For teetotaling tyrannosaurs everywhere

Mr. Tearanosaurus

If you enjoy tea made from loose tea leaves, that doesn’t mean you are stuck using a boring teaball. You can steep you tea in style, geek-style, with the Tea Rex Dinosaur Shaped Tea Infuser. This tyrannosaurus rex shaped tea infuser stands about 2.5 inches tall and is made of food-safe silicone, so you don’t have to worry about flavor contamination or anything like that. Combine it with the Mr. Tea Mug for more tea pun fun.

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Sit, stay, chomp!

Boomer Is The Adorable Baby Robot Dinosaur You Wish You Had

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The adorable Tyrannosaurus Rex was created by toy inventor Never Ben and his team, and though Boomer is just a prototype, he can already sit and speak on command, and react to "food" by chomping down.
Boomer also expresses some basic emotions, He is generally pretty friendly, but you probably shouldn't pull on his tail because it makes him mad.
Watch the video above to see all Boomer's reactions and functions. It's pretty impressive, and we are seriously hoping Boomer will be in stores by next Christmas.

HuffPost article here

Missing Dinosaur is Missing Diner

See if you can figure this one out, dino sleuths.

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Missing Diner post

'Drunken idiots' return missing mini-golf dinosaur

A stolen baby dinosaur model has been returned anonymously to a shopping centre with a note saying the thieves were "drunken idiots".

The velociraptor, part of a mini golf game at the Oracle in Reading, called himself Nigel in the note.

"Having seen the world, I am now ready to return to my dinosaur brethren," he continued.

He sparked a nationwide search in newspapers, and the Twitter hashtag #lostdinosaur was used 58,000 times.

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Fossilized feathers

A new paper published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology describes 30 Jurassic creatures – five salamanders, one anuran, two lizards, 13 pterosaurs, five dinosaurs, and four mammals – of the so-called Daohugou Biota, a fossil assemblage named after a village near one of the major localities in Inner Mongolia, China.

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Them bones, them bones, them dry bones...

Watch as Smithsonian officials un-crate dinosaur bones for new 'Nation's T. Rex' exhibit in DC

A nearly complete Tyrannosaurus Rex arrived in Washington this week for its new home at the Smithsonian dinosaur hall.
It is being dubbed the "Nation’s T. Rex," and a grand ceremony was held to welcome the old dinosaur to its new home in D.C.
Kathy and Tom Wankel first discovered a three-inch protrusion of the bone in 1988, leading to the dinosaur discovery.
See which bone was the first to be un-crated by officials as the nation’s T. Rex arrived in Washington.

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Space-age dinosaurs? Astrosaurs? What?

This 67-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Is Headed to Space

Ground Control to Major Sue...
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