87CE&t=15s===
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A new sabertooth extinction story
RealPaleontology (video)
11 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M79FvGunU1A
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Langebaanweg Part 3 – An Animal Archive
Palaeocast blog
https://www.palaeocast.com/langebaanweg-part-3/
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Painting Prototaxites: Restoring the appearance of giants / Julianne Kiely (video)
21 min.