Dinosaur News Update: 08 July 2020
Neuroanatomy of the spinosaurid Irritator challengeri (Dinosauria: Theropoda) indicates potential adaptations for piscivory.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66261-w
First Soft-Shelled Dinosaur Egg Fossils Found.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-soft-shelled-dinosaur-eggs-found-180975137/
The biggest dinosaur ever may have been twice the size we thought [Paywall].
Cannibal dinosaurs resorted to eating each other when food was scarce.
Over 13,000 elements from a single bonebed help elucidate disarticulation and transport of an Edmontosaurus thanatocoenosis.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0233182
High frequencies of theropod bite marks provide evidence for feeding, scavenging, and possible cannibalism in a stressed Late Jurassic ecosystem.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0233115
Nevada home to 246M-year-old fossil of pregnant ichthyosaur.
https://phys.org/news/2020-05-nevada-home-246m-year-old-fossil-pregnant.html
Megaraptor: Fossils of 10m-long dinosaur found in Argentina.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-52723049
The fast and the frugal: Divergent locomotory strategies drive limb lengthening in theropod dinosaurs.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0223698
Australia’s first elaphrosaur discovered in Victoria.
https://phys.org/news/2020-05-australia-elaphrosaur-victoria.html
The Rise of Meat-Eating Dinosaurs Is More Complicated Than We Thought.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/meat-eating-dinosaurs-carnivorous-180974525/
Early Jurassic dinosaur fetal dental development and its significance for the evolution of sauropod dentition.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16045-7
Re-examination of the cranial osteology of the Arctic Alaskan hadrosaurine with implications for its taxonomic status.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0232410
Jurrassic Park got it wrong: Research indicates raptors didn’t hunt in packs.
https://phys.org/news/2020-05-jurrassic-wrong-raptors-didnt.html
Tail-propelled aquatic locomotion in a theropod dinosaur.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2190-3
Geology and paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern Morocco.