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Christian fundamentalist textbooks touting the Loch Ness Monster as proof of Creationism

For the 2012-2013 school year, thousands of Louisiana students will receive state-funded vouchers to attend private schools, many of which hold religious affiliations. One of these schools — Eternity Christian Academy, in Westlake, Louisiana — utilizes the A.C.E. Curriculum Program, a Christian fundamentalist course of study that teaches students to “see life from God’s point…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The Curious Case of the Million Dollar Tyrannosaurus Skeleton That’s Been Seized by Homeland Security

This is one of the strangest arrest warrants we’ve heard about in quite some time: U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel signed a warrant on Tuesday authorizing the Department of Homeland Security to seize a Tyrannosaurus batarr skeleton from an art storage company. The seizure is part of an effort to get the bones back to…

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Jurassic Park 4 will be penned by the Rise of the Planet of the Apes scribes

Jurassic Park 4 is actually happening, after years of hints. But will they go with the old idea of weaponized dinosaurs? (We hope so). Deadline is reporting that Rise of the Planet of the Apes writers Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver are locked in for Jurassic Park 4. No word on the plot yet —…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Age your booze for 75 million years in this Velociraptor claw flask

Perfect for hiding your whisky on a paleontology dig or if you just like reciting lines from Jurassic Park while tailgating, this porcelain flask is shaped like a single Velociraptor claw. Just remember to cork it before pretending to slice your friends’ bellies open, or risk spilling booze instead of blood. This flask is available…

io9 Lauren Davis

Concept Art Writing Prompt: Space Dinosaurs!

For this week’s writing prompt, we’re going simple: Space Dinosaurs. That’s dinosaurs from space, dinosaurs in space, or dinosaurs with space-faring dreams. Get your fingers typing and come up with your best flash fiction tale of space dinosaurs. We’ve had space dinosaurs on the brain for the last few months. When researchers weren’t proposing the…

io9 Lauren Davis

What Color Were Tomatoes Before All the Dinosaurs Died?

New research published in Nature suggests that the very same meteor that crashed into Earth 60 – 70 million years ago—the one responsible for wiping out all the dinosaurs—may also be responsible for the red color of today’s tomatoes. Parsing Nature’s tomato genome analysis, PhysOrg reports that about the same time as the meteorite crash…

Space & Spaceflight Molly Oswaks

In the 1920s, Stegosaurus had the ability to fly like a hang glider

In the August 15, 1920 edition of the Ogden, Utah’s Standard-Examiner, writer W.H. Ballou penned a paleontological assessment of the stegosaurus that had almost diddly to do with the established fossil record. Taking cues from the bird-like hips of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’s Stegosaurus skeleton — and possibly the flying, plated dinosaurs…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The eleven Doctors, drawn as dinosaurs

The Doctor may resemble Earth’s dominent species (or rather, we resemble the Doctor), but if the Time Lord was traveling in prehistoric times, it would make more sense to blend with the dinosaurs. Dressed in the Doctor’s finest fashions, these dinos turned out quite dapper. There’s a method to Peter Foglesong’s madness in pairing certain…

io9 Lauren Davis

In the webcomic Dawn of Time, a time traveler and a barbarian team up in the age of dinosaurs

If paleontologists had access to time machines, they could solve innumerable mysteries about the terrible lizards who once walked the Earth. But if the past is anything like Michael Stearns’ webcomic Dawn of Time, the age of dinosaurs may not be quite what they expected. Last I checked, few scientific theories included a bikini-clad barbarian…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

In the 1980s, Jurassic Park was built by prisoners in Cuba

Years before the phrase “clever girl” even entered the pop cultural lexicon, the Cuban government conscripted inmates to build over 200 weirdo concrete dinosaur sculptures at the Baconao Park outside of Santiago de Cuba. On Valle de la Prehistoria’s 11-hectare terrain, entire geological time periods compete for space. Drunk-looking ankylosauruses share the field with a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

This article about chickens is one of the most interesting things you’ll read this week

That’s right. I said it. Chickens. I know, I was skeptical at first, too; but earlier this morning, I sat down to glance at this longread by Smithsonian Magazine’s Jerry Adler and Andrew Lawler and I’ll be damned if I didn’t read it straight through. The piece — entitled “How the Chicken Conquered the World”…

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Everything you need to know about the scientific controversy that could change Triceratops forever

If you cried over the sick Triceratops in Jurassic Park, or just loved this horned dinosaur as a kid, there’s one scientific controversy you need to understand right now — it may wind up demonstrating that Triceratops isn’t who we thought it was. Recently unearthed evidence has sparked a new debate over the identity of…

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The Brontosaurus model from the original King Kong looks cooler today than it did 80 years ago

Over on Dinosaur Tracking, Brian Switek has posted this most excellent photograph of the robo-zombified head of the Brontosaurus model from the original, 1933 King Kong. The mock-up now resides at The Dinosaur Museum in Blanding, Utah. Call us crazy, but we think this model looks even cooler in its decomposed state than it did…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Nebraska man legally changes name to Tyrannosaurus Rex, is instantly cooler

He used to go by Tyler Gold, but a 23-year-old Nebraska man shall henceforth be known by his official title of Tyrannosaurs Rex Joseph Gold. According to Nebraska’s York News-Times: Gold appeared in York County District Court Monday morning, before Judge Alan Gless who heard the unusual request. In Gold’s official filing with the court,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

No, Fox News, dinosaurs did not fart their way to extinction

Did dinosaur flatulence on the part of sauropods like Apatosaurus warm the Earth? Possibly. At least, that’s the main takeaway from a paper published in the latest issue of Current Biology. https://gizmodo.com/dinosaur-farts-caused-jurassic-global-warming-5908144 But did these dinosaurs “gas themselves to extinction,” as this article from Fox News reports? Let’s put it this way: if they did,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Two-year-old Abandons Parents, Sibling to be Devoured by T. Rex

This is the most adorable thing you’ll see today. Back in 2009, YouTuber tfoust1012 took their son to the Heard Natural History Museum’s animatronic dinosaur exhibit. Apparently Zack was a huge fan of dinosaurs, he’d just never seen one in person, or so lifelike. His reaction is absolutely brilliant. On second thought, maybe the title…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Dinosaur Farts Caused Jurassic Global Warming

A lot of dinosaurs were big eating machines. Now, scientists have calculated how much gas they would have expelled as a result of their digestion—and the quantities they produced probably meant that they warmed their own climate through letting rip. Scientists from Liverpool John Moore’s University in the UK have calculated the methane output of…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This gruesome 1889 biology book outlined the many ways animals will kill us

In J.W. Buel’s 1889 book Sea and Land, the author laid out delightfully quaint illustrations of the Earth’s flora and fauna. Many of these pictures detailed the myriad hilarious ways the animal kingdom eats humans, with creatures like the Japanese spider crab receiving a homicidal bad rap. Here’s a selection of doom and gloom from…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Some dinosaurs may have been in trouble even without the asteroid

Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid six miles in diameter cannoned into Earth. The collision triggered the catastrophic downfall of a vast and thriving dinosaurian ecosystem, ultimately ending with their extinction. Only that’s not what happened. Not at all exactly. (Cue Sam Neill’s voice.) Despite decades of investigation, much remains unanswered about the true nature…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Stegobeetle is back, and he’s bigger and badder than ever

You remember stegobeetle, don’t you? Sure you do. Stegobeetle was the mean, green late-Jurassic-machine with a Volkswagon beetle for a body. https://gizmodo.com/bask-in-the-metallic-magnificence-of-stego-beetle-5896872 Well, apparently turning old VW bugs into stegosaurus torsos is something of a time-honored tradition. Featured up top is a sculpture — called Stegowagenvolkssaurus — which stands in North Kentucky University’s W. Frank…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Christian fundamentalist textbooks touting the Loch Ness Monster as proof of Creationism

The Curious Case of the Million Dollar Tyrannosaurus Skeleton That’s Been Seized by Homeland Security

Jurassic Park 4 will be penned by the Rise of the Planet of the Apes scribes

Age your booze for 75 million years in this Velociraptor claw flask

Concept Art Writing Prompt: Space Dinosaurs!

What Color Were Tomatoes Before All the Dinosaurs Died?

In the 1920s, Stegosaurus had the ability to fly like a hang glider

The eleven Doctors, drawn as dinosaurs

In the webcomic Dawn of Time, a time traveler and a barbarian team up in the age of dinosaurs

In the 1980s, Jurassic Park was built by prisoners in Cuba

This article about chickens is one of the most interesting things you’ll read this week

Everything you need to know about the scientific controversy that could change Triceratops forever

The Brontosaurus model from the original King Kong looks cooler today than it did 80 years ago

Nebraska man legally changes name to Tyrannosaurus Rex, is instantly cooler

No, Fox News, dinosaurs did not fart their way to extinction

Two-year-old Abandons Parents, Sibling to be Devoured by T. Rex

Dinosaur Farts Caused Jurassic Global Warming

This gruesome 1889 biology book outlined the many ways animals will kill us

Some dinosaurs may have been in trouble even without the asteroid

Stegobeetle is back, and he’s bigger and badder than ever

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