
Canadian Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology is coming next week https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29282/21339
This week in the News:
- French and British scientists have named the earliest Brachiosaurid, Vouivria damparisensis, from the Late Jurassic with titanosauriform features
- A Quipalong was found outside of China, marking the first transcontinental ornithomimid genus according to an article in the new journal FACETS
- A new paper investigates the biomechanics of Diplodocus feeding habits and fails to find support for the branch stripping technique
- Japan has a new largest dinosaur fossil. The hadrosaur was found in the mountains of Hokkaido and is about 8m (~26ft) long
- The first evidence of an iguanodontid in western Canada was found in the form of an isolated footprint
- A professor at the University of South Florida has begun creating digital animations of dinosaurs and viewing them in Virtual Reality
- The 5th Annual Canadian Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology meeting is coming next week (May 15th–17th, 2017) and the abstracts are available here
- University College London posted a specimen of the week, the 100 year old Proavis wax model complete with really strange feathers
- 9News shared a feature about Arthur Lakes in Morrison, Colorado, including how the area was involved in the Bone Wars
- Before Dippy was dismantled and being prepared to travel, the museum used a laser scanner system to make accurate measurements of the skeleton
- Markie Massey, one of our patrons, was the featured volunteer on the Institute for the Study of Mongolian Dinosaurs website
- Dinosaurs were seen crossing the Clifton Suspension Bridge in the UK to promote the animatronic dinosaurs coming to Bristol Zoo
- Peter Kulikowski is a one man dinosaur band and he sings songs about meteor strikes and dinosaurs in love
- Two NBA players on the Toronto Raptors showed up to a game wearing the $800 Saint Laurent T. rex sweater
- The Dinosphere at the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis was listed number three as top places in the world to see dinosaur fossils, according to Forbes