Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news:
- Auburn University is raising money to house its only dinosaur egg
- The Backroom at the Field Museum in Chicago has a pop-up bar/museum exhibit starting March 25th
- A 12-year-old girl discovered an Edmontosaurus, and it has been nicknamed after her.
- 20 animatronic dinosaurs are coming to Atlanta starting March 30th
- The Port Lympne Animal Reserve has added a Spinosaurus to its Dinosaur Forest
- The University of Lisbon, Portugal launched a new website, called Paleowire to share news, events, job opportunities, and more related to paleontology
- Sideshow Collectibles has a new Gastonia with an optional pterosaur for $349
- Science has a great overview of early feathered dinosaurs and which could likely fly
- A stage production used lights to simulate dinosaurs at the Mondavi Center
- New research demonstrates how sauropods’ vertebrae interlocked for added strength
- ScienceOpen.com has added papers from the Journal of Paleontological Techniques to their collection of Open Access papers
- Dinosaur survival VR game Island 359 was demoed at GDC with full body tracking
- Giant dinosaur statues are on display at Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay
- An amazing new interactive map is available on paleobiodb.org where you can look up local fossil finds
- New research in the Journal of Theoretical Biology aims to answer why dinosaurs became bipedal
- New Mexico paleontologists have apparently discovered a close relative to Triceratops in their archives
- After a $100 million renovation, the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas is back open with new high-tech dinosaur features
- Chris Ruprecht is working on a family of sculpted raptors
- Dinosaur “Chewy” bursting through a glass pane is on display in Colorado
- A more detailed analysis of Lesothosaurus has been completed
- Dinosaurs from the fossilized forest are being prepared for the Burke Museum
- Nizar Ibrahim recounts the amazing story of Spinosaurus to Winnipeg Free Press
- Rhedosaurus is the “Greatest Dinosaur that Never Lived” according to Spence Speaks Saurian.
- A nostalgic look back at the story of the “Rite of Spring” dinosaurs in Fantasia
- Popular Mechanics tries to answer the question of why T-rex had such small arms
- New tracks found at a previously described dinosaur track site in China
- James Gurney makes a beautiful painting of the oviraptor Khaan mckennai