Dinosaurs were many herpers' first love, so we're always up for some dino-news.

In Alberta, a new species of pterosaur was identified by its teeth. From CTV News:

"For a long time we thought it was a little dinosaur jaw and that led us down the wrong path," she said.

"We kept coming back saying, ‘What is this thing?' We thought it might be a fish, a reptile -- anything that had teeth at that time."

Arbour made a breakthrough when she compared the bone against a known Chinese species of pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived during the Cretaceous period that often grew to the size of a small airplane.

"The teeth of our fossil were small and set close together," Arbour said. "They reminded me of piranha teeth, designed for pecking away at meat."

Who doesn't love a beautiful Italian limestone countertop? Add a fossilized crocodilian and I am a happy gal. From National Geographic:

Scientists performed only a cursory examination of the fossils—enough to determine that they belonged to an ancient crocodile—before the slabs were transferred to two museums in Italy.

The fossils sat unstudied until 2009, when scientists decided to examine them again in more detail.

Analysis of the embedded bones revealed a skull and a few vertebrae that belonged to a previously unknown species of 165-million-year-old prehistoric reptile now named Neptunidraco ammoniticus.

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When I went to Vegas to speak there were only two touristy things I wanted to do. Watch the water show at Bellagio and hit the Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay. I fell in love with the water show during my honeymoon (to the point of insanity with my new husband) and we missed the reef when we were out there.

Both items checked off, I was a happy girl. But what is even cooler is we got a behind the scenes tour to boot! When Desiree Wong and I were preparing to go in the morning she said the magic words "I think they have a Komodo," thus launching me off into a new form of Tourette's where the only word from my mouth was "Komodo." It probably didn't help that our hotel coffee shop at the bottom of the stairs was closed and I had to stand in a gawd awful long line at the Starbucks, causing me to double up on our order. Thankfully I grabbed breakfast for us with the coffee and we were set. Desiree was just happy the coffee fairy had arrived.

On the tram ride over, I had flashbacks to my favorite Discovery show, “Dirty Jobs,” where Mike Rowe was trapped in the traps banging his head repeatedly while cleaning. Yep, I was gonna see what Mike cleaned.