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I totally meant to post this for Easter!!!! Giant prehistoric bunnies!!!! Special thanks to Slog-tipper Mike for this link!

In other dino-news I’ve neglected to report:

Biologist and paleontologist Dave Hone discovered “a very large tyrannosaurine theropod that is comparable in size to that legendary source of all dinosaur comparisons: Tyrannosaurus rex…”: Zhuchengtyrannus magnus! Here is his blog entry about the discovery, and you can read more here, here, here and here.

Slog-tipper Brad sent this awesome prehistoric spider, combining two of my favorite things: dinosaurs and bugs. (YES! I AM AWARE THAT THIS IS NEITHER A DINOSAUR NOR A BUG! GAWD!)

There have been several articles recently that suggest, unsurprisingly, that dinosaurs may have had lice. Ew.

And, for the LOLs, Slog-tipper John sent this IGN.com article about whether dinosaurs could play video games, and Slog-tipper Brian sent Hipster Dinosaurs.

And finally, don’t forget, animatronic dinosaurs arrive at the Woodland Park Zoo this Saturday!

Thanks again to all my Slog-tippers! You guys find the greatest stuff!

6 replies on “Today’s Dinosaur News”

  2. It’s amazing to me that a spider can be fossilized. And so many millions of years old, too. This is such a fascinating planet.

  3. @2: Some things get trapped in amber, others in sediment.
    If you have a small lake (such as dotted parts of the Mountain West ~50 million years ago) and something soft-bodied dies and falls into it, if it is buried quickly enough by sediment, it may be preserved as a dark carbon-rich smear in the sandstone or mudstone or limestone or whatever that is left behind. Here is an example; it’s a wood-boring beetle from the Green River Formation.

  6. Dang, too bad the animatronic dinosaurs are not up and running during the last few days of the zoo’s winter admission rates.

    I’ll still try to visit.

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