Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news:
- Dribble has a fun tutorial that shows you how to use Illustrator, based on a fictitious design brief for the London Natural History Museum, where you end up creating a dinosaur traveling exhibit poster
- According to ABC, in Queensland Australia, paleontologist Dr. Scott Hocknull and Sean Druitt, content development manager from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are working together to create “the world’s most scientifically accurate collection of animations.”
- Cinemablend reported on Jurassic World being available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download on Oct. 20. To prepare for the release, Universal has created eight featurettes, one which is called “Bringing the Dinosaurs to Life,” which shows a behind the scenes look at how they filmed the movie
- According to Chron, in Sugar Land, Texas, a woman with two T-rex replicas in her front yard is being told by her homeowner’s association to take them down
- A new dinosaur exhibit is opening in Cañon City, Colorado, featuring a 16,200-square-foot museum, exhibits, casts, and animatronic dinosaurs, according to The Gazette
- In Billings, Montana, a potentially new sauropod was taken in welded steel frames for cleaning and analysis, according to Missoulian
- Benld, Illinois is home to Charlie McGrady’s Studio, which according to Atlas Obscura “works with paleontologists to produce very accurate reproductions of dinosaurs using fiberglass and precise sculpting, texturing and painting techniques”
- In Britain, Ellie Harrison and Dean Lomax teamed up to create a documentary about dinosaurs running around British landmarks, according to Mirror
- Part of Jones Hole Creek in Dinosaur National Monument has reopened after a 2013 rock slide closed it down, according to Deseret News
- Smithsonian Mag reported on finding fossilized dinosaur poop inside a fossilized dinosaur
- In Johannesburg, the oldest known dinosaur egg, which was found 40 years ago, will finally be properly analyzed, according to Enca
- A new study shows pigments in fossils of Anchiornis huxleyi, according to Sci-Tech Today and Forbes
- Summerlee, the Coatbridge museum, is trying to get Dippy the Diplodocus from the London Natural History Museum to visit for 4 months while on tour, according to Daily Record
- Dinosaur National Monument may become a national park, according to KSL
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A new game called Saurian is in the pre-alpha stages. It’s a survival game where players live like dinosaurs. Currently the options are Acheroraptor, Pachycephalosaurus, Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops, and the game takes place in the Hell Creek Formation. According to the website, the game is scientifically accurate. What makes the game especially unique is the use of “multi-agent reinforcement learning AI architecture.”
