
“Descendants of the Jurassic turiasaurs from Iberia found refuge in the Early Cretaceous of western USA” By Royo-Torres, et al. nature.com/articles/s41598-017-14677-2
- Mierasaurus was small for a sauropod, but was a remarkably complete find
- Hike Mt. Pelmo to see the dinosaur tracks in the Italian Alps, or just check out the pictures here and here
- T. rex claws were likely formidable slashing weapons
- Two new papers refine details from the Chicxulub impact that wiped out the dinosaurs
- One found that ash may have had a large impact on the cooling effect
- The other refined estimates on the size, speed, and angle of the asteroid impact
- The hospital in Choteau, Montana recently did a CT-scan of dinosaur eggs
- A Russian dinosaur egg was studied and estimated to be 100 million years old
- A new, yet unnamed, dinosaur was found on the Isle of Skye in Scotland
- A team from the University of Rhode Island is researching what led to animals going extinct in the Late Triassic
- Sheridan College in Wyoming has found more than 2,000 pounds of fossils from the Morrison Formation
- Extinct Monsters wrote about the Field Museum in Chicago cleaning the skeleton of Sue the T. rex
- From now until January 7, the Burke Museum in Seattle, Washington has an exhibit showing behind-the-scenes work
- The Shoganji temple in Katsushika Ward in Tokyo, Japan now has a Styracosaurus statue guarding it
- Atlas Obscura wrote a piece about the dinosaur themed Prehistoric Forest Amusement Park in Michigan
- On December 15-17 you can see Jurassic Quest at the Austin Convention Center in Texas
- On December 30 and 31, Brooklands Park in New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand, will be having it’s second DinoFest
- Field Station: Dinosaurs is coming to Derby, Kansas
- The first trailer for the Mary Anning film (the Poldark of the Dorset) has been released
- You can play Chrome’s T. rex running game by entering chrome://network-error/-106 in the address bar
Check out these stories, our fun fact, and dinosaur of the day Amargasaurus in episode 157 of the I Know Dino Podcast