New ankylosaur fossils from Zhejiang Province, China, and other news stories

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

From: Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com

A number of recent dino (and non-dino) news stories:


In Chinese:

New ankylosaur fossils, including tail with club, found in Zhejiang
Province, displayed at Zhejiang Museum of Natural History

http://www.chinanews.com/cul/2013/07-05/5010126.shtml

>From Google Translate with a couple of corrections:

"parts of a skull, dorsal vertebrae, sacrum, tail hammer, ossification
of the tendons, deck, ribs, humerus, ilium, ischium, femur, tibia and
fibula, toe, etc. These fossils belong to at least four ankylosaur
individuals, one of which is a juvenile."

Picture of ankylosaur tail with club

http://news.cqnews.net/html/2013-07/05/content_26806749.htm

Video showing news conference and more pictures of tail and club

http://www.chinanews.com/shipin/cnstv/2013/07-05/news247729.shtml?r=1373044456424

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In English


Fundraising to keep "Dakota" (hadrosaur) in North Dakota

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/267272/group/homepage/

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Story of how original Iguanodon tooth ended up in New Zealand

http://www.listener.co.nz/from-our-archive/a-tooth-in-time/


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Louis Vuitton fashion store in New York City uses "gold dinosaurs" in
window displays

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/louis-vuitton-dinosaur-window-display

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New book highlights Eocene fossils from Fossil Lake in Wyoming,
including cimolestid with prehensile tail:

Video interview (ignore mention of "Utah" in text!)

http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2013/06/27/lost-world-fossil-lake

BBC news item

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23152462