Dinosaur Discovery & Updates on Cloud Rats

Natural News from The Field Museum | Ep. 1

We’re kicking off the first episode in our new news series, Natural News from The Field Museum! Stay tuned for the next installment in two weeks, and check out our behind-the-scenes tour of the set next week right here on The Brain Scoop.

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Papers/Articles:

1. 'Dinosaur Discovery'

• An Unusual New Theropod with a Didactyl Manus from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. PLOS One (2016).
• Newly-discovered dinosaur had "T. rex" arms that evolved independently. Fieldmuseum.org

2. 'Geez Louise that's a lot of Trees'

• Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora. Science (2013).
• The Discovery of the Amazonia Tree Flora with an updated list of all known tree taxa. Scientific Reports (2016).
• How many trees are there in the Amazon? Fieldmuseum.org (2013).
• A big step in the 300-year quest to find every tree species in the Amazon. Fieldmuseum.org (2016).

3. 'Margery C. Carlson\, an unsung hero of science'

• Exotic Blooms Beckon Pair of Intrepid Women. Chicago Tribune (1949).

4. 'So Many Mammals Up in Here'

• Doubling Diversity: a cautionary tale of previously unsuspected mammalian diversity on a tropical oceanic island. Frontiers of Biogeography (2016).
• World's greatest concentration of unique mammal species is on Philippine island. Fieldmuseum.org (2016).