Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news:
- A new study finds that dinosaurs took 3 to 6 months to hatch, which may have contributed to the demise of non-avian dinosaurs (compared to birds who incubated quickly), according to Time and PNAS
- The dinosaur Limusaurus started off life with teeth and when it grew up, replaced its teeth with a beak and gastroliths, according to The Verge, The Guardian, and Current Biology
- According to Phys, biologists have found an indicator of atheleticism in fossils
- Two new dinosaur emojis are approved and coming in June 2017, according to Unicode
- Ark released a trailer for a new dinosaur VR game, Ark Park, according to Gamespot and Arkparkvr
- The farming game Stardew Valley allows you to farm dinosaurs like chickens, according to iTechPost
- Creative Beast Studio, which makes scientifically accurate dinosaur toys, at 1/6 scale, has reopened it’s pre-orders for The Beasts of the Mesozoic: Raptor Series, according to Instagram and Facebook
- Police are looking for the person who vandalized fossilized dinosaur footprints in Skye, according to the Guardian and the Mirror
- Blue Sky Press has published a new children’s book, called How Do Dinosaurs Choose Their Pets?
- According to Inquisitr, Love magazine published an advent calendar, and day 22 featured a one minute video of model Alexis Ren dancing The Nutcracker with “Rexy the Coach dinosaur”
- Business Insider made a short, about minute long video that shows how humans compare to the actual size of dinosaurs
- KHOU posted about Dino, from Cognitoys, which is “an Amazon Echo for children”
- Camper has a new line of shoes, called Dino, and they look like they belong on the Flintstones
