Spinosaurus tooth and partial spine for scale 😛 Similar to the tooth used to test Calcium and diet by extension. Photo by Ghedoghedo
Here’s what came out in this week’s dinosaur news:
- A Juvenile diplodocoid femur exposed in the rock-wall at Dinosaur National Monument appears to have bite marks
- Calcium isotopes in dinosaur teeth appear to show that spinosaurs ate more fish than their contemporary theropods
- A new unnamed dinosaur has been reported from a recent excavation in Cerra Guido, Chile
- A series of legal issues in India is reducing interest in paleontology, threatening the future of dinosaur bones in the country
- The auction in Paris last week ended with the Diplodocus and Allosaurus fossils going to an unnamed “foreign buyer” for about 3 million euros
- The theme park “Dinosaur World” in Beaver, Arkansas which closed in 2005 is full of slowly rusting dinosaur sculptures
- the iconic Horace the (sauropod) dinosaur, who could be seen between Cinderford and Gloucester, has moved
- A project in Dunedin, New Zealand, aims to overhaul a playground known as “dinosaur park“
- A controversial video shows an Air National Guard master sergeant saying her oath of re-enlistment using a dinosaur hand puppet.
- New Jurassic World costumes are coming in August including a Velociraptor, Triceratops, and Pteranodon
- The final new Jurassic World trailer has been released featuring some awesome dinosaur scenes (and other details)
Check out these stories, our fun fact, and dinosaur of the day Sinoceratops in episode 178 of the I Know Dino Podcast!
I Know Dino Podcast Show Notes: Sinoceratops (Episode 178)
Episode 178 is all about Sinoceratops, a large ceratopsid dinosaur from China that will be in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom—although toys bearing its name are based on Pachyrhinosaurus.
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In this episode, we discuss:
News:
- A Juvenile diplodocoid femur exposed in the rock-wall at Dinosaur National Monument appears to have bite marks
- Calcium isotopes in dinosaur teeth appear to show that spinosaurs ate more fish than their contemporary theropods
- A new unnamed dinosaur has been reported from a recent excavation in Cerra Guido, Chile
- A series of legal issues in India is reducing interest in paleontology, threatening the future of dinosaur bones in the country
- The auction in Paris last week ended with the Diplodocus and Allosaurus fossils going to an unnamed “foreign buyer” for about 3 million euros
- The theme park “Dinosaur World” in Beaver, Arkansas which closed in 2005 is full of slowly rusting dinosaur sculptures
- the iconic Horace the (sauropod) dinosaur, who could be seen between Cinderford and Gloucester, has moved
- A project in Dunedin, New Zealand, aims to overhaul a playground known as “dinosaur park“
- A controversial video shows an Air National Guard master sergeant saying her oath of re-enlistment using a dinosaur hand puppet.
- New Jurassic World costumes are coming in August including a Velociraptor, Triceratops, and Pteranodon
- The final new Jurassic World trailer has been released featuring some awesome dinosaur scenes (and other details)
The dinosaur of the day: Sinoceratops
- Appears in two of the trailers for Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
- Centrosaurine ceratopsian that lived in the Cretaceous in what is now Shandon province, China (Xingezhuang Formation)
- Found in 2008
- Named in 2010 by Xu Xing and others
- Type species is Sinoceratops zhuchengensis
- Name means “Chinese horned face from Zhucheng”
- Sina means China in Latin
- The city of Zhucheng financed the excavations
- Found three skulls in Zhucheng, China
- Holotype consists of a partial skull with a partial braincase
- Medium-sized, quadrupedal, and herbivorous
- One of the largest known centrosaurines
- Grew up to about 20 ft (6 m) long and weighed up to 2 tonnes
- Thomas Holtz Jr. estimated it could be up to 23 ft (7 m) long and weidghed 2.3 tonnes
- First ceratopsid found in China
- Only confirmed ceratopsid from Asia so far (advanced ceratopsian)
- Has features seen in both centrosaurines and chasmosaurines
- May help show more about ceratopsian evolution, and that ceratopsids evolved in Asia before going to North America, but need more fossils to know more
- Had a short, hooked nasal horn
- Did not have brow horns
- Had a short neck frill with forward curving hornlets that made it look like it had a crown. This row of hornlets had low knobs on the top of the frill (not found on any other ceratopsian)
- Other dinosaurs that lived at the same time and place include Shantungosaurus (hadrosaurid), Zhuchengceratops (ceratopsian), Huaxiaosaurus (hadrosaurid), Zhuchengtyrannus (theropod)
Fun Fact:
- Jurassic Park was originally released on June 11, 1993 in the USA. Which may be why Jurassic World 3 was announced for June 11, 2021
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This Week in Dinosaur News: Two New Dinosaurs Machairoceratops and Spiclypeus, Stegosaurus Bite Force, Pawpawsaurus’s Excellent Sense of Smell, Dinosaur Parks, Rides, and Museums, and More
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Charles Robert Knight [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
- Scientists have discovered a new ceratopsian, Spiclypeus shipporum, two ceratopsians, according to PLOS One, Raw Story, Live Science, and CNN
- Stegosaurus had a stronger bite force than previously thought, according to Laboratory Equipment, Phys.org, and Nature
- A student has found a fossilized Eotyrannus lengii tooth, according to BBC
- According to CBC News, the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Alberta, Canada has been ranked 7th in Conde Nast Traveller’s top 10 best museum openings
- In Comanche, Texas, Comanche Elementary School raised $3,500 for a theropod dinosaur statue named Tracy, according to KTXS
- The Dinosaur ride at Disney’s Animal Kingdom is shutting down from July 25 to Sept. 29, according to Inside the Magic
- Robert Reisz from the University of Toronto found that dinosaurs such as T-rex may have had lips to cover their giant teeth, according to CBC News
- According to KCET, there were non-avian dinosaurs in California
- Minority Media Inc. released Time Machine VR, a virtual reality adventure game that takes place in the Jurassic era, according to Gamasutra
- Dr. Pascal Godefroit from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences has created a lifelike model of Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus, complete with feathers and scales, according to The Siberian Times
- Dinosaurs of China, an exhibition that is coming to Nottingham, UK, in summer 2017, is looking for sponsors, according to the University of Nottingham
- According to National Geographic News, scientists have found a two-headed reptile that lived at the same time as dinosaurs
- Discover Magazine wrote a feature about the paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim, who, among other things, published a description of a partial Spinosaurus in 2014 and helped solve the mysterious of Spinosaurus
- Scientists have found a fossil of an ancestor to ichthyosaurs that lived the same time as dinosaurs, according to BBC
- CBC News gives a list of 5 tips for fossil hunters
- In Bushwick, Brooklyn, someone has stolen seven handmade dinosaur costumes, according to Brooklyn Paper
- George Springer, the Houston Astros outfielder put on a T-rex costume and played football in the baseball stadium, according to Sports Illustrated
- In South Carolina, a 16-year-old boy was arrested for writing as part of a homework assignment that said “I killed my neighbor’s pet dinosaur.,” according to Daily Mail
- There’s a dinosaur park in Louisiana called Prehistoric Park, according to Nola.com
- In Montville, CT, a man named Jeff Wells has 40 life sized dinosaurs in his backyard, including a T-rex, according to The Day
- Inverse gives an overview of four dinosaur crime stories
