Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news:
- Jurassic World 2 is scheduled for release already, on June 22, 2018, and dinosaurs may be used as weapons, according to International Business Times and io9
- Dr. Dave Hone in GotScience writes about new fossil mounting techniques (including changing the posture and supporting the skeleton with a metal framework) for the Giraffatitan, formerly known as Brachiosaurus, in the Museum for Nature in Berlin
- According to BoingBoing, in Erenhot, on the border of China and Mongolia, is a new arch of kissing dinosaurs (two sauropods)
- An old song from 1853 called “Jolly Old Beast,” a song about dinosaurs sung inside a giant iguanodon model on New Years, is now part of an online series at Cambridge University called Cambridge Animal Alphabet, which is celebrating its iguanodon, Iggy, according to Cambridge Network
- A great grandfather is building a private museum in his front yard for his great grandson, which includes a 9 foot dinosaur, according to Mirror
- Steamed reported on two of the game Halo’s levels now have dinosaurs
- News Herald reported on the auction of The Prehistoric Forest, in Ohio
- Connecticut Science Center is updating its “Extreme Dinosaurs” exhibit, with 22 animatronic dinosaurs, according to WTNH
- In Las Vegas, there are dinosaur exhibits at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, the Discovery Children’s Museum and the Springs Preserve, according to Review Journal
- Comics Alliance reported on 10 dinosaur comics, including Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Ninjasaur, and Turok
