New Troodontid Liaoningvenator currie from: https://twitter.com/albertonykus/status/872126978383544320
This week in Dinosaur news:
- A New troodontid Dinosaur Liaoningvenator currie from China was found curled up almost like an embryo
- A Camarasaurus found in Montana is the farthest north and oldest (30 years at death) found to date
- New research sheds light on the mysterious Jurassic Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry from Central Utah
- The debate of whether T. rex had scales or feathers continues with featherless skin impressions published in Biology Letters
- A study of how Australian birds that bury their eggs may help us learn more about how & where titanosaurs buried their eggs
- The Missouri Institute of Natural Science got a “truckload of fossils” in from Wyoming including many hadrosaurs
- Mark Witton explains how paleoartists use bone textures to predict skin composition, thickness, and ornamentation
- Dinosaurs in the Wild Experience begins in Birmingham on June 24 and they put a Dakotaraptor in a mall to advertise
- Laurel Dinosaur Park in Maryland is open to public volunteers to help excavate fossils on the first and third Sundays
- The Australian film, My Pet Dinosaur has begun getting reviews and so far it’s exceeding expectations
- Saurian has sent out copies of the pre-release to kickstarter backers at the $60 level and above
- Neverwinter is releasing a new expansion “Tomb of Annihilation” which will feature dinosaurs
- Who would win in a fight, 10,000 chickens or 20 T. rex? Apparently the chickens, at least according to CNET
- A small child (somehow) gets surrounded by small T. rex toys in a toy store in China and panics
- A new “Lego Idea” features dinosaur fossils in a museum rather than the typical recreations
For our take on all these stories and more check out episode 133 of the I Know Dino podcast