
Premaxilla and maxilla of Paranthodon africanus NHMUK R47338. A new study by Raven & Maidment supports its position as a Stegosaur.
Here’s what came out in this week’s dinosaur news:
- A new paper demonstrates that ceratopsians probably didn’t evolve horns and frills to recognize one another
- A very questionable hypothesis suggests that dinosaurs may not have been able to identify poison and accidentally started to drive themselves extinct
- Newly described material helps to support the claim that Paranthodon was a stegosaur
- Students at the University of Kansas recently excavated a possible young T. rex from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana
- The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, North Carolina, recently unveiled a clutch of oviraptorosaur eggs
- The Philip J. Currie Museum in Alberta is launching a “Paleontologist For A Day” program this summer
- The Bess Bower Dunn Museum near in Libertyville, Illinois (near Chicago), has a new life sized Dryptosaurus to welcome visitors
- Yorkshire Museum in the UK has a new VR exhibit called Yorkshire’s Jurassic World
- This summer, Milwaukee County Zoo in Wisconsin will have dinosaur summer camps
- Colin Dunn from the Bureau of Land Management leads Saturday morning hikes to Prehistoric Trackways National Monument
- In Essex, in the UK, there’s a new tourist attraction, an 18 hole mini golf course called Mighty Claws Adventure Golf
- In Portland, Oregon, a demolition machine decorated to look like a dinosaur tore down an old dentistry building.
- ScreenRant published that Jurassic World struggles to make dinosaurs scary, we think they’re just not trying hard enough
- Think Geek‘s April Fool’s joke featured a “Jurassic World Dinosaur Detection System”
- Mattel is selling a huge assortment of Jurassic World and Jurassic Park toys, Walmart seems to be the main place to get them at the moment
Check out these stories, our fun fact, and dinosaur of the day Stygimoloch in episode 176 of the I Know Dino Podcast!
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