T. rex as "trophy" + Mesetasaurus + Spicomellus + Allosaurus in museums + Phil Currie + Dimetrodon + more

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Jul 31, 2026, 4:55:54 PM (5 days ago) Jul 31
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Catching up on some recent items:

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What science loses when T. rex becomes a trophy, by Kristi Curry Rogers

https://theconversation.com/what-science-loses-when-t-rex-becomes-a-trophy-287334

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/15/nx-s1-5894586/mystery-bidder-buys-t-rex

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Your Friends The Titanosaurs: Mesetasaurus protector (plus news from Antarctica)

https://equatorialminnesota.blogspot.com/2026/07/your-friends-titanosaurs-mesetasaurus.html

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Suchomimus or Cristatusaurus? Which name should be used?

https://www.fossilcrates.com/blogs/news/suchomimus

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Suchomimus vs Cristatusaurus: One Dinosaur or Two?
Fossil Crates (video)
19 min.

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Suchomimus Size Mismatch?
Fossil Crates (video)
8 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIvySfltqGc

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Rating Spinosaurus' Sail Function Hypotheses
Factor Trace (video)
11 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bwyfaGOMzM

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British Columbia Gorgosaurus skull impressions
Remains of dinosaur skull found in B.C. campground belonged to T. rex ‘great-uncle’ Gorgosaurus

https://globalnews.ca/news/11972290/remains-of-dinosaur-skull-found-in-b-c-campground-belonged-to-t-rex-great-uncle/

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Rare duck-billed dinosaur tracks in Tumbler Ridge help tell story of ancient delta, says earth scientist

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Spicomellus Zoom talk with Cary Woodruff (click on green box) (video)
60 min.

https://coloscisoc.org/archives-2026/#2026-05

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Jurassic ankylosaur fossil, nearly complete, found in Portugal

In Portuguese:

After 35 Years, 152-Million-Year-Old Allosaurus 'Big Al' Returns Home To Wyoming

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/28/after-152-million-years-big-al-is-returning-to-his-digs-in-shell/

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Museum of the Rockies tech experts remodel Allosaurus Big Al's face
NBC Montana
2 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyzeiSD9Lxg

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How an Allosaurus from the Utah Desert Came to Princeton
In 1996, William W. Warner ’43 penned the story of alumni who dug fossils and forged friendships in the summer of 1941

https://paw.princeton.edu/article/how-dinosaur-utah-desert-came-princeton


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Rare Near-Perfect Wyoming Triceratops Skull Debuts In Netherlands Museum

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/20/rare-near-perfect-wyoming-triceratops-skull-debuts-in-netherlands-museum/

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Triceratops skull replica now on display at Rapid City Regional Airport

https://www.kotatv.com/2026/06/16/triceratops-skull-replica-now-display-rapid-city-regional-airport/

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Oxford University Museum of Natural History,
Oldest natural history museum completes redisplay

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gxqqqy72yo

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Presenting ‘Life, As We Know It’

https://morethanadodo.com/2026/07/27/presenting-life-as-we-know-it/

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Some dinosaurs could rise like giants until they grew too big
Some young sauropods could stand tall like giants, using their powerful hind legs to feed, fight, and impress

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260719231758.htm

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Not all dinosaurs laid the same type of egg – here’s how we know
Modern reptiles lay soft-shelled eggs. Birds lay hard-shelled eggs. What about dinosaurs?

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/dinosaur-eggs

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Scientists recreated a dinosaur nest and solved a 70-million-year-old mystery

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260621031409.htm

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Terrible Lizards Podcast: S12DB14 Inside an Oviraptor Nest!

https://terriblelizards.libsyn.com/inside-an-oviraptor-nest

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Sexual selection and the end of species recognition with Dave Hone

https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/sexual-selection-and-the-end-of-species-recognition/

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Paleo Nerds Episode 100: The Legendary Philip J. Currie and the Real Dinosaur Park
Ray and Dave celebrate their 100th episode of Paleo Nerds with the legendary paleontologist and co-founder of the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Philip J. Currie
72 min.

https://www.paleonerds.com/podcast/philipcurrie

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How Do You Name A Species? A Palaeontologist With A Dinosaur Named After Him Spills The Beans
Are there rules? And how do you know it's even new? We find out with Professor Paul Barrett.

https://www.iflscience.com/how-do-you-name-a-species-a-palaeontologist-with-a-dinosaur-named-after-him-spills-the-beans-84172

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Early Flowering Plants May Have Relied on Dinosaurs to Eat Their Fleshy Fruits and Spread Their Seeds

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/early-flowering-plants-may-have-relied-on-dinosaurs-to-eat-their-fleshy-fruits-and-spread-their-seeds-180989076/

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Nevada, Utah Aviators Help Airlift Dinosaur Fossils

https://nv.ng.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4531825/nevada-utah-aviators-help-airlift-dinosaur-fossils/

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Chinese fossil find shows birds shed their dinosaur tails step by step

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260702/p2g/00m/0sc/002000c

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A New Approach for Paleontologists When Identifying Vertebrae Fossils?

https://news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/a-new-approach-for-paleontologists-when-identifying-vertebrae-fossils/

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Solving One of the Oldest Problems in Paleontology, with James Napoli
Skeleton Crew (video)
52 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzuax9FsjVs&t=1316s

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Resolving the Ontogeny Problem: Juvenile or New Species? | Ft. Dr. James Napoli
People Are Fish and Skeleton Crew
113 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3scAwMaKT8

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Like an Ancient 'Turducken': Fossil Captures Cretaceous Sea Monsters Devouring Each Other

https://www.sciencealert.com/epic-turducken-fossil-reveals-ancient-sea-monsters-devouring-each-other  

Mosasaurs with Dr. Amelia Zietlow | Fossil Crates Live Ep. 5
Fossil Crates and Skeleton Crew
100 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9zuUzE9NGw

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First identification of a Mosasaur Premaxilla in Japan

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1136715

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260702/p2g/00m/0sc/002000c

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Not yet mentioned:
A recent book in German with text by Achim Schwermann and Sven Sachs, and illustrated by Joschua Knuppe:

Die Welt der Plesiosaurier. Paläontologische Abenteuer
[The World of the Plesiosaurs. Paleontological Adventure.]
74 pages of the 268-page book in German can be read in partial preview online at:

https://www.sachspal.de/de/publications/die-welt-der-plesiosaurier-palaeontologische-abenteuer/

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Terrible Lizards Podcast: S12DB16 T. rex bite marks, the new Spinosaurus model & the next dinosaur superstar?

https://terriblelizards.libsyn.com/t-rex-bite-marks-the-new-spinosaurus-model-the-next-dinosaur-superstar

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Andy Frazer’s Aquilops, and DinoCon 2026

https://svpow.com/2026/07/20/andy-frazers-aquilops-and-dinocon-2026/

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Local Paleoartist Captures BLM Dinosaur Death Struggle

https://www.blm.gov/blog/2026-07-28/local-paleoartist-captures-blm-dinosaur-death-struggle
 
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How Andrew Bovenzi Brought a Life-Size Dinosaur to the Museum of the Earth

https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2026/07/how-andrew-bovenzi-brought-a-life-size-dinosaur-to-the-museum-of-the-earth

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Scientists Just Found a Self-Inflicted Skull Injury in Dimetrodon, with Nathan Cochran,
People Are Fish (video)
22 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO5-BEmOgLk&t=94s

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VIDEOS:

New Series about Pangea
How Pangea Changed Everything
PBS Eons and PBS
27 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY8mipBWjyw
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Dimetrodon dig
The Hunt for the First Apex Predator to Rule the Land | Eons: Life and Death on Pangea
6 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTTyI_Rscss

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWriRbTp4bA&t=53s

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T. Rex Had Company: The Other Tiny-Armed Dinosaurs PhD student Charlie Scherer
People Are Fish
51 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC2LQzYQ2UE

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250 Million Year Old Fossilised Embryo Discovered! Lystrosaurus
People Are Fish
59 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPC4LdCNLK4&t=48s

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Baby T. rex the Size of a House Cat!
Fossil Crates
9 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUjoy2gXupA

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The 250-million year rise and fall of the dinosaurs | Steve Brusatte
Big Think
104 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk0VyaXjWXQ&t=146s

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Non-dino:

Tooth fossil analysis suggests ‘brawn before bite’ in early Asian mammals
Findings suggest placental mammals that lived in China following the most recent mass extinction evolved large teeth before developing more specialized dental structures associated with different diets

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North and South America weren’t always connected, but their mammals still found a way to intermingle

https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/07/30/north-and-south-america-werent-always-connected-but-their-mammals-still-found-a-way-to-intermingle/

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Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah greatly reduced, including dinosaur sites

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/what-to-know-about-trump-shrinking-2-national-monuments-in-utah

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-slashes-bears-ears-grand-staircase-escalante-national-monuments-for-second-time-2026-07-13/

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Blogs in Czech:

Over 1600 non-avian dinosaur species already described (including dubious and possibly invalid taxa):

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2026/07/13/cerstve-vylihly-tyranosaurus-byl-velky-jako-krkavec/
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Collagen found in the fossils of giant sauropod (Dreadnoughtus):

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Terror birds were still living during the Last Glacial Period:  
 
https://dinosaurusblog.com/2026/06/16/nepolapitelny-jester-s-pagetovou-kostni-chorobou/

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Blood vessels of the giant Tyrannosaurus rex "Scotty":

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Why we do know with certainty that dinosaurs were not wiped out by a supernova (explosion):

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2026/05/25/k-cemu-byla-spinosaurovi-jeho-hrbetni-plachta/

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Forgotten dinosaur extinction (the Jenkyns Event, 183 mya):

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Long-necked giant from the sacred mountain (Omeisaurus):

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2026/05/14/dlouhokrky-obr-od-posvatne-hory/
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Giant tyrannosaurines lived in North America millions of years before the T. rex:
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