Newsletter 3
plesio...@gmail.com
(Sunday 1st July 2007)
This issue is slightly delayed because I have been experiencing
technical problems with Topica, my newsletter host. As a temporary
measure, I am sending this issue manually by gmail, but hopefully the
problems will be resolved soon. It is possible that the original
Topica email I sent is just delayed, in which case, please ignore it
when it arrives.
If you have any comments or recommendations on how I can improve this
newsletter, if you want to recommend a link, image or PDF to feature
in a future issue of the newsletter, if you have any corrections, or
if you think you are the first to find Paddy, please contact me at
plesio...@gmail.com. Thanks! Adam
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NEWS
- A special exhibition entitled "Collecting Oklahoma" opened in the
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, on the 16th of June
2007. The exhibition features an original painting of an Elasmosaurus
by artist Debby Cotter Kaspari. I discussed in a previous news article
(see Part 1) the initial stages of the design process for this
project. I am now pleased to reveal the final work of art. Kaspari
attended the grand opening of the event: "It went great!" she
explains, pictured here next to the finished Elasmosaurus exhibit, "A
wonderful turnout, lots of excitement, and the mural looked really
good up there. It's big, really big. And toothy"
For the full story with images, see:
http://www.plesiosauria.com/news.html#14
-On Monday the 18th of June, Hive Studios announced the first
installment of their animation library featuring some amazing
animations of prehistoric animals, including some plesiosaurs. Samples
of the animations are available here:
http://web.mac.com/hivestudios/iWeb/hive%20studios/Products.html
The plesiosaur is Cryptoclidus, but it's also worth checking out the
Allosaurus and Othnelia animations too. The animations feature in the
ABC Science documentary "CRUDE", all about crude oil. The documentary,
including the plesiosaur animations in Part 1, can be seen here:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/crude/
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UPDATES
A new genus has been added into the plesiosaur directory - the basal
sauropterygian, Lariosaurus: http://www.plesiosauria.com/lariosaurus.html
A new classification page has been added: http://www.plesiosauria.com/nothosauroidea.html
The following other updates have been made to existing pages:
3 new Plesiosaurus images (kind courtesy of sculptor Hirokazu Tokugawa
http://www2.neweb.ne.jp/wc/A-fragi )have been added to
http://www.plesiosauria.com/plesiosaurus.html I will add more of
Tokugawa's models to my site over the coming weeks.
Cladogram updated on http://www.plesiosauria.com/nothosauria.html
Image added to http://www.plesiosauria.com/eosauropterygia.html
All new images have been added to the image page: http://www.plesiosauria.com/images.html
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PDF-CORNER
This issue's featured scientific article is by Andrews, on the skull
of Liopleurodon ferox.
http://www.plesiosauria.com/linkremoved
Full reference: Andrews, C. W. 1897. On the structure of the skull of
a pliosaur. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 53, 177-185.
Please note that PDFs featured in 'PDF-Corner' will only be available
temporarily.
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FEATURED IMAGE
A 3D restoration of Pliosaurus by artist Arril Johnson. The actual
model used in this piece now accompanies the skull of the 'Westbury
Pliosaur 1', on display in the Bristol museum.
http://www.plesiosauria.com/arillsrestoration.jpg
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PICK OF THE WEB
Pick of the web this week coincides with the news story on plesiosaur
animations. They really are worth visiting twice! ;)
http://web.mac.com/hivestudios/iWeb/hive%20studios/Products.html
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WHERE'S PADDY?
Last issue paddy was hiding on the 'Toys' page. Congratulations go to
Nizar Ibrahim who was the first person to spot Paddy. Well done!
Keep your eyes peeled though because Paddy has gone missing again!
Paddy the Plesiosaur is a cartoon plesiosaur with a letter 'P' on his
back - and he is hiding somewhere on the Plesiosaur Directory Website!
Be the first to find him and get a special mention in next weeks
Newsletter! Just email me at plesio...@gmail.com with the subject
'I found Paddy' and tell me what page he is hiding on. Find out more
at http://www.plesiosauria.com/paddy.html
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