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Marry Me, Man Who Plays The Jurassic Park Theme On Electric Guitar

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:20 pm, February 5th, 2013

Guitarist Eric Calderone, you have taken be back to high school, the days when I was in love when ALL THE BAND MEMBERS. Thank you for that. But also, thank you for giving me Jurassic Park feels. Those are always welcome. Now if you’ll all excuse me, I’m going to go picture a Brontosaurus headbanging.

(via /Film)

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These Folks Have a Lawn Dinosaur, and They Dress Him Up in Seasonally Appropriate Costumes

by Susana Polo | 10:15 am, February 1st, 2013

According to Sarcasticonomist on Reddit, his family lawn dinosaur, Dug, was purchased from a place that… sold these dinosaurs, I guess… after essentially the following conversation.

Sarcasticonomist: Wow, look at those dinosaurs. Who buys those?

Sarcasticonomist’s wife: We do!

And then she even put it on her credit card. Here are some more pictures of Dug.

Researchers Discover a Tiny, Feathered, Grumpy-Looking Dinosaur

by Rebecca Pahle | 4:15 pm, January 30th, 2013

Eosinopteryx brevipenna is small (less than a foot long), feathered, and flightless. It’s basically the smaller, dinosaur version of a penguin. Probably 0% scientifically accurate, but you know what? I don’t care. I want to live in a world where there was once a dinosaur penguin. Let me have this.

Things We Saw Today: How to Make a Lockpick Out of Your Underwire

by Susana Polo | 5:04 pm, January 25th, 2013

Step by step instructions on Instructables. (via LifeHacker)

The Brontësaurus Sisters

by Susana Polo | 12:06 pm, January 16th, 2013

Timothy Leo Taranto has prepared a series of puns on the names of famous authors, but this one spoke directly to our hearts. You can see the rest here.

Previously in Dinosaurs

Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Dinosaur Fossils, Won’t Join Han Solo and Mal Reynolds in the Smugglers Hall of Fame

by Rebecca Pahle | 11:02 am, January 2nd, 2013

There’ve gotta be easier ways to make money than dinosaur fossil smuggling. Granted, it’s a cool-sounding profession—scratch that, an awesome-sounding profession. But as Florida fossils dealer Eric Prokopi found, countries don’t take lightly to having their precious paleontological artifacts stolen and sold for personal gain. Who knew?

Though Prokopi wouldn’t be in all the trouble he’s in now if he hadn’t gotten caught. Han Solo, God of Smugglers, is so disappointed in you right now, sir.

Things We Saw Today: A DIY Crack in the Universe

by Susana Polo | 5:00 pm, December 31st, 2012

Now you can have your very own crack in the wall of the universe for your wall, because it’s not like you got tired of seeing it at the end of every episode of Doctor Who Series 5. (Bit Rebels)

Newly Discovered Smiling Dinosaur Looks Like It Belongs in a Pixar Movie

by Rebecca Pahle | 4:15 pm, December 20th, 2012

…though probably as the villain. It’s a little creepy looking, let’s be honest.

Kids Go Fishing, Catch 13,000-Year-Old Mastodon Bone Instead

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:45 am, December 14th, 2012

Some kids have all the luck.

The Epic Discovery of the World’s Oldest Dinosaur… In a Storage Closet

by Rebecca Pahle | 11:00 am, December 5th, 2012

The oldest dinosaur in the world has been found, but paleontologists didn’t discover the fossil (y’see, because it’s really, really old and also because it’s a literal fossil… oh, shut up, I haven’t had my mocha yet) at some Jurassic Park-esque dig. Nope. It had just been squirreled away in a closet for some 50-odd years.

In the store room the Natural History Museum in London, to be exact. The remains were dug up in Tanzania in the mid-1930s and were studied for several decades before being put into storage. Recent study dates the new species, called Nyasasaurus parringtoni, at between 247 million and 235 million years old, making it between 10 and 15 million years older than the next-oldest dinosaur we know about.

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