
Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news:
- Three exceptionally well preserved new sauropodomorphs in Brazil were used to describe the new genus Macrocollum (literally “long neck”) source
- Another new opalized dinosaur fossil was found in Australia, this one was from a jaw and named a new genus—Weewarrasaurus source
- Seven vertebrae from the banks of the Volga river were used to describe the new titanosaur Volgatitan source
- Histology on a fossil from northeastern China appears to show that enantiornithine dinosaurs had medullary bone source
- A bunch of dinosaur footprints have been found in Zhaojue county, Sichuan Province, China, at a copper mine source
- Zuul went on display on December 15 at the Royal Ontario Museum; Several events are planned around its unveiling source
- The new Field Museum Mesozoic murals drew a lot of ire for copying paleoartists’ work without permission source
- The Natural History Museum in London and the Smithsonian are working to digitize all the fossils in their collections source
- Disney Channel has a new dinosaur show, called Gigantosaurus (not to be confused with the actual dinosaur Giganotosaurus) source
- The Australia Zoo installed a new life-sized Triceratops source
Check out these stories, our fun fact, and dinosaur of the day Wuerhosaurus in episode 212 of the I Know Dino Podcast!