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	<description>The institutionalized doodles and discoveries of a dead-animal designer.</description>
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		<title>A new look for Typothorax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past year or so, I&#8217;ve been involved with reconstructing the aetosaur Typothorax coccinarum, based on two articulated skeletons found in eastern New Mexico. A paper describing these specimens and presenting the reconstruction has just been published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, and is freely available now through the Taylor and Francis JVP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2010/05/20/a-new-look-for-typothorax/</link>
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		<title>Asilisaurus kongwe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Asilisaurus kongwe (foreground). Image by M.H. Donnelly, Field MuseumFrom the Ruhuhu Basin Research Asilisaurus Page
No time to treat this with more than a passing mention, but a letter in today&#8217;s Nature presents a new, Middle Triassic silesaurid from Tanzania named Asilisaurus kongwe (“ancient ancestor lizard”). This adds another continent to the known range of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2010/03/03/asilisaurus-kongwe/</link>
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		<title>Fossilized Function and Behavior</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The big paleo news this week is the description of an 11 foot (3.5 meter) Cretaceous snake, Sanajeh indicus, found coiled around a dinosaur nest—apparently lying in wait for when the hard-to-swallow eggs revealed their bite-sized contents. The paper is freely accessible at PLoS Biology, and microecos and  SV-POW both have worthy takes on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2010/03/03/fossilized-function-and-behavior/</link>
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		<title>Reconstructing Ptychodus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today at Laelaps, Brian Switek posted a summary of new research (Shimada et al. 2010) on the Cretaceous shell-crushing shark Ptychodus (tie-KOE-duss). Like many fossil sharks, Ptychodus is primarily known from teeth&#8212;usually isolated but occasionally found in their arrangement in life: packed together in rows that would have made its jaws look a little like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2010/02/22/reconstructing-ptychodus/</link>
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		<title>The Paleobiology of Coelophysis Part III: Truly, Coelophysis?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or, An International Corpse of Mystery
Quick note: New readers might want to look at previous installments of the Paleobiology of Coelophysis (Parts 1 &#38; 2) series before diving into this post.
In order to collect data from other specimens of Coelophysis bauri, some members of the research team (notably Larry Rinehart and Andy Heckert) visited several [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2010/02/13/the-paleobiology-of-coelophysis-part-iii-truly-coelophysis/</link>
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		<title>More Bistahieversor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Williamson, one of the scientists who described the new tyrannosaur Bistahieversor sealeyi, has written an excellent article for the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science website on the discovery and interpretation of “The Bisti Beast”.
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		<link>http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2010/02/12/more-bistahieversor/</link>
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		<title>Hairball 02.07.10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several new (and newish) blogs in this weeks tangle of links:

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs: a daily dose of Mesozoic megafauna. Highly recommended. This week&#8217;s pick: An interview with pterosaur researcher/artist Mark Witton.
Pterosaur.net Blog: posts from Mark Witton and the rest of the team at Pterosaur.net. Pick: John Conway&#8217;s discussion of the Pot-bellied Pteranodon.
Jim [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2010/02/07/hairball-02-07-10/</link>
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		<title>Hairball 01.31.10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s tangle of links, coughed up for your examination:

New basal alvarezsaur: Haplocheirus sollers.
What&#8217;s an alvarezsaur? Dave Hone&#8217;s got it covered.
Why is a basal one noteworthy? Jonah Choiniere, of Haplocheirus-description team, puts it in context and highlights some of its unique features.
Fossil pigment 1: Belemnite ink
Fossil pigment 2: Chestnut-striped coelurosaurs
Happy Family: Proboscidea
Medical Texts: A long, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2010/01/31/hairball-01-31-10/</link>
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		<title>Bistahieversor sealeyi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Drs. Carr &#38; Williamson on the publication of &#8220;The Bisti Beast,&#8221; whose description is the cover story in this month&#8217;s Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.


Bistahieversor sealeyi
Image by Mary Sundstrom and myself, for the
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.



New Dinosaur: Bistahieversor sealeyi
Pronounced: bis-tah-he-ee-VER-sor SEE-lee-eye
Name means: Sealey&#8217;s Bisti destroyer (Paul Sealey discovered the fossils [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2010/01/30/bistahieversor-sealeyi/</link>
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		<title>The Paleobiology of Coelophysis Part II: Other Critters in the Quarry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or, Token Diversity in a Dinosaur Graveyard
Although fossils of the Triassic theropod Coelophysis bauri are by far the most numerous vertebrate remains preserved in blocks from the Whitaker quarry, several other animals are known from the site as well. Many have just been uncovered or described within the past ten years, and in the course [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2010/01/27/the-paleobiology-of-coelophysis-part-ii-other-critters-in-the-quarry/</link>
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