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This Week in Dinosaur News: A massive set of footprints in Northeast Thailand may show group behavior in theropods and much more

Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news:

This Week in Dinosaur News: New Dinosaurs Isaberrysaurua and Xingxiulong, Dinosaurs in VR and 3D Printing, LEGO Dinosaur Theme Park, and More

Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news:

  • Scientists discovered a new Jurassic dinosaur, Isaberrysaurua mollensis, found in Patagonia, according to Nature
  • Scientists discovered a new Jurassic sauropodiform dinosaur, Xingxiulong chengi, found in China, according to Nature
  • Scientists analyzed the “Fighting Dinosaurs” from Mongolia, according to Paleontological Journal
  • Researchers studied three areas in Mongolia to determine how to search for Jurassic dinosaurs in Mongolia, according to Paleontological Journal
  • Paleontologists described in detail Iguanodon galvensis, the second valid species of Iguanodon, in Historical Biology
  • New titanosaur osteoderms found in North Patagonia are described in ScienceDirect
  • Scientists described dinosaur eggshells from Alberta, Canada, in ScienceDirect
  • PLOS One explained how sauropods ate to become gigantic
  • Scientists described Jurassic carnivorous dinosaur footprints, found in China, according to Vertebrate PalAsiatica
  • Scientists described how ceratopsian skulls and lower jaws evolved, according to Evolutionary Ecology
  • A bill was introduced in California to name Augustynolophus morrisi the state dinosaur, according to California Legislative Information
  • The Environmental Science Institute at the University of Texas at Austin published new videos on Youtube about dinosaurs: a short clip on what dinosaurs looked like, and another short clip on what dinosaurs sounded like, taken from the “Secret Lives of Dinosaurs” talk by Dr. Julia Clarke in their series “Hot Science Cool Talks”
  • TV Overmind reported on James Burrows, who built a 125,000 piece dinosaur themed LEGO park
  • Chicago Tonight reported on Neil Shubin, a paleontologist from the University of Chicago, who recently came back from his first fossil hunt in Antarctica
  • Geek.com wrote about Hasbro’s Toy Fair media briefing, which featured Trypticon, a dinosaur Transformer
  • The 65th Symposium of Vertebrate Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy and the 26th Symposium of Paleontological Preparation and Conservation will be held in Birmingham, UK, September 12-15
  • According to Birmingham Mail, Birmingham park will have life-sized dinosaurs for the summer
  • According to Gadgets Now and ABC, a team of scientists in Melbourne, Australia, are working to combine virtual reality and 3D printing to teach people about dinosuars

This Week in Dinosaur News: Sauropod Evolution, Dinosaur Auctions and Theme Parks, Dinosaur Tracks and More

By Pibwl (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

By Pibwl (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news:

  • An international team of scientists have figured out the evolution and size of sauropods, according to Phys.org
  • Jack Horner answers the question, “What color were dinosaurs?” on Seeker
  • Emmen Zoo in Holland is auctioning off fossils, include a 25ft long Harpocrasaurus (duck-billed dinosaur) that lived 75 million years ago, according to Mirror
  • Brian Switek gave a glowing review of David Hone’s The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biography of the Tyrant Dinosaurs on The Spectator
  • According to Inverse, the gold rush in the 1800s sparked interest in dinosaurs
  • St. George museum has a new exhibit of dinosaur tracks called Lake Dixie Discovery Trail, according to The Spectrum
  • The city of Holyoke passed a law to help protect the dinosaur footprints on Route 5, according to Mass Live
  • In Green Bay, WI, a fiberglass dinosaur in front of what used to be a Sinclair glass station is getting a makeover, and a family, according to Green Bay Press Gazette
  • The Jurassic Coast will be decorated with life-sized dinosaur replicas as part of a Jurassic Journey, according to Exmouth Journal
  • Jurassic World: The Exhibition at the Melbourne Museum is hosting Jurassic Nights on Friday nights in June, according to The Weekly Review
  • Harrisburg, PA is hosting a Dino-Mite summer with 30 fiberglass dinosaurs decorated by local artists, according to Penn Live
  • In New Jersey a fire completely burned one of the 90-ft robotic dinosaurs from Field Station: Dinosaurs, according to WRAL and CBS
  • The Richmond Night Market in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, has a new theme this year called Magical Dino Park, according to Richmond News
  • Stuff.co.nz shares a dinosaur jars project
  • Maker Faire Bay Area 2016 featured some KitRex cardboard dinosaurs
  • Technabob features images of a Barbie Power Wheels jeep that was converted into a Jurassic Park wrangler
  • The Daily Journal shares a first person of a dinosaur roadside attraction in Berkely Township, NJ, from the POV of the dinosaur
  • A new dinosaur theme park called Lost Kingdom, at Paultons Park, is opening up in the UK this year, according to BBC
  • University of Alberta explains who would win in a race between a tyrannosaur and a hadrosaur
  • According to The Shuttle, a Brontosaurus model was vandalized in West Midland Safari Park in the UK

This Week in Dinosaur News: New Dinosaurs Sarmientosaurus and mystery ceratopsian, Dinosaurs Leaving Europe, Sauropod Eating Habits, Dinosaur Puppets, and More

Walking with Dinosaurs arena spectacular

Walking with Dinosaurs arena spectacular

Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news:

  • Legs are important in flight, according to Phys.org and PLOS One
  • Oculus Rift allows you to briefly interact with a T-rex, according to Mercury News
  • Dinosaurs could probably dream, according to Discovery
  • Tom Kaye uses lasers to figure out what dinosaurs looked like, according to Huffington Post
  • Oxford University Press created a cool infographic of a timeline of dinosaurs
  • In Canada, the dinosaur that used to stand in front of the Parrsboro Rock and Mineral Shop moved to in front of the Fundy Geological Museum, as part of the Rock Shop Project, according to Herald News
  • Inverse posted an interesting article, called “Stop Saying That Dinosaurs Went Extinct. They Didn’t and You Sound Ignorant”
  • David Silva has a Kickstarter project to raise money and create Beasts of the Mesozoic, “a line of 1/6th scale scientifically accurate dinosaur action figures, with great detail and articulation”
  • The ferris wheel at Dinosaur Planet caught fire, according to Fox News Travel
  • EW wrote a brief history of the TV show Dinosaurs in honor of its 25th anniversary on April 26
  • Tested wrote about the history of dinosaurs in film
  • On May 28, the creators of TrexTuesdays are throwing a Prehistoric Party, according to StarTribune
  • The Sydney Morning Herald interviewed Sonny Tilders, co-founder and co-owner of the Creature Technology Company in Melbourne Australia, that has created puppets and animations and special effects for Walking with Dinosaurs, How to Train Your Dragon, King Kong, and Jurassic World
  • Petition for the Preservation of Dinosaur Ridge and Surrounding Open Spaces and Park Land on Change.org

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