Spinosaurus mirabilis + Alnashetri + pachycephalosaurs + polar dinosaurs + Purgatorius + more

[Ben Creisler]

Ben Creisler

bcre...@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Free pdf:

Omar Rafael Regalado Fernández (2025)
A preliminary report of a new Late Triassic sauropodomorph from Thuringia
Semana 40: 6
DOI: 10.7934/P6062
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398738164_A_preliminary_report_of_a_new_Late_Triassic_sauropodomorph_from_Thuringia

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Checklist for new zoological genus and species names [when you create a new taxon]

https://svpow.com/2026/02/25/checklist-for-new-zoological-genus-and-species-names/

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Spinosaurus mirabilis Skull Deep Dive: Cranial Bones, CT, and MorphoSource
Fossil Crates with Brian Curtice
50 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3K_9mYahaY

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Spinosaurus mirabilis Paper Deep Dive: Postcranial Edition | Dr. BC Breaks It Down
29 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7XxH9DwqoE&t=261s

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The tale of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis and body size evolution in alvarezsaurids

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2026/02/26/the-tale-of-alnashetri-cerropoliciensis-and-body-sizeo-evolution-in-alvarezsauroids/

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/dinosaur-rosetta-stone

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How many Pachycephalosaurus species are there?

https://www.nicklongrich.com/blog/how-many-pachycephalosaurus-species-are-there

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Rare Fossil of Baby Dome-Headed Dinosaur Unearthed in Canada

https://www.sci.news/paleontology/baby-dome-headed-dinosaur-fossil-canada-14595.html

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Filling gaps in the fossil record of turiasaurians from the Northern Hemisphere

https://sauropoda.blogspot.com/2026/02/filling-gaps-in-fossil-record-of.html

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Terrible Lizards Podcast S12DB06 Frost Bite [Dinosaurs in the Arctic and Antarctic]

https://terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s12db06-frost-bite 

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In Czech:

40 years ago, the first dinosaur from Antarctica was discovered:

 
https://medium.seznam.cz/clanek/vladimir-socha-pred-40-lety-byl-objeven-prvni-druhohorni-dinosaurus-v-ledove-antarktide-246717

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Tyrannosaurs were running just like birds:

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2026/03/02/tyranosauri-behali-jako-ptaci/

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Perhaps the largest of all stegosaurs was discovered in Utah:

https://medium.seznam.cz/clanek/vladimir-socha-v-utahu-byl-nejspis-objeven-nejvetsi-stegosaurus-vsech-dob-243017

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Rhoetosaurus and its 100th Anniversary:

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2026/02/26/rhoetosaurus-slavi-ste-narozeniny/

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Meet Albertonectes!┃Ancient Animal Absurdity 2026
Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum
2 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_172WRO7tg 

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Discovering Mammals in the time of Dinosaurs with Elsa Panciroli
Geological Society of Glasgow
58 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrF2U8xFVhc 

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Why Did Mammals Beat Dinos? Featuring Dr. Steve Brusatte
Animalogic
33 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0PtFnOTdAk 

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Newfound terrestrial crocodile fossil redraws the map of Europe in the age of the dinosaurs

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-newfound-terrestrial-crocodile-fossil-redraws.html

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Paleontologists challenge use of bone growth rings to age crocodiles, dinosaurs

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-paleontologists-bone-growth-age-crocodiles.html 

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Crossing Continents: Ancient Lizard and Snake Dispersal on a Dynamic Planet with Ian V. Wilenzik
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
48 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4fe_vZflWU

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Non-dino:

The Giant Eagles of the Ice Age with Ben Woodruff
Hutchings Museum
31 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BCn1Inc-Oo

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Ice Age Sloths of North and South America
Hutchings Museum
17 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW2ocUwjtDo&t=39s

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Miniscule Purgatorius fossil discovery reveals fresh clues into the evolution of the earliest-known relative of all primates

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1117865

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/paleontologist-stephen-chester-and-colleagues-reveal-new-clues-about-early-primate-evolution

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Tanyka, stem tetrapod from Brazil

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2026/march/new-species-living-fossil-had-jaws-unlike-anything-seen-before.html

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Your Teeth Went From the Outside In
PBS Eons
12 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miPIUijJHdo&t=50s