The Biomechanics Behind Extreme Osteophagy in Tyrannosaurus rex By Paul Gignac-Gregory Erickson – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-02161-w
In the news:
- T. rex had such a powerful bite it may have caused “catastrophic explosion of some bones” according to Nature’s Scientific Reports
- A theropod footprint was discovered imprinted in a fossilized brachiosaur vertebra and is now on display in the UK
- New theropod, sauropod, and possibly stegosaur/ankylosaur footprints found on the island Oléron in France
- Earth Touch News Network posted a story about a track site of Anomoepus which were found while constructing a pond
- David Hone and Jordan Mallon explain why we can’t tell male and female dinosaurs apart in an article in Paleontology
- Sauropod coprolites give us new insight into what the long-necked giants were eating (and possibly drinking)
- The Chinese Academy of Sciences launched an excavation zone in Yanji city expected to cover 10 square kilometers
- The China Post issued “Chinese Dinosaurs” a set of postage stamps of seven dinosaurs that were found in China
- CNN published a story about Chinese artist Zhao Chuang, who brings dinosaurs to life
- Mike Habib discussed the Mesozoic as the “age of dead baby dinosaurs” in an article on Inverse
- Dinosaur Ridge Visitor Center is struggling to keep up with the large number of visitors and may move to a larger building
- The Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum in Vernal, Utah, is sponsoring a Fossil Field School June 19-23
- NewsOK published an article about dinosaurs in Oklahoma including hundreds of Apatosaurus bones
- Dinosaur Gardens just opened for the season in Michigan and is free to visit
- Stone Mountain Park in Georgia has an attraction called Dinosaur Explore with 20 life-size dinosaurs that move and roar
- Thanks to a generous $10 million donation Yale will soon have a new lecture hall named after Othniel Charles Marsh
- Flamborough Patio Furniture (which is known for making dinosaur statues) suffered from serious fire damage, but remains open
- Barnaby Dixon showed off an amazing dinosaur finger puppet in a video
- The Facebook group Plastic Paleontology is open for all fans of prehistoric toys
- It turns out Mookie Wilson never actually said his famous quote about dinosaurs and the 1986 article was a fake
- The San Francisco Silent Film Festival screened the original 1925 version of The Lost World based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel
- Our listener Luke created a new list of great dinosaur books features a couple of our books as well as many other great choices
- Inverse published a great list of 10 dinosaur documentaries that you can stream online including the latest “The Day the Dinosaurs Died”
To here a discussion on these stories and more check out Episode 132 of I Know Dino