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- A beautifully preserved unnamed nodosaur has gone on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum and has so much preserved skin that the skeleton is inaccessible.
- National Geographic created a wonderful 3D tour of the specimen
- Suncor has a video showing the excavation of the fossil from the quarry
- The first ankylosaurid known with a complete tail club and skull, Zuul crurivastator, was recovered from Montana’s Badlands and named after a monster from Ghostbusters
- The oviraptor found in a nest in the 90’s has been repatriated to China and is officially named Beibeilong sinensis, after it’s nickname “Baby Louie”
- New dinosaur tracks found in Springtown, Texas. Likely made by a family of Acrocanthosaurus according to the Perot museum
- Dr. Michael Pittman has a new TEDx Talk about “Laser Simulated Fluorescence in Paleontology”
- The 19th Biannual Conference of the Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa is scheduled for July 5th–9th 2016 and abstracts are published
- BBC has published a new documentary called The Day the Dinosaurs Died
- Over 500 issues from the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences are available via open access right now
- CBC News wrote a feature on Phil Currie, who has been a part of dinosaur finds and research on all 7 continents
- Montana Standard published a piece about Fort Peck Interpretive Center in Montana
- Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis is undergoing a makeover, but is still open to visitors and day long dinosaur digs.
- Jurassic Kingdom and its 30 animatronic dinosaurs won’t be traveling to Bristol, UK as previously planned; They’ll be staying in Birmingham until June 4th instead
- Granger, Washington will be adding another dinosaur sculpture (a Megalosaurus) to its collection of 33 on June 3rd
- A man in Jersey in the UK lost his job in part for making a model dinosaur at work (he’s not employed as a sculptor)
- The Federation of Leagues Against Corrida (bullfighting) created an animation of a matador stabbing a velociraptor in a similar fashion
- There’s a Jurassic Car Wash in Austin, TX with a T. rex, Styracosaurus, Velociraptor, and Dilophosaurus
- Chris (founder of Rent a Dinosaur in the UK) had some of his dinosaurs featured in the Dinosaur Playground Song music video
Listen to episode 130 of I Know Dino to hear all about these stories