Irritator skull return to Brazil + story of birds + Phosphatotitan + Enigmacursor + Tethysuchian radiation + more

[Ben Creisler]

Ben Creisler

bcre...@gmail.com

Some recent items

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Irritator fossil to return to Brazil

https://www.science.org/content/article/famed-brazilian-spinosaurus-fossil-finally-heads-home

https://www.bundesregierung.de/resource/blob/992814/2422044/9069843169a3877004a7fcbae1345061/2026-04-20-d-bra-regkonsultationen-data.pdf

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/02/germany-brazil-irritator-dinosaur-skull-restitution

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/irritator-belongs-to-brazil/

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Steve Brusatte’s new book “The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present”
There’s a reason we don’t have birds the size of elephants: the mysterious story of how dinosaurs evolved – expert Q&A with Steve Brusatte

https://theconversation.com/theres-a-reason-we-dont-have-birds-the-size-of-elephants-the-mysterious-story-of-how-dinosaurs-evolved-expert-qanda-280960

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Why Birds Are the Only Surviving Dinosaurs with Steve Brusatte
New Scientist
59 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX5YWH4CEB4

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The long history of birds, from velociraptors to pigeons, with Steve Brusatte
SciFri
23 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACoCdEEAC68

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THE DINOSAURS THAT LIVE AMONG US - The Story of Birds with STEVE BRUSATTE
Evolution Soup

46 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3fatzKL69c

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Your Friends the Titanosaurs: Phosphatotitan khouribgaensis

https://equatorialminnesota.blogspot.com/2026/04/your-friends-titanosaurs-phosphatotitan.html

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Terrible Lizards Podcast:
Enigmacursor: Small Dinosaurs, Big Impact with Paul Barrett and Dave Hone

https://terriblelizards.libsyn.com/enigmacursor-small-dinosaurs-big-impact

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Palaeocast Episode 174: A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils with Paul Barrett
58 min.

https://www.palaeocast.com/dinosaurs-in-50-fossils/

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Peloroplites: Beast of the Week

https://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2026/04/peloroplites-beast-of-week.html

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Diamantinasaurus: Beast of the Week

https://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2026/04/diamantinasaurus-beast-of-week.html

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In search of rearing mounted sauropod skeletons

https://svpow.com/2026/04/11/in-search-of-rearing-mounted-sauropod-skeletons/


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Fossil Crates with Brian Curtice:
Engineering T. rex with Dr. Eric Snively
95 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjoLap3pOP4&t=15s

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Dinosaur National Monument Paleontologist: ReBecca Hunt-Foster
14 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz1q0fL5Qs0

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Utetitan or Alamosaurus? Normal Variation Explained
39 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I49P1xTCYpM&t=1488s

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Further Observation on the Diagnosis of Stygivenator molnari Nick Longrich

https://www.nicklongrich.com/blog/more-obversations-on-stygivenator

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YcmmAkK6CU

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Dinosaurs may have originated 10 million years earlier than fossils show

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-dinosaurs-million-years-earlier-fossils.html

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In Czech:

Dinosaur diseases and pathologies:

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2026/04/23/dinosauri-nemoci-a-patologie/

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10 most important dinosaur discoveries in history:

https://medium.seznam.cz/clanek/vladimir-socha-deset-nejvyznamnejsich-dinosauru-v-dejinach-paleontologie-265650

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50 years of tyrannosaurid Alioramus:

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2026/04/17/pulstoleti-tyranosauri-baletky/

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Muttaburrasaurus (in Spanish)
Descubren que Muttaburrasaurus, el popular dinosaurio australiano de hace 96 millones de años, escondía una habilidad inesperada en su enorme nariz

https://fundaciondinosaurioscyl.blogspot.com/2026/04/descubren-que-muttaburrasaurus-el.html

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Bicharracosaurus, Jurassic giant from Chubut in Argentina (in Spanish)

Bicharracosaurus: El nuevo gigante jurásico de Chubut que homenajea al poblador rural que lo halló

https://fundaciondinosaurioscyl.blogspot.com/2026/04/bicharracosaurus-el-nuevo-gigante.html

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Project Scapula for sauropod from Angeac-Charente in France (in French):
PROJET SCAPULA : Dégagement de l'omoplate gigantesque du nouveau sauropode angeacais ! (Vidéos)

https://petitcarnetpaleo.blogspot.com/2026/04/projet-scapula-degagement-de-lomoplate.html
https://www.youtube.com/@mazan1968/videos

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A New Window Into the Dino Extinction Event
American Museum of Natural History
7 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sc-n_hn8pE

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The Day the Dinosaurs Died
SciShow

31 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2XooQTsxEM

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How Dinosaurs May Have Cursed Us With Aging
PBS Eons
10 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWOErbTL9N4

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72 million years in the making, the dinosaur treasure trove in my yard
An open-air museum in the south has found 100 fossilised eggs on its land, sparking a debate about the top sites for palaeontologists

https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/dinosaur-eggs-museum-meze-france-638gd0r5v

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‘Shanklin Croc’ and the Dawn of the Tethysuchian Radiation (TetZoo)

https://tetzoo.com/blog/2026/4/17/shanklin-croc-and-tethysuchians
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The Weirdest Triassic Animals with Gabriel Ugueto
People Are Fish
39 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKRAzhMjQbo&t=97s

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The Fossil Files Podcast 29:
The First Fossil Puke: What It Reveals About Permian Predators

https://fossils.libsyn.com/the-first-fossil-puke-what-it-reveals-about-permian-predators

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTx48RRKYsM

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University of Washington researchers discover the fossil of a new hamster-sized mammal that lived alongside dinosaurs on the Pacific Coast

https://www.washington.edu/news/2026/04/23/researchers-discover-the-fossil-of-a-new-hamster-sized-mammal-that-lived-alongside-dinosaurs-on-the-pacific-coast/

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Non-dino:

Insect Fossils from Central Alberta, and the Story of "Life After the Dinosaurs"  John Acorn, University of Alberta
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
60 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRmrU6U9xMc

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Palaeontology and the Evolution of Snakes Michael W. Caldwell, University of Alberta
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
63 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3ZNs7vduHs&t=2627s

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Bony Inner Ears Offer Clues to Lizard Evolutionary Relationships, But Not Ancient Habitats
“While bones enclosing the inner ear may not reveal how extinct reptiles lived, this study highlights their promise for answering an even bigger question: how today’s snakes and lizards are connected to their long-lost extinct relatives,” Forcellati said. “If models like the ones we built are trained on more fossil species, in addition to living ones, deep time evolutionary questions about the relationships of extinct fossil lizards including mosasaurs could potentially be addressed.”
https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/lizard-bony-inner-ears

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These Birds GLOW... and No One Noticed Until Now!
People Are Fish
65 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhZS7JDgido

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Niobrarateuthis, a giant squid that lived in Wyoming’s last ocean around 80 million
Scientists Keep Location Of Prehistoric Squid Found In Eastern Wyoming A Secret

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/04/25/where-first-of-its-kind-prehistoric-wyoming-giant-squid-was-found-a-close-secret/