Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news:
- Nicholas Longrich published an article in Cretaceous Research about a new ceratopsian dinosaur, possibly a leptoceratosid, according to Belfast Telegraph
- A new article in Nature Communications talks about how bird embryos show the evolution of dinosaur ankles (also see Biodiversity Heritage Library for the original birds v. dinosaurs, in 1868)
- NPR‘s Jason Sheehan gave a glowing review of Simon Stålenhag‘s art book, “Tales From the Loop,” a collection of stories and paintings that portray an alternate Sweden in the 80s and 90s that includes abandoned robots and dinosaurs
- According to Aljazeera, China is launching a gold rush for dinosaur fossil excavation
- In China there is a “dinosaur king,” paleontologist Xu Xing who has found so many dinosaurs he’s lost count, according to WDSU
- Lisa Grainger wrote in The Telegraph about her and her team’s experience finding dinosaur prints in Zimbabwe
- In Auckland, New Zealand, visitors to Kelly Tarlton’s Sea Life Aquarium can now see digital displays of prehistoric sea creatures, according to Scoop
- In San Antonio, Texas, the Witte Museum has a new mascot, a T-rex called Tex-Rex, and will be opening the Naylor Family Dinosaur Gallery in spring 2017, according to KSAT
- Atlas Obscura writes about a couple who turned their Best Western in Lakewood, Colorado into an historically accurate dinosaur hotel
