Dinosaur science + Manipulonyx + Doolysaurus + Alcovasaurus + Monsters Down Under (animation) + more

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Ben Creisler

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Apr 7, 2026, 6:04:24 PMApr 7
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Catching up on some recent items

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Mourning for dinosaurs, 65 million years too late [make that 66!]

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The revolution in dinosaur science started 50 years ago – here’s what we have learned by Michael J. Benton & Emily Rayfield
[Who chose the inaccurate image??]

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150 Million Years of Dinosaur Evolution #datavisualization
American Museum of Natural History (video)
7 min.

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The Real Dinosaurs Were MUCH Weirder Dave Hone
New Scientist
59 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9zdfTheD_c

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Does The World's Most Famous Dinosaur Have The Wrong Name?
PBS Eons (video)
14 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFC-XW4j1ek 

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The Nazi sauropod — Giraffatitan (= “Brachiosaurus“) brancai in 1937
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Giant Fossil Supersaurus Pelvis Returns to Paleontology Museum
BYU Department of Geological Sciences
1 min.

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Small, Stubby-Armed Dinosaurs Have Confounded Paleontologists. Are Answers Finally Within Reach? By Riley Black
Recent discoveries about an alvarezsaur called Manipulonyx have drawn renewed attention to this group of bird-like, clawed creatures and the mysteries around their anatomy and behavior

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/small-stubby-armed-dinosaurs-have-confounded-paleontologists-are-answers-finally-within-reach-180988115/

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Meet Doolysaurus, the small (and maybe fuzzy) new dinosaur discovered by UT Austin researchers
Doolysaurus gives scientists more insight into connections in lineages between species in North America and Asia.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2026/03/23/546827/meet-doolysaurus-the-small-and-maybe-fuzzy-new-dinosaur-discovered-by-ut-austin-researchers/

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Alcovasaurus: The Wyoming Dinosaur That Almost Went Extinct Again After Discovery

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/03/01/alcovasaurus-the-wyoming-dinosaur-that-almost-went-extinct-again-after-discovery/

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CT Scanning Dinosaurs with Dr. Lawrence Witmer (with Q&A) | Fossil Crates Live Ep. 1
117 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttTRzdymQhc&t=867s

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Identifying Dinosaur Species with Dr. James Napoli | Fossil Crates Live Ep. 2
55 min.


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Paleo Nerds Podcast Ep #96 Nanotyrannus vs. Juvenile T-rex Solved with James Napoli
79 min.

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

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What's the deal with Stygivenator?
Skeleton Crew
43 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YcmmAkK6CU&t=115s 

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Corythosaurus: Beast of the Week

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Elasmosaurus: Beast of the Week

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Jurassic Ichthyosaur Fossil Found in Cuba

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CT Scans Solve Decades-Old Mystery of Triassic Cynodont Cistecynodon

https://www.sci.news/paleontology/cistecynodon-parvus-14643.html

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Palaeocast Episode 173: Petrified Forest with Adam Marsh
49 min.

https://www.palaeocast.com/petrified-forest/ 

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Palaeontology and the Evolution of Snakes Dr. Michael W. Caldwell, University of Alberta, March 12, 2026.
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

63 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3ZNs7vduHs&t=14s

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Lessons from the National Museum of Natural History Deep Time evaluation

https://extinctmonsters.net/2026/03/19/lessons-from-the-deep-time-evaluation/

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Utahraptor State Park is named for a famous dinosaur. But the park is more than just its fossils.

https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/utahraptor-state-park-22087765.php

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Paleo Nerds Podcast Ep #95 From Fossils to Film and the Science of Motion with Stuart Sumida

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Speculative Zoology’s 21st Century Redemption at the High Table: the 2025 Edition of Dougal Dixon’s The New Dinosaurs

https://tetzoo.com/blog/2026/3/17/2025-dougal-dixon-the-new-dinosaurs

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In Czech:

How big was a giant snake Titanoboa:

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Stenonychosaurus and its highly intelligent descendants:


T. rex was walking like a chicken:


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Evolutionary history of lagomorphs:

Virtual Reality in Science and Education II: Dinosaurs with William Schmachtenberg
Scientia : Science and Anthropology videos
52 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkYVaX7KKQ8

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"Monsters Down Under" | Dinosauria Series | Animated Short Film (2026)
Dead Sound
16 min.

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Do "Pre-existing Conditions" Prime the Earth for Mass Extinction? with Corinne Myers, University of New Mexico
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
58 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JJ3ocsneiA


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The Fossil Files Podcast  25. A dinosaur covered in porcupine spines & the earliest fossil cloaca
32 min.
NEIL SHUBIN THE ORIGIN OF ORGANS 500 MILLION YEARS OF EVOLVING EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE
Embodied Intelligence Conference
54 min.

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

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Teratornis: The Biggest Eagle That Ever Lived
Hutchings Museum
13 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiyLaqBP0ks&t=28s

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Reforming peer reviews

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A primer on the Sternbergs

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Philip Currie: Questioning Everything

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Free pdf:

Editorial

Jack A. Cooper (2026)
Research reveals news coverage of palaeontology in the 1990s was driven primarily by narratives, mascot species and gender bias
Historical Biology (advance online publication)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2026.2653364
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2026.2653364 

Gregory Paul

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Apr 8, 2026, 10:01:03 AMApr 8
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https://youtu.be/mIQJHpjOQhY?si=f2G9ohGWjo2vCKxg

(When you see predator-prey combat, shoot landscape, not portrait, duh.)

Although protected by armor and able to use its teeth, the croc is so exhausted by its low aerobic exercise capacity that it can barely make it to the water, has to belly slide. It's anaerobic burst power has run out. Meanwhile the remain are in full tachyaerobic high sustained activity mode.  

This is the dinosaurs were metabolic reptiles activity model that was proposed by Ruben and company back in the 1990s. Theropods had croc-style liver pump lung systems you see. Really, they did. 

GSPaul


Jerry Harris

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Apr 8, 2026, 10:17:23 AMApr 8
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One more of possible interest:

Researcher Spotlight: Micro-CT to Characterize Cervical Ligament Systems in Sauropod Dinosaurs

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