Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news:
- Paleo-artist Josh Cotton recently released a new video on his The Doodling Dino youtube channel, called “Scientific Artist Reimagines The Good Dinosaur,” where he recreates Arlo as an Alamosaurus, while explaining the science behind the dinosaurs in The Good Dinosaur
Illustration by Josh Cotton
Illustration by Josh Cotton
- Atlas Obscura profiled John Lanzendorf, a hairstylist who at one time had the largest collection of dinosaur art
- Dino on my Desk uses augmented reality to allow people to play with the animated Plunkett, a protoceratops
- Dinosaurs appeared in only a few million years, and not 10 million years, as previously thought, according to Science Mag and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Fossils hunters have found crocodiles that lived 100 million years ago in what is now North Africa, and could “gallop” on land and probably ate dinosaurs, according to Archaeology News Network
- According to Variety, The Good Dinosaur may be Pixar’s first box office failure, though according to FXguide, the movie made beautiful environments and took a lot of work on the part of the technical team
- Kids are reviewing The Good Dinosaur, with reviews appearing on The Independent and Tor.com
- In the Yunnan province in China, construction workers came across dinosaur bones, while building a road, which paleontologists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing found were two different species of Lufengosaurus (magus and huenei), according to the Everything Dinosaur blog
- On Forbes, Shaena Montanari shares a list of 10 gift ideas for dinosaur lovers, including action figures, movies, books, and more
