Sci-Bits #2

All right, I've toiled my eyes and brain across the interwebs for you all, and the fruit of it is another Sci-Bits linkpalooza.  Enjoy!

Research team identifies rare dinosaur from Appalachia

A primitive hadrosaurid from southeastern North America and the origin and early evolution of ‘duck-billed’ dinosaurs

Spinosaurus Devoured Meals Like a Giant Pelican

Wales Gets A New Dragon With 200 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Discovery

A gigantic new dinosaur from Argentina and the evolution of the sauropod hind foot

Crystal Palace dinosaur conservation work restores Iggy the Iguanodon to his former glory

Popularising science… The right way!

A couple of Mosasaurs for Walentinia!

Super-sized Ceratopsian Skull Might be New Species

The Man Who Brought Us T-Rex

First warm-blooded lizards switch on mystery heat source at will

Sneaky crocodiles occupied sauropod hatcheries

Crocodilian Nest in a Late Cretaceous Sauropod Hatchery from the Type Lameta Ghat Locality, Jabalpur, India

Barosaurus: Beast of the Week 

Mary Ann Woodhouse Mantell: Iguanayougonna do about it?

Seasonal reproductive endothermy in tegu lizards

A Mummified Moa Helps Paleontologists Reconstruct Feeding Behavior

Bizarre Photographs Of An Elephant Attacking And Killing a Resting Buffalo

Meet the mountain lions of Los Angeles

First one to blink loses! Praying mantis engages in a five-minute stand-off with a baby crocodile (before having the cheek to climb over his rival)

Just Give Up. It’s Impossible to Bug-Proof Your Home

Cthulhu-geddon: Thousands of dead squid wash up on beach in Chile 

One of the Single Weirdest “Lights in the Sky” Events Ever: City Map Drawn in the Sky

How to read a scientific paper

Sci-Bits #1

Greetings readers,

With this as the inaugural post, I am hereby starting a new blog series called Science Bits, or Sci-Bits for short.  The purpose of this series is to share relevant links and external content, all about science, and paleontology in particular.  I will not limit myself to merely dinosaurs of other such paleontological links, and will share whatever I find interesting, at any time.  Nor will I post only news and new papers, instead, I will share everything from news pieces, research papers, articles, other blog posts, etc.  So, without further ado, check out the below links, and be ye informed thusly!

Seventy-Ton Titanosaur Unveiled At Museum Of Natural History

 The Biggest Dinosaur In History May Never Have Existed

Monster-Size Marine Crocodile Discovered

Newly discovered pliosaur terrorised ancient Russian seas

Dinosaurs performed dances to woo mates, according to new evidence

Dinosaur scales: some thoughts for artists

SABERTOOTH’S BANE: INTRODUCING DINOCROCUTA

ALL TEETH: UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH DINOCROCUTA

Sauropod footprint find makes Skye Scotland's largest dinosaur site

The Dakota Badlands Used to Host Sabertoothed Pseudo-Cat Battles

Thumbs up to new sail-backed dinosaur!

Happy Fins: Plesiosaurs Flapped like Penguins  

'Chasm', the three year old dinosaur who died 75 million years ago and is helping scientists fill in evolutionary gaps

Sticky Amber Preserved Dinosaur-Age Insects for Millions of Years

A Day in the Life of an Ammonite

First REAL Tyrannosaurus rex to go on display in Europe opens tomorrow!

What’s Warming the Cold-Blooded Iguana?

Four new elements have been added to the periodic table

That about wraps it up for now.  Remember, I also share paleontology and science content on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram!

Coursera has free paleontology courses!

Dear readers,

Now that the holidays are over, it's time to get the new year under way.  I've got some links that may be of interest to any student of science.

Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology

Palaeontology: Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds

Palaeontology: Ancient Marine Reptiles

I took Dino 101 through Coursera during its first semester (Fall 2013), and thought it was a great general introduction to dinosaurs.  It starts today, so the interested party may want to enroll soon (the other classes start later this month and next month, respectively).  Dino 101 and the theropod/bird origins class are both taught by the esteemed paleontologist Philip Currie.  And besides, if you're a reader of my blog, I'm assuming you don't need me to give you any reasons to enroll!  I'm interested to try the other two new classes and see what they're like.

Signing off,

Spencer Bronte
Science, to a Student