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Our Adorable Past

The Brain Scoop Explains Why We Can’t Have Cloned Dinosaur Pets

by Susana Polo | 9:27 am, May 14th, 2013

But we can still dream. Part two of Emily Graslie‘s series on De-Extinction can be found below.

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It Belongs in a Museum!

Smuggled Tyrannosaur Skeleton Returned to Its Rightful Home

by Susana Polo | 4:13 pm, May 6th, 2013

If you follow the world of fossil hunting, you may remember this story. And if you don’t, you might remember it anyway, because there’s little that piques the interest of weird news reporters than headlines that include phrases like “dinosaur smugglers.” Dinosaurs all over the world can rest easy tonight, knowing that the most complete skeleton of Tyrannosaurus bataar ever found is being shipped back to its place of origin, Mongolia, now that the court case United States of America v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton (actual name) has been settled.

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hold on to your butts

Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water: Scientists Discover Swimming Tyrannosaurs

by Susana Polo | 4:16 pm, April 10th, 2013

In Jurassic Park III (yes, Jurassic Park III, okay, I’ve seen it, and am not ashamed to say that I loved it, though certainly for no reasons that the makers of Jurassic Park III would have preferred*) one of the only smart things the characters do is to find a large abandoned boat, get it running, and sail it to the coast where they can hypothetically meet up with their military rescuers. See, the predators that are after them won’t be able to reach them in the middle of the river, and they can just coast on by all these calm, gentle herbivores in a nice montage of pseudo-John Williams music. The only threat to them on the water is, of course, Spinosaurus, the movie’s omnipotent murder machine with a satellite phone stuck in its guts.

So it’s a good thing, really, that science has come along to prove Jurassic Park III wrong, because there was absolutely nothing terrible about it before this revelation.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: A Dinosaur Dating Sim

by Susana Polo | 5:03 pm, April 9th, 2013

Short and sweet, Jurassic Heart is definitely worth five surreal minutes of your time. (The Daily Dot)

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And All Was Right With the World

The Australian Billionaire Who’s Building a Replica Titanic Decided to Build Jurassic Park, Too

by Rebecca Pahle | 2:45 pm, April 4th, 2013

Granted, the dinosaur-themed resort will be filled with giant robotic dinosaurs, not real ones. But if anyone ever figures out the cloning process you can bet Clive Palmer will be the first in line to buy some embryos.

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hold on to your butts

A Jurassic Park Parody With Some Really Clever Girls

by Susana Polo | 1:13 pm, March 27th, 2013

Easy, breezy, beautiful, Clever Girl.

Also, Jurassic Park is coming back to theaters next week, which must be why I keep coming across all this JP themed fare.

(via Geeks are Sexy.)

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Clever Girl

Five-Year-Old Girl Lives the Dream: Discovers a Dinosaur, Has It Named After Her

by Rebecca Pahle | 11:45 am, March 21st, 2013

Daisy Morris is just five years old, and already she’s discovered a brand new species of pterosaur, named Vertidraco daisymorrisae in her honor. Give this girl a Jurassic Park 4 cameo.

Speaking of Jurassic Park 4, we have a bite-sized morsel of news on that as well. Gotta put the dinosaur items together in one post; wouldn’t want them to attack the other stories.

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See How the Guy With the Coolest Job Ever Created Jurassic Park‘s Spitting Dinosaur [VIDEO]

by Rebecca Pahle | 1:15 pm, March 11th, 2013

I will never get tired of watching behind-the-scenes dinosaur footage from Jurassic Park. Never. There’s a reason the special effects of that movie have aged so well, and that reason is puppets. The Stan Winston School, which made the dinos we all know and love so very much, previously released a video about the making of the Velociraptor. And now the spitting dinosaur (or Dilophosaurus, if we’ve being technical) that kills poor Nedry gets its turn in the spotlight.

Favorite part: “This is one of the coolest tongues I’ve ever done.”

(via: io9)

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Benedict Cumberbatch Playing Professor Snape

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:00 pm, February 8th, 2013

If you’re a Benedict Cumberbatch fan, you probably already know he does a mean Alan Rickman impression. Well, the creators of The Simpsons have decided to utilize that talent for this Sunday’s Valentine’s-themed episode. Not only does he voice Severus Snape, he also does the Prime Minister. Unfortunately, the video is not embeddable, watch a clip over at Entertainment Weekly.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: The Animatronic Dinosaur I Wish I’d Had as a Kid

by Rebecca Pahle | 5:00 pm, February 6th, 2013

Made by Scottish toy company H. Grossman Ltd, this “moving, breathing Megasaur” is approximately 20 feet long and has a moving head, eyes, arms, legs, and mouth. Did I say I wanted it as a kid? I mean I want it now. (via Gizmodo)

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