Dinosaur of the day Polacanthus, an ankylosaur that was described in the 1800s, but no one is sure who named it.

In dinosaur news this week:

• After decades of being classified as Massospondylus, “grey skull” has a new name, Ngwevu intloko
• Mission Jurassic in North Wyoming could hold over 100 dinosaurs in one square mile
• A group of juvenile hadrosaurs was found at Pipestone Creek, near the Philip J. Currie Museum
• The Scottish government is working on better protecting the fossils on the Isle of Skye in Scotland
• In India, a group of scientists are pushing for a bill that will designate and safeguard fossil sites
• In Romania, new dinosaur nests have been found, most likely from a hadrosaur like Telmatosaurus
• The Natural History Museum in London has digitized their holotype of Mantellisaurus
• The Central Museum of Mongolian Dinosaurs recently opened a new exhibition hall, themed Paleozoic Era
• Dinosaur Park in Laurel, Maryland has an open house this summer, on September 7
• Trix the T.rex is back in Leiden, at the updated Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands
• A new project called “On the Trail of Dinosaurs,” will bring the Dinosaur Tracks from the Australian Dampier Peninsula to life
• children visiting the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences regularly try to help the injured sauropod, giving it hugs and Band-Aids.
• South Dakota rancher Kenny Brown recently retired and bequeathed his 1,330 acre ranch to the School of Mines
• PLOS One blog has a list of events for National Fossil Day in the US (October 16)
• On August 29, the US Postal Service is issuing four new T. rex stamps, with a holographs
• Nickelodeon has a new animated series coming out September 14, LEGO Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nubar

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