
The SVP 2017 logo is reconstruction of UALVP 52613, a juvenile Chasmosaurus belli found at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta in 2010, drawn by Alberta paleoartist Michael Skrepnick. Retrieved from: http://vertpaleo.org/Annual-Meeting/Annual-Meeting-home.aspx
- SVP 2017 has completed, along with hundreds of excellent presentations and posters. Abstracts can be found here
- A Triceratops skull has been found near Denver, Colorado, by workers building a new public safety building in Thornton
- Volunteers who helped dig for fossils for the North Dakota Geological Survey found two big T.rex teeth
- In Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, paleontologists have found a new dinosaur track
- In Seattle, Washington, visitors to the Burke Museum can see paleontologists prepare a T.rex skull
- From now until September 3, the Museum of Natural Sciences in Barcelona, Spain has a Spinosaurus exhibit
- Jurassic Files published a piece on Andrew Milner, city paleontologist and curator at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site
- The American Museum of Natural History has published archival footage of Roy Chapman Andrew’s expeditions to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in the 1920s
- The Milwaukee Public Museum has two ambassadors, Carla and Carl (two people who go around town in inflatable T. rex costumes)
- We recently heard about Jurassic Foundation, which gives grants up to $3,000 for dinosaur paleontology
- Anna Rothschild, host of Gross Science, posted a video about how dinosaurs had intestinal parasites, based on coprolites that have been found
- Larry Kaplan, a man in Pennsylvania is raising money for ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, by dressing up as a dinosaur and surprising people
- The World of Dinosaurs Fast Fact Book is for sale in the dollar section at Target
- In Beatrice, Nebraska, police are looking for a stolen dinosaur shaped bounce house
- In the UK, Morrisons is selling dinosaur planters (including plants) for 5 pounds each
- The 82nd Airborne Division created a dinosaur photo illustration to celebrate their Centennial Week
- Chocolate Construction has made a mold to create a chocolate T. rex
- Home Depot has dinosaur skeleton Halloween decorations
To hear our discussion of these stories, and our coverage of the presentations from the first day of SVP check out Episode 145 of I Know Dino