Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news:
- According to Smithsonian Mag, sauropods had springy bones called cervical ribs in their necks that helped pump blood to their brain
- A new article in Cretaceous Research describes a well-preserved Ornithomimus, which had skin tissue and tail feathers, according to IFL Science and LiveScience
- A new study presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Wyoming found that T-rexes may have been cannibals, according to Tech Times
- A new article in PeerJ said that Titanosaurs probably had similar nesting behaviors to modern Australasian megapodes (turkeys), according to National Geographic
- Taylor Francis Online has a new article on the trackways from the Morrison Formation in easter Utah, which reveals an Allosaurus that was limping, according to National Geographic
- An adolescent Pentaceratops’ bones were lifted via military helicopter from New Mexico’s Bisti Wilderness Area to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, according to CNN
- Geekologie reported on Sarah Hardy, a food artist selling chocolate dinosaur teeth
- io9 published an interview with the writers of Marvel’s newest comic, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
- The Guardian reported on Randy Miller, a man known for doing stunts with lions, tigers, and bears, who taught Chris Pratt how to potentially deal with the raptors in Jurassic World
- The Good Dinosaur is coming out in theaters later this month, and io9 reports on the story behind the movie, which was originally scheduled to release in 2014
- Will Feldman made a Google map that highlights where you can find dinosaurs