University of Flensburg, Germany
The long necks of the largest dinosaurs that ever lived might have been raised high after all, a new study now suggests. The sauropod dinosaurs, which included titans such as Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, and Apatosaurus (once known as Brontosaurus), are well-known for the very long necks they usually sported. The lengthy neck extended the animal's reach for grabbing food.
Source: LiveScience

Yale University, United States
Paleontologists have discovered a new species of dinosaur with a softball-sized lump of solid bone on top of its skull, according to a paper published in the April issue of the journal Cretaceous Research.
Source: ScienceDaily

Carnegie Museum, Pittburgh, Illinois
The skull of a juvenile sauropod dinosaur, rediscovered in the collections of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History, illustrates that some sauropod species went through drastic changes in skull shape during normal growth.
Source: Science Daily

Henan Province, China
One the most agile dinosaurs so far discovered has been unearthed in China.The tiny dinosaur, dubbed a "roadrunner" by the scientists who found it, is also one of the smallest dinosaurs known. Measuring just half a metre long, the fleet-footed theropod named Xixianykus zhangi was likely to have used a huge claw to dig for termites and ants. It then used its speed to efficiently move between ant mounds and avoid the attentions of larger predators. Details of the discovery are published in the journal Zootaxa.
Source: BBC News

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
One hundred million years ago, relatives of Tyrannosaurus rex roamed Australia. So say palaeontologists who found a pubic bone in Victoria, Australia, that they believe once belonged to a member of the tyrannosauroid family. It's the first piece of evidence showing that T. rex's ancestors once lived in the southern hemisphere. Image: Gabriel Lio
Source: New Scientist

Utah, United States
Researchers have discovered a nearly complete fossil of a dinosaur which appears to have been caught in a collapsing sand dune.The Seitaad ruessi fossil, described in the journal PLoS One, is a relative of the long-necked sauropods that were once Earth's biggest animals. S. ruessi, found in what is now Utah, could have walked on all four legs, or risen up to walk on just two.
Source: BBC News

Northeast China
Like a zombie clawing its way out of the grave, a new dinosaur species was discovered when scientists spotted a hand bone protruding from a cliff in the Gobi desert of Inner Mongolia, paleontologists have announced.Called Linheraptor exquisitus, the new dinosaur is a raptor, a type of two-legged meat-eater, that lived during the late Cretaceous period in what is now northeastern China.
Source: National Geographic

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An international panel of experts has strongly endorsed evidence that a space impact was behind the mass extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs.They reached the consensus after conducting the most wide-ranging analysis yet of the evidence. Writing in Science journal, they rule out alternative theories such as large-scale volcanism.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8550504.

India
Scientists say they have identified the fossilised remains of a snake that dined on dinosaur eggs.The 67-million-year-old skeleton was found in a dinosaur nest. The study, published in the journal Plos Biology, is said to show the first direct evidence of feeding behaviour in a fossilised primitive snake. This 3.5m fossil snake is believed to have fed on the hatchlings of sauropods, as it was found wrapped around a baby titanosaur.
Source: BBC News

Zhucheng City, China
Scientists in China say they have discovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, all facing the same way.The footprints - thought to belong to at least six dinosaur types - were found in eastern Shandong province, state news agency Xinhua reports.
Source: BBC News

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

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

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

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

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

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