Dinosaur day care...

discovered with 15 infants crowded in a nest (click image to enlarge).

Image credit: Live Science.

This is not a joke...

Swiss Company Unveils Watch Made From Dinosaur Poop. (Click image to enlarge.) Go ahead, indulge yourself. It's only ~$11k.

Image credit: redOrbit.

Late Cretaceous lunch...

67 Million-Year-Old Snake Fossil Found Eating Baby Dinosaurs

Here's the technical article.

Mistakes do happen...

Paleontologists: 'We've Been Looking At Dinosaurs Upside Down'

Good for them...

Taking Down the Dinosaur Thief

"A rare and nearly complete dinosaur skeleton stolen from private property in Montana and stored in an evidence locker for more than two years has been turned over to researchers."

Dinosaur chopsticks...

for your next geo-geek party, including ankylosaurus, brontosaurus, parosaurolophus, pteranodon, stegosaurus, T-Rex (tyrannosaurus rex), triceratops, and velociraptor. Get 'em here, and don't pass up the dinosaur cookie cutter.

Dinosaurs were broiled...

but not burned after the Chicxulub event according to a recent study. Here's the technical abstract.

Yum. That's just how I like my dinosaur. Accompanied with a wild rice pilaf. And a nice Zinfandel.

Image credit: NASA.

Dino park north of Moab...

one step closer to being built: County approves zone change on north U.S. 191. Previous related post.

Open-air dinosaur tracks museum...

has been proposed north of Moab, Utah. The project, tentatively called "Moab Giants," is located at the turn-off to Dead Horse Point State Park and the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park.

"The proposal identifies a path winding through displays of casts of dinosaur tracks and replicas of animals from the early Jurassic through the late Cretaceous geologic periods. Participants would be allowed to “dig” for bone replicas."

The proposal has been tabled by the Grand County Planning and Zoning Commission, however, in order to give staff more time to review information provided by the applicant.

Not Chicxulub, but Shiva...

killed the dinosaurs during the KT event, according to a new hypothesis. Link to technical abstract.

And I thought it was due to smoking. I need to make a better effort to keep up with the current literature.

Jurassic Park...

here we come: first dinosaur blood extracted from 80 million year old hadrosaur bone. It was bound to happen.

My advice: if we're going to mess with this stuff then be sure to build really big and strong fences.

Chicxulub crater may predate...

the K-T boundary by 300,000 years according to new research published in the Journal of the Geological Society, casting doubt on the popular notion that this impact was responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Key evidence:

"At one site at El Penon, the researchers found 52 species present in sediments below the impact spherule layer, and counted all 52 still present in layers above the spherules. We found that not a single species went extinct as a result of the Chicxulub impact, says Keller."

Instead, prolific volcanic eruptions at the Deccan Traps in India seems the likely candidate.

Dinosaur dung...

has been stolen from the Natural History Museum in London. Several coprolite specimens have vanished and museum staff regard them as "priceless."

[Insert countless inappropriate jokes here.]

I hope the dastardly thieves at least washed their hands after their caper.