Dinosaur News Update: 21 May 2019
Scientists unearth ‘most bird-like’ dinosaur ever found.
https://phys.org/news/2019-05-archaeopteryx-company.html
Like humans, this dinosaur crawled before it walked.
The fossilization process of dinosaur remains.
https://phys.org/news/2019-05-fossilization-dinosaur.html
Tiny Tyrannosaur Named the “Coyote King”.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/tiny-tyrannosaur-named-the-coyote-king/
Fossil Friday – ceratopsian sacrum.
Titanosaur osteoderms: distribution.
https://equatorialminnesota.blogspot.com/2019/05/titanosaur-osteoderms-part-3-distribution.html
The Evolution of Pneumatic Foramina in Pterosaur Vertebrae.
New Jurassic non-avian theropod dinosaur sheds light on origin of flight in Dinosauria.
https://phys.org/news/2019-05-jurassic-non-avian-theropod-dinosaur-flight.html
New species of bat-wing dinosaur discovered.
How we reported a controversial story about the day the dinosaurs died.
Chewing versus sex in the duck-billed dinosaurs.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2019/may/hadrosaur-study.html
New Duckbill Dinosaur Looks Sharp.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/new-duckbill-dinosaur-looks-sharp/
Integumentary structure and composition in an exceptionally well-preserved hadrosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia).
https://peerj.com/preprints/27698/
Identification of avian flapping motion from non-volant winged dinosaurs based on modal effective mass analysis.
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006846
Morphological innovation and the evolution of hadrosaurid dinosaurs.
A juvenile cf. Edmontosaurus annectens (Ornithischia, Hadrosauridae) femur documents a poorly represented growth stage for this taxon.
https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29347
Comment (Case 3506) – Support for USNM 4734 being designated as the neotype specimen of Allosaurus fragilis Marsh, 1877 (Dinosauria, Theropoda)
A prevalence of Arthropterygius (Ichthyosauria: Ophthalmosauridae) in the Late Jurassic—earliest Cretaceous of the Boreal Realm