Gansu Province, China
Remains of a dinosaur, nicknamed the "giraffe of the Mesozoic" due to its long neck and forelimbs, were recently discovered in China, according to a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The dinosaur, Qiaowanlong kangxii, is the first Early Cretaceous brachiosaur ever found in China.
Source: Discovery Channel

Eromanga, Queensland, Australia
Australian palaeontologists say they have discovered a new species of dinosaur on a sheep farm in the northern state of Queensland. The fossil remains of the large plant-eating sauropod, nicknamed Zac, are about 97 million years old. They were found near the town of Eromanga, in a fossil-rich area that was once covered by a vast inland sea. Palaeontologists say the find confirms Australia's importance as a centre for dinosaur discovery.
Source: BBC News

Montreal, Canada
Hans Larsson, Research Chair in Macro Evolution at McGill University in Montreal, suspects that by manipulating certain key genetic signals during the early phases of a chicken embryo’s ontogeny, he may be able to stimulate the organism into developing features of a dinosaur’s anatomy that have long since vanished into the chicken’s evolutionary past.
Source: RedOrbit

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
A five-year court battle over ownership of Tinker, a 65 million-year-old skeleton of a teenage Tyrannosaurus unearthed in South Dakota, is back in court. Commissioners in Harding County, where the fossils were first found in 1998, has asked a federal appeals court for another hearing after it validated a lease entitling the county to only 10 percent of any sales proceeds.
Source: Houston Chronicle

Luanda, Angola
Angola is best known for oil and diamonds, but dinosaur hunters say the country holds a "museum in the ground" of rare fossils -- some actually jutting from the earth -- waiting to be discovered."Angola is the final frontier for palaeontology," explained Louis Jacobs, of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, part of the PaleoAngola project which is hunting for dinosaur fossils. "Due to the war, there's been little research carried out so far, but now we're getting in finally and there's so much to find. "In some areas there are literally fossils sticking out of the rocks. It's like a museum in the ground."
Source: AFP

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Paleontologists working in southern Utah have unearthed a Dolichorhynchops plesiosaur—a gigantic Dinosaur Era marine reptile—with 289 stones in its gut. How did the stones get there? The plesiosaur swallowed them.
Source: Discovery channel

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The first fossil footprints of a landing pterosaur have been discovered, a new study says (giant-pterosaur picture). The tracks offer rare insight into a dinosaur-age mystery: How did these flying reptiles move?
Source: National Geographic

London, England
As the Walking With Dinosaurs show tours the UK this month, we asked biologist John Hutchinson, an expert on dinosaur locomotion at the Royal Veterinary College in North Mymms, near London, to comment on the realism of the show's life-size automatons.
Source: New Scientist

Spain
One of the last non-avian dinosaurs on Earth was a muscular, swimming duck-billed species that paleontologists recently discovered in Spain, according to a new study that has been accepted for publication in the journal Comptes Rendus Palevol. Co-author Jose Ignacio Canudo told Discovery News that the hadrosaur, Arenysaurus ardevoli, meaning "sand dinosaur," lived just "a few thousand years before the K/T boundary."
Source: DiscoveryNews

Basel, Switzerland
Researchers working high in the Alps of canton Graubünden have uncovered the highest and largest dinosaur tracks of their kind, a find 205-210 million years old. A team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum in Basel found last week the footprints of a predatory dinosaur at 3,300 metres in Ela Nature Reserve, Switzerland's largest park.
Source: swissinfo.ch

Beijing, China
China's oldest and largest dinosaur fossils are to arrive at their new home in Beijing from southern Yunnan Province Saturday, China Science and Technology Museum said Friday. The fragile bones, which were flown from Yunnan on Friday, would be transported in special anti-shock vehicles on Saturday in15 cushioned containers to the new site of China Science and Technology Museum in the center of Olympic Green, said Xin Bing, deputy curator of the museum. The skeletons of three prehistoric beasts are to meet the public at the opening ceremony of the new museum on Sept. 16 in Beijing, said Xin Bing, the museum's deputy head.
Source: China View

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Although past research has suggested Tyrannosaurus rex was related to chickens, now findings hint this giant predator might have acted chicken too. Instead of picking on dinosaurs its own size, researchers now suggest T. rex was a baby killer that liked to swallow defenseless prey whole.
Source: MSNBC

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Looters who plundered one of Utah's newest troves of dinosaur bones got away with ribs, vertebrae and part of an ancient legbone they had to bust apart to remove. They also stole hidden scientific clues about the life of a young diplodocus dinosaur that roamed the area some 150 million years ago. "It's like pieces of a puzzle that are now gone," said Scott Williams, collections and exhibits manager at the Burpee Museum of Natural History, the Rockford, Ill.-based institution that has been digging at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management-owned site.
Source: Associated Press

Pensacola, Florida, USA
A federal judge has cleared the way for the government’s seizure of a creationism theme park in Pensacola. A ruling this week says the nine properties that make up Dinosaur Adventure Land, and two bank accounts associated with the park will be used to satisfy $430,400 in restitution owed to the federal government.
Source: PNJ.com

Cimarron, New Mexico, USA
Deep in the tropical jungle of northern New Mexico, hiding under the 100-foot canopy of trees, the ancient giant predator left an unmistakable mark when it got its foot stuck in the mud.
Source: Victoria Advocate.com

Drumheller, Alberta, Canada
It seems that fans of Drumheller and its dinosaur heritage have stood up and spoken. The Mail posed the question to its readers in the July 15 edition, is Drumheller the Dinosaur Capital of The World? It was in response to a blog that is connected to www.smithsonian.com posted on June 16 of this year. The blog asked the question “Where is the Dinosaur Capital of the World?”
Source: The Drumheller Mail

Vernal, Utah, USA
There was a time when hordes of visitors -- up to a half million a year -- explored the lost world of the Stegosaurus, Allosaurus and Diplodocus at Dinosaur National Monument.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune

Utah, USA
Far up a remote canyon in Dinosaur National Monument, paleontologists have discovered a remarkable deposit of footprints made by ancient mammals as they crossed the sand dunes of an ancient desert.
Source: Craig Daily Press

Utah, USA
The most complete skeleton of a type of pot-bellied dinosaur, a therizinosaur, has been discovered in southern Utah. Such remains shed light on the evolution of leafy and meaty diets back in paleo times, suggesting that iconic predators like Velociraptor may have evolved from less fearsome plant-eating ancestors. The newly discovered dinosaur, dubbed Nothronychus graffami, lived some 93 million years ago. When alive, the animal would have stood at 13 feet (4 meters) and sported a beaked mouth and forelimbs tipped with 9 inch- (22 cm)-long sickle claws.
Source: LiveScience

Tokyo
Crews in Tokyo have finished putting together a replica of what is believed to be the world's biggest dinosaur skeleton.
Source: KGO-TV/DT San Francisco

Australia
Paleontologists have discovered the world’s oldest dinosaur burrows in Australia. The 106-million-year-old burrows are the first to be found outside of North America, and were much closer to the South Pole when they were created. In total, three separate burrows have been discovered, the largest of which was about 6ft. long. Each burrow had a similar design and was just large enough to contain the body of a small dinosaur. The discovery supports the theory that dinosaurs living in harsh, cold climates burrowed underground to survive.
Source: redOrbit

Chanchun, China
Scientists in northeastern China's Jilin Province and their Belgian colleagues had recently named a new herbivorous dinosaur species Helioceratops, one of its discoverers told Xinhua Wednesday. The cretaceous dinosaur lived in the area of Jilin 100 million years ago, said Jin Liyong, also the curator of Jilin University Museum. He said, Helioceratops belong to the basal neoceratopsian dinosaur family, which existed in northern China and southern Mongolia.
Source: China View

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Americans by-and-large admire scientists -- unless they get crosswise on issues with religious overtones such as evolution, global warming, embryonic stem cell research -- according to a new survey released today from the Pew Forum. Dr. Alan I. Leshner, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, called it a "communications gap" but it may be more of a belief gap.
Source: USA Today

Gainesville, Florida
A University of Florida biologist thinks he knows how dinosaurs got so big. And it turns out, Popeye and Pachycephalosaurus may have a thing or two in common. In a paper appearing this week in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, UF biology professor Brian McNab concludes that contrary to common belief, dinosaurs didn’t attain their colossal body sizes because they had more food to eat. Instead, McNab says, like Popeye with his spinach-induced bulging muscles, dinosaurs simply converted more of the energy in their food to body mass.
Source: University of Florida

Queensland, Australia
Palaeontologists have unveiled three new Australian dinosaur skeletons in outback Queensland today. The two herbivores and one carnivore, excavated from the Winton formation, roamed our land during the Cretaceous period - 98 million years ago. The research, published in the current edition of PloS One, puts Australian back on the palaeontology map and describes Australia's fauna before it separated from the supercontinent Gondwana.
Source: ABC Science