New sauropod with potential gut contents found near Winton, Australia Retrieved from www.smh.com.au

This week in Dinosaur news:

• A sauropod was discovered with gut contents near Winton, Australia and will be put on display at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum in about 5 years according to SMH
• Sensory organs on spinosaurid snouts may not be definitive evidence of aquatic behavior according to Nature’s Scientific Reports
• The Triassic-Jurassic extinction is marked with a million years of mercury deposits consistent with massive volcanic activity according to PNAS
• Nearly 200 new dinosaur prints including a possible running ornithischian from Morocco were described in SGE
• New Deinonychosaurian footprints have been found in China and Iran
• 5 partial vertebrae from the youngest known Barosaurus were published in the Annals of Carnegie Museum
• Lida Xing and his work documenting dinosaur footprints and amber was featured in an article in Science Mag
• Drumheller, Canada, where the Royal Tyrrell Museum is, is considering renaming some of its streets after dinosaurs according to Calgary Herald
• Dinosaur Park in Laurel, Maryland is open to students and visitors according to Extinct Monsters
• The new conference Future Con had a feature on Antarctic dinosaurs according to Live Science
• MOAB field office has free “Jurassic Walks” and talks every weekend until September according to Deseret News
• Leonardo, the mummified hadrosaur housed in the Great Plains Dinosaur Museum now has a plesiosaur roomate according to KTVQ
• The dinosaurs at the Milwaukee Public Museum in Wisconsin are getting an upgrade according to the Journal Sentinel
• The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences has a Parasaurolophus exhibit and posted its recreated sounds on their tumblr page
• Phil Currie gave a lecture to celebrate Friends of the Royal Alberta Museum Society’s 35th anniversary according to Edmonton Examiner
• The American Museum of Natural History celebrated the 70th anniversary of its Coelophysis
• The Royal Tyrrell Museum posted an article about a collision between palynologists and dinosaur paleontologists for excavation priority
• The musical Triassic Parq has permiered in New Orleans featuring female dinosaurs spontaneously turning male like in Jurassic Park according to Nola.com
• Political candidate Jon Ossoff got support from a gang of T. rex clad voters according to Elite Daily
• The new book, What the Dinosaurs Did at School, features dinosaur toys wreaking havoc on a school according to Kirkus Reviews
• A new dinosaur coloring book including facts and comics has been released according to Crossroads Today

For our take on all these news stories check out episode 137 of the I Know Dino podcast

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