Uriash and Transylvanian titanosaurs + Morrison Formation dino eggs and nests + orissdinosaur behavior + tyrannosaur injuries + Utah dinosaur eggs +

[Ben Creisler]

Ben Creisler

bcre...@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Your Friends The Titanosaurs: Petrustitan hungaricus and Uriash kadici (and every other Transylvanian titanosaur)

https://equatorialminnesota.blogspot.com/2025/02/your-friends-titanosaurs-petrustitan-uriash.html

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Uriash and Transylvanian titanosaurs

https://sauropoda.blogspot.com/2025/02/about-transylvanian-titanosaur-paper-by.html 

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Large-Bodied Sauropod Dinosaur Lived on Cretaceous European Island

https://www.sci.news/paleontology/uriash-kadici-13695.html

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Dr. James Kirkland - Eggs, Nests, and Dinosaur Behaviour: Evidence from the Morrison Formation
Alberta Palaeontological Society (video)
79 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNSQecSp40o

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How palaeontologists are uncovering dinosaur behaviour (Dave Hone)

https://theconversation.com/how-palaeontologists-are-uncovering-dinosaur-behaviour-246702

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Broken, Bruised, and Bitten: Survival Tales of Tyrannosaur Injuries with Christiana Garros 
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (video)
41 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDgdP22sVpE 

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Meet North America’s oldest dino Ahvaytum: Found in Wyoming, named in Shoshone language
Ancient fossils found near Dubois have scientists rethinking the lifespan of reptiles — and how to include Native communities in paleontology.

https://wyofile.com/meet-north-americas-oldest-dino-found-in-wyoming-named-in-eastern-shoshone/

With audio:

https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/open-spaces/2025-02-21/ahvaytum-bahndooiveche-north-americas-oldest-dinosaur-has-a-shoshone-name

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A Paleontologist Presents Stygimoloch: LATEST research on NEW fossils of the CONTROVERSIAL dinosaur with Anton Wroblewski,
Dr. Anton's Rock-o-Rama (video)
11 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2G_AIezg7o

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New sauropod find at Angeac-Charente (France) revealed under preparation (photos) (in French)

https://petitcarnetpaleo.blogspot.com/2025/03/les-cotes-de-sauropode-en-degagement.html

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New Bonapartenykus fossils reveal new details (in Spanish)
Fósiles hallados en Río Negro revelaron detalles inéditos de un dinosaurio de 70 millones de años

https://fundaciondinosaurioscyl.blogspot.com/2025/02/fosiles-hallados-en-rio-negro-revelaron.html

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Australia's 'upside down' dinosaur age had two giant predators, 120 million-year-old fossils reveal

https://www.livescience.com/animals/dinosaurs/fossil-discovery-in-australia-reveals-upside-down-dinosaur-ecosystem-with-2-giant-predators 

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Storms reveal huge Iguanodon footprint on beach (with audio)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg53x1j01lo

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fossil-tour-guide-discovers-giant-purple-dinosaur-footprint-while-walking-along-a-uk-beach-180986110/

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Mary Ann Woodhouse and the discovery of Iguanodon

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/mary-ann-woodhouse-and-the-discovery-of-iguanodon/

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Iguanodon Statue, Maidstone, England

A reminder of the dinosaur skeleton discovered in a local quarry.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/statue-of-iguanodon 

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Utah dig site reveals increased diversity of fossilized eggshells, including dinosaurs

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-utah-site-reveals-diversity-fossilized.html

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/eggshells-fill-a-30-million-year-fossil-record-gap-for-dinosaur-migration

https://www.iflscience.com/100-million-year-old-dinosaur-eggs-capture-remarkable-diversity-of-utahs-ancient-ecosystems-78219

https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/03/100-million-year-old-dinosaur-eggs-reveal-a-lost-world-in-ancient-utah/

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China at the forefront of dinosaur fossil discoveries with a focus on preservation, technological support

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202503/1329359.shtml 

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Salas de los Infantes in Spain is a treasure for the study of dinosaurs, but lacks resources (in Spanish)
«Salas es un tesoro para el estudio de los dinosaurios, pero faltan medios»

https://fundaciondinosaurioscyl.blogspot.com/2025/02/salas-es-un-tesoro-para-el-estudio-de.html

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Burpee Museum PaleoFest

https://burpee.org/paleofest/

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Terrible Lizards Podcast TLS11E02 Dinos and Dragons with Mike O’Sullivan

https://terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls11e02-dinos-and-dragons

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No links or telling details per DMG policies, but the famous Bone Cabin Quarry in Wyoming is now private land and is being excavated by commercial fossil hunters, who are selling shares in new dinosaur fossil finds according to recent news stories, hoping for big payoffs a la Apex.

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Non-dino:

Why Wasn't There A Second Age of Reptiles?

PBS Eons (video)
11 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPXbSx17030&t=597s

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Quercy Phosphorites: The Ecosystem's Diversity of Southern France from the Eocene to the Miocene with Alfred Lemierre
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (video)
32 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZG16HPHpv8&t=47s

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Paleo Nerds Podcast Ep #83 Diggin' the Beasts of the Badlands National Park, South Dakota, with Mattison Shreero

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

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Snakes used to have legs! | A closer look at snake evolution with Marco Camaiti
Natural History Museum London (video)
11 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuHSC3_pIdw

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Thylacine: last marsupial super-predator? with Steve Wroe
RealPaleontology
16 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0qLLiX_UAU&t=10s

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Mosquito in Resin: How a Fragile Insect Living 100 Million Years Ago Becomes a Fossil
A bug, a dinosaur and a tree intersect, creating the perfect conditions for resin to capture a moment in time
Riley Black

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-a-fragile-insect-living-100-million-years-ago-becomes-a-fossil-180986127/ 

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How dinosaur extinction influenced fruit evolution

https://www.earth.com/news/how-dinosaur-extinction-influenced-fruit-evolution/

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