This Week in Dinosaur News: Dragon Teeth on TV, Dinosaur Casts and New Displays, World's Largest Dinosaur Toy Collection, and More

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Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news:

Bird reproductive systems evolved from dinosaurs (not surprisingly), according to Daily Mail and The Auk

Seattle’s Burke Museum is getting a T-rex skull, according to GeekWire and The Independent
Randy Knol has the world’s largest dinosaur toy collection, according to Smithsonian Mag
New dinosaur game “Island 359” is out on Steam, according to Tom’s Hardware

Football player William Hayes said he believes in mermaids but not dinosaurs, according to NFL
Leaping Laelaps, or Dryptosaurus is coming back to the New Jersey State Museum, according to Newsworks
BBC wrote an article about Jane, a theropod found in 2003 in north-west Montana, which some scientists think is a juvenile T-rex and others classify as Nanotyrannus

South Africa is having a dinosaur renaissance, according to Forbes
Wild Eye Releasing is coming out with a straight to DVD film on September 27, called Killersaurus, according to Horror Movies
Lightning struck in the Petrified Forest National Part, and it looked like a T-rex about to bite down on a rock formation, according to Popsci

Our listener Mark Sparky Evans is competing to be one of the 20 finalists in a new show called The Perfect World Project, and made a video where he assembles a 3D Velociraptor
The Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville will be getting a full cast skeleton of Stegosaurus, according to Martinsville Bulletin
The play Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs 2: The Magic Cutlass (the sequel to award-winning play Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs) is going on tour in the UK, according to Broadway World

At Islands of Adventure, a theme park at Universal Orlando, a service dog bravely attacks a Velociraptor, according to Huffington Post
According to Deadline, National Geographic Channel just closed a script development deal for a limited TV series of Michael Crichton’s Dragon Teeth, which will be published in April of next year

This Week in Dinosaur News: Dragon Teeth on TV, Dinosaur Casts and New Displays, World’s Largest Dinosaur Toy Collection, and More