
New “elephant bird mimic” Aepyornithomimus tugrikinensis Retrieved from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05272-6
This week in Dinosaur news:
- New ornithomimid discovered in southern Mongolia, Aepyornithomimus tugrikinensis, described in Nature’s Scientific Reports
- Two new studies look into how fast dinosaurs could (or couldn’t) run
- Bishop et al. looked at humans, modern birds, and dinosaur tracks and determined they likely used “grounded running”
- Sellers et al. used computer models to simulate biomechanical stresses and found that T. rex wouldn’t have (aerial) run
- The first titanosaur with multiple pathologies (3 to be exact) was described in Cretaceous Research
- Connecticut now has an official state dinosaur, Dilophosaurus
- “T-rex” and Sauropod emojis are available on Facebook and Twitter and will soon be on iOS
- Fossilized hadrosaur teeth have been found in the Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan and are on display until Sept. 18
- The Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville, VA has a Triceratops on display with T. rex bite marks
- From now until September 3, London Zoo has robotic dinosaurs at their Zoorasic Park exhibit
- The Westminster Collection released a 24-karat gold plated T. rex coin with a skeleton that shows under UV light
- Singapore released a new set of limited edition EZ-link cards with dinosaur prints
Check out http://iknowdino.com/liliensternus-episode-140/ For our discussion on these topics and more