Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news:
- LiveScience reported that Carnufex carolinensis, the “Butcher Crocodile,” which lived 230 million years ago (before dinosaurs), was 9-feet tall, walked on two legs, and ate armored reptiles and early mammals
- Paleo-artist Tyler Keillor, who often creates artistic representations of dinosaurs that give the public their first impressions of what a species looked like, argued that T-rex had lips, according to the Wall Street Journal and the WSJ blog.
- Families can learn how to create fossil models at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, according to WRAL
- Singapore’s annual Balloon Event will feature 10 dinosaur balloon sculptures, made by 45 artists from 9 countries, and using 85,000 balloons (14 different types of balloons); according to The Straits Times, “the huge installation will be an attempt to break the record for Singapore’s Largest Balloon Landscape”
- ABC reported that the Museum of Ancient Life in Lehigh, Utah is getting 125-million-year-old skeletons, including 10 Utahraptors, found in what “paleontologists believe the site is the first documented example of dinosaurs trapped by quicksand”
- According to WMI Central, professor David Smith from the Northland Pioneer College has research that proves the dinosaur Nothronychus looked more like an ostrich than a ground sloth, as previously thought
- In Brisbane, Australia, the Brisbane Times reported that scientists have done a CT scan of the bones of Diamantinasaurus matildae, one of the largest dinosaurs in Queensland, to see how it moved and handled all of its weight
- The Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Australia has an exhibit called Dinosaur Discovery: Lost Creatures with 20 animatronic dinosaurs, according to the museum’s website
- Jurassic World won’t be out in theaters until June 12, but there’s already confirmation of a sequel, as reported in Franchise Herald and Jurassic World
- Last, but not least, Geekologie reported a father daughter team who created a 3 minute Lego stop-motion video of Jurassic Park.
