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Tyrannosaurus rex was much, much bigger than we thought

An international team of researchers has used three-dimensional laser scans to determine that Tyrannosaurus rex were likely 30% more massive that we once thought — and a whole lot hungrier. Be honest, now…how many of you woke up this morning thinking you’d hear the words “three-dimensional laser” and “Tyrannosaurus rex” used in the same sentence?…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Most Well-Preserved Dinosaur Skeleton Ever Found in Europe

Researchers say this specimen is about as close to perfect as fossils come. Unveiled yesterday by scientists from the Bavarian paleontological and ecological collections (BSPF) in Munich, Germany, the unnamed dinosaur is believed to be 98% complete, and even includes bits of preserved skin. The specimen is thought to belong to a suborder of dinosaurs…

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In the pulpy future world of Bunraku, no guns are allowed, but Ron Perlman with dreads is!

Check out five clips from the bizarre movie Bunraku, which looks like it was ripped from the womb of Frank Miller. Plus, the absolutely gorgeous scifi blaxploitation trailer Soul Man and a super-adorable alien janitor! All in this week’s Cult Movie Worship. Bunraku No, Bunraku is not another Frank Miller flick. Quite the contrary —…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Revealed: Two Major New Characters Who Are Going to Shake Up Terra Nova

So you think you know what’s going on in the new dinosaur drama Terra Nova? Think again. Some casting calls have come down the pike for a couple of major characters who are going to shake up the prehistoric world. Major spoilers ahead… First off, it looks like we’re not going to have to wait…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Terra Nova Episode One: Humanity is doomed!

The last hope for the future of the human race depends on a handful of settlers traveling back into the distant past and building a brand new world. And from what we’ve seen so far in Steven Spielberg’s Terra Nova, the human race is doomed. Seriously. We keep hearing that only the best and brightest…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Most Ludicrous Dinosaur TV Shows of All Time

Tonight, Steven Spielberg takes us back to the land of dinosaurs. How crazy will Terra Nova be? We’ll find out over the next few weeks. But it can’t possibly go as bonkers as some of television’s other dinosaur shows. Here are our picks for the most demented dinosaur-centric TV shows in history. Top image: Dinosaucers:…

Television Natalie Baaklini

Carnotaurus had the most ridiculously weak dinosaur arms ever

The image of the hulking T. rex and its comically undersized arms is deeply ingrained in pop culture, but it isn’t really fair. They were muscular little appendages well-suited to their evolutionary purpose. The wimpy-armed Carnotaurus is another story entirely. As you can see in the skeleton up top, Carnotaurus had arms that even T.…

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Recently discovered species of raptor validates the fears of anyone who ever watched Jurassic Park

One of the most recognizable characteristics of raptor dinosaurs — the clever, pack-hunting carnivores immortalized in the Jurassic Park movie series — is the enormous, scythe-like talon located on the second digit of each of their feet. But the true function of this intimidating anatomical feature has puzzled paleontologists for years. Now, by examining the…

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Your First Look at Terra Nova‘s Deadly “Slasher” Dinosaurs

There’s just one week left before Steven Spielberg’s Terra Nova has to pony up and give us some freaking dinosaur action. And finally, the trailers are showing us more than just the same two dinosaur shots we’ve been seeing over and over. Check out the above trailer, which aired during the Emmy Awards last night…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Dinosaur Feathers Discovered in Canadian Amber

Today a group of paleontologists announced the results of an extensive study of several well-preserved dinosaur feathers encased in amber. Their work, which included samples from many stages in the evolution of feathers, bolstered the findings of other scientists who’ve suggested that dinosaurs (winged and otherwise) had multicolored and transparent feathers of the sort you…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Strongest Pro-Genetic Engineering Argument Yet

The creature depicted here is both between and beyond classifications. Every bit as cunning as a megashark, even deadlier than a crocosaurus. It is terrifying, it is awe-inspiring. It is $24.99 at Party City. The Doggie Raptor. The Doggie Triceratops. The Doggie Stegosaurus. The Doggie Shark. The Doggie… Tortoise? It’s the most adorable re-imagining of…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The most insane dinosaur fights you’ve ever seen

Designer and dinosaur enthusiast David Orr recently griped on his blog Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs about the clichéd dino-on-dino fights you see in pop culture – always with the super-giant T Rex vs. brontosaurus. Or, as Orr’s colleague Marc Vincent put it, you’ll see “freakishly large coelurosaurs Tarbosaurus and Therizinosaurus smack each other…

io9 Annalee Newitz

This is what the patent for a dinosaur suit looks like

ON-ART Corp., Tokyo (“a top artistic structure airbrush paint production company in Japan”) have just been granted their US patent (7,997,991 B2) for a “Costume suit of large size animal.” “The costume suit is made of special clothing or material, covers a whole body of the person inside, and is used to transform into an…

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Gorgeous Jurassic Park Mondo poster spared no expense!

Check out the gorgeous Jurassic Park print released by Alamo Drafthouse & Mondo celebrating the Blu-ray release of everyone’s favorite dinosaur movie. But wait — this is only the first of many glorious Jurassic Park posters. Here’s the full image by artist Aaron Horkey. The next poster will be released the same time the Blu-ray…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Alan Grant’s velociraptor speech from Jurassic Park, animated with toy dinosaurs

Tal Moskovich has taken Sam Neill’s famous velociraptor monologue from Jurassic Park and turned it into a nifty animated short using some unusually sinister toy dinosaurs. Note: the raptors weren’t really that big. Hat tip to Henry!

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

This Is Why You Don’t Mess With Raptors

If “Jurassic Park” taught me anything, it’s that Velociraptors are terrifyingly awesome. So hearing Sam Neil give that classic speech brings me right back to that fascination. And the terror. Don’t forget the terror. [This Is Colossal]

Tech News Kwame Opam

Terra Nova featurette sends you back in time to play with Steven Spielberg’s dinosaurs

Check out this behind the scenes video from Steven Spielberg’s time-traveling adventure show Terra Nova, which shows off how the crew basically constructed the entire Jurassic Park-channeling camp bit by bit. It also inclues a few new glimpses of our horribly destroyed future world!

io9 Meredith Woerner

A Batman Tyrannosaurus Rex stalks the streets of Pittsburgh

Given that all things Dark Knight Rises have momentarily taken over the Pittsburgh news cycle, it should be unsurprising that pranksters at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh (near the film’s shooting) bestowed the cowl upon their campus’ Tyrannosaurus Rex statue. And here I thought that dinosaur trophy in the Batcave was getting a totally unexpected…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

If you live in Vancouver, you can hire a dinosaur manservant

Good news, wealthy psychotic Canadians! Some down-and-out soul is offering to inhabit one of your many properties in exchange for a year of saurian servitude! 365 days of dinosaur degradation! What a bargain! Peep this Craigslist listing: Do you own more than one property? Do you have so many rental homes with no mortgage payments,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Why are paleontologists comparing this dinosaur fossil to Cinderella?

Everyone knows that the footprints of prehistoric creatures are rare, and that their fossilized remains are even rarer. But finding footprints and fossils together is almost never heard of, which is what has paleontologists so worked up about the fossilized Protoceratops pictured here. Outlined by a white box is a footprint that paleontologists say closely…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Tyrannosaurus rex was much, much bigger than we thought

The Most Well-Preserved Dinosaur Skeleton Ever Found in Europe

In the pulpy future world of Bunraku, no guns are allowed, but Ron Perlman with dreads is!

Revealed: Two Major New Characters Who Are Going to Shake Up Terra Nova

Terra Nova Episode One: Humanity is doomed!

Most Ludicrous Dinosaur TV Shows of All Time

Carnotaurus had the most ridiculously weak dinosaur arms ever

Recently discovered species of raptor validates the fears of anyone who ever watched Jurassic Park

Your First Look at Terra Nova‘s Deadly “Slasher” Dinosaurs

Dinosaur Feathers Discovered in Canadian Amber

The Strongest Pro-Genetic Engineering Argument Yet

The most insane dinosaur fights you’ve ever seen

This is what the patent for a dinosaur suit looks like

Gorgeous Jurassic Park Mondo poster spared no expense!

Alan Grant’s velociraptor speech from Jurassic Park, animated with toy dinosaurs

This Is Why You Don’t Mess With Raptors

Terra Nova featurette sends you back in time to play with Steven Spielberg’s dinosaurs

A Batman Tyrannosaurus Rex stalks the streets of Pittsburgh

If you live in Vancouver, you can hire a dinosaur manservant

Why are paleontologists comparing this dinosaur fossil to Cinderella?

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