Dinosaur News: Weekly Dino Dispatch
Welcome to the Dino Dispatch: Drumheller’s Save the World’s Largest Dinosaur petition leads global fossil news—Megalodon teeth, new dinos!
This is Dinosaur News: the Dino Dispatch, You Dino News Digest, a blast of the planet’s hottest paleontological scoops, dished out with thingstodoindrumheller.ca grit. Topping the list is our fight to save Tyra, the world’s largest dinosaur, followed by wild finds—Megalodon teeth in Saint John, South African footprints, a 50-million-year-old N.W.T. log, a claw-crazy Mongolian dino, a Colorado swamp beast, and a Patagonian giant. It’s AJ’s turf, where fun.thingstodoindrumheller.ca vibes collide with global fossil fever—snag a Munchie Machine Dino Burger (5 kilometers out, Badlands fuel) and dive into the week’s dino delirium. We’re here to save Tyra and shake the internet—let’s roar!
Drumheller’s Rally: Save the World’s Largest Dinosaur
She’s a 25-meter T. Rex ruling Drumheller’s skyline—Tyra, the world’s largest dinosaur statue, has been the Badlands’ queen since 2000, drawing millions for a jaw-climb or a selfie by her toothy grin. From Highway 838 to downtown’s dino trail, she’s the pulse of fun, linking every hoodoo hike to Alberta’s 75-million-year fossil legacy. But Tyra’s reign’s at risk: the Drumheller & District Chamber of Commerce says her visitor center lease ends in 2029, with no discussion or relocation plan, her steel frame could fade like a forgotten fossil.
Our petition, *Save the World’s Largest Dinosaur* at change.org/worldslargestdinosaur, is charging toward 25 thousand of signatures, as this is written. Its a Badlands vow to bolster her structure and keep her roaring. “Tyra’s Canada’s fossil heart,” I say, dusting off my boots near the Tyrrell.
sign at *thingstodoindrumheller.ca* to save her!” This is Drumheller’s stand Tyra’s too epic to lose.
Megalodon Fever in Saint John
Out in New Brunswick, Saint John’s auction houses are buzzing—Megalodon teeth, 15-centimeter relics from an 18-meter shark that owned Miocene seas 23 to 3.6 million years ago. These jagged treasures ignite hype, pulling collectors to bid on jaws that could crush a car.
Auctioneer Jordan Leblanc grins: “One tooth’s a time warp—bigger bite than any Albertosaurus.”
South African Footprints Map Dino Journeys
In South Africa’s Karoo Basin, Western University’s Guy Plint uncovered 140-million-year-old tracks—likely *Massospondylus*, a 5-meter Early Jurassic herbivore. Hidden under sediment and cracked open by tectonic twists, these prints suggest treks across a splitting Pangea. Plint told students: “It’s a dino road trip—like *Prosaurolophus* herds in Drumheller’s swamps.”
N.W.T.’s Log: A 50-Million-Year Forest
Canada’s Northwest Territories dropped a gem—a 50-million-year-old log, 2 meters long, dug from an Eocene diamond mine. No *Ankylosaurus* here, but this timber paints a lush world after Drumheller’s dinos vanished. “Tundra now, forest then,” a miner said.
Mongolia’s Two-Clawed Terror: Duonychus
Mongolia’s Gobi Desert unveiled *Duonychus tsogtbaatari*, a 3-meter Therizinosaur with 30-centimeter, two-fingered claws like nightmare scissors. Found in the 90-million-year-old Bayanshiree Formation, this 260-kilogram plant-eater baffled Hokkaido’s Yoshitsugu Kobayashi: “Weirdest dino I’ve seen.”
Colorado’s Swamp Dweller Creeps In
Colorado’s Lance Formation birthed a 2-meter crocodyliform—a “swamp dweller” that prowled with *T. rex* 66 million years ago. Named by Denver Museum scientists, it thrived in wetlands like Drumheller’s Dinosaur Provincial Park, home to *Atrociraptor*.
Patagonia’s Titan: Chadititan Emerges
Northern Patagonia’s 100-million-year-old lagoons spilled *Chadititan calvoi*, a 15-meter sauropod among hundreds of fossils. National Geographic calls it a leaner *Argentinosaurus*, its neck stretching like a crane. Drumheller’s
The Dino News Vibe
From Tyra’s fight—sign *Save the World’s Largest Dinosaur* at change.org/worldslargestdinosaur—to Patagonia’s titans, these stories fuel our fossil obsession. Megalodon’s chomp, *Duonychus*’s claws, a swamp croc’s grin—they all link to Drumheller’s Tyrrell, where *Stegoceras* and *Gorgosaurus* rule.
Keep the past alive. Dino fever’s global, & it lives in Drumheller!
That’s the Dino Dispatch!
