Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news:
- The Good Dinosaur will have more special effects than any other Pixar film, according to TechCrunch. Also Slashfilm features a number of high-res images of the film, Cinemablend talks about how dinosaurs will look different from normal in the movie, and also gives some Easter eggs for The Good Dinosaur in previous Pixar movies, such as Inside Out
- A new dinosaur claw was found in Minnesota, which gives people hope of finding more dinosaur bones in the state, according to Star Tribune and Kare 11
- Participants can pay $400 to help paleontologists dig for fossils for one week at the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum, according to KSL
- Taylor McCoy, creator of the website Everything Dinosaurs, has released a t-shirt with the website’s logo on Teespring
- Some people are claiming that dinosaur fossils are on Mars, according to Express
- According to Rocket News, in Japan there was a life-sized Allosaurus in front of the turnstiles at a train station, which escaped its two handlers, and ran through the crowd, as part of a promotional effort for the animatronics exhibit Dino-A-Live, which features “dinosaurs that can walk freely, swing their tails, roar, and bite”
- Josh Cotton, a paleo-artist who we interviewed on our show in episode Ultrasaurus, had his work recently featured in USA Today. The story was about how scientists have found a “candy shop” number of crazy fossils at a site in Utah
