Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news:
- Scientists discovered a new Jurassic dinosaur, Isaberrysaurua mollensis, found in Patagonia, according to Nature
- Scientists discovered a new Jurassic sauropodiform dinosaur, Xingxiulong chengi, found in China, according to Nature
- Scientists analyzed the “Fighting Dinosaurs” from Mongolia, according to Paleontological Journal
- Researchers studied three areas in Mongolia to determine how to search for Jurassic dinosaurs in Mongolia, according to Paleontological Journal
- Paleontologists described in detail Iguanodon galvensis, the second valid species of Iguanodon, in Historical Biology
- New titanosaur osteoderms found in North Patagonia are described in ScienceDirect
- Scientists described dinosaur eggshells from Alberta, Canada, in ScienceDirect
- PLOS One explained how sauropods ate to become gigantic
- Scientists described Jurassic carnivorous dinosaur footprints, found in China, according to Vertebrate PalAsiatica
- Scientists described how ceratopsian skulls and lower jaws evolved, according to Evolutionary Ecology
- A bill was introduced in California to name Augustynolophus morrisi the state dinosaur, according to California Legislative Information
- The Environmental Science Institute at the University of Texas at Austin published new videos on Youtube about dinosaurs: a short clip on what dinosaurs looked like, and another short clip on what dinosaurs sounded like, taken from the “Secret Lives of Dinosaurs” talk by Dr. Julia Clarke in their series “Hot Science Cool Talks”
- TV Overmind reported on James Burrows, who built a 125,000 piece dinosaur themed LEGO park
- Chicago Tonight reported on Neil Shubin, a paleontologist from the University of Chicago, who recently came back from his first fossil hunt in Antarctica
- Geek.com wrote about Hasbro’s Toy Fair media briefing, which featured Trypticon, a dinosaur Transformer
- The 65th Symposium of Vertebrate Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy and the 26th Symposium of Paleontological Preparation and Conservation will be held in Birmingham, UK, September 12-15
- According to Birmingham Mail, Birmingham park will have life-sized dinosaurs for the summer
- According to Gadgets Now and ABC, a team of scientists in Melbourne, Australia, are working to combine virtual reality and 3D printing to teach people about dinosuars