Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news:
- A new hypothesis reclassifies dinosaurs into Ornithoscelida & Saurischia, potentially undercutting 130 years of dinosaur science
- Hypsilophodons flocking in a low floodplain were buried alive over and over again on the Isle of Wight
- New eggshells from the Willow Creek Formation shed light on dinosaur diversity in Southwest Alberta
- More dinosaur footprints added to the huge collection in Broome, Australia
- Jurassica just received a grant of £37,300 Heritage Lottery Funding to help produce their Mesozoic recreation
- New application “actiongram” for the Microsoft Hololense allows anyone to add CGI Tyrannosaurs to real-world scenes
- Fossilera is selling easter eggs with small fossils in them, if you don’t have access to small fossils and plastic eggs already
- “Horizon Zero Dawn has a Dinosaur Fight Club” according to Kotaku.com
- A report on 5,000+ dinosaur footprints in Bolivia on a 300ft tall, 1 mile long wall
- A school in North Yorkshire dissected Trixie the Triceratops for National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics week
- The T. rex from “T. rex Autopsy” is going on tour throughout Australia to teach people about dinosaurs.
- Akiko Shinya (of Gualicho Shinyae fame) was featured in the Field Museums women in science blog
- A feature in Nature explains how to keep field research fun, like having a black tie gourmet picnic in underground lava tubes
- New dinosaur book called “Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew”
- DINOS! is coming to the Denver Zoo from July 1 to October 21
- When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth is now out on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive
- A piece about David Joyner gives a peak behind the big purple Barney suit
- Life-sized animatronic dinosaurs are coming to a new mini golf course in Manchester, UK
- A new hotel near Tokyo Disneyland has a robotic dinosaur manning the front desk and egg shaped robots in every room
- Wild Dinosaurs Entertainment launched in Santa Fe, New Mexico with custom made dinosaur costumes for parties and events