Here’s what came out this week in dinosaur news (discussed in Episode 127 of I Know Dino):
- Jeff Goldblum is confirmed to be coming back to the Jurassic Park franchise in Jurassic World 2
- And there will likely be a submarine somwhere in the movie
- Bonapartesaurus Rionegrensis, a saurolophine was discovered representing the rare Argentinian hadrosaurs
- Researchers presented that the Stegosaurs Miragaia and Hesperosaurus should be considered there own genus again, if you even realized synonymizing them was proposed…
- 70 million year old dinosaur eggs have been found on a building site in China
- Lurdusaurus, a possibly semi-aquatic iguanodont that lived in the early Cretaceous in what is now the western Sahara Desert was featured on Earth Archives
- Did Sinosauropteryx and Kulindadromeus remains have feathers or collagen, a new paper says feathers
- Ribs can be used instead of more valuable limb bones for measuring age by counting LAGs
- Giraffititan is getting digitized at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin
- A new movie based on the 1958 children’s book Danny and the Dinosaur will be coming out soon
- The Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis, is building a new eco-friendly facility, which will open in 3 to 4 years and may incorporate smells
- The dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving point in Utah is installing 1,500 solar panels
- Another dinosaur replica caught fire, this time on the island Jersey in the UK
- On June 17, the Schiele Museum of Natural History in North Carolina is opening a new exhibit, Dino Safari
- A funny, but pretty accurate piece of art titled “Castles Made of Sand” by Rhunevild won the Utahraptor competition
- A young girl in Australia caused a bit of a hubbub after not being able to find dinosaur clothes in the girls section of a retail store
- The song “A Round of Applause for Dinosaurs” on YouTube is a goofy, family friendly song
Hear about all these stories and more in Episode 127 of I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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