Podcasts about Apatosaurus

Archaeocursor may have been named after an April Fool's Joke, but it was a real dinosaur.For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Earl Sinclair, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Earl Sinclair-Episode-533/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaurs of the day: Earl Sinclair, Godzilla, & Cryptids.In dinosaur news this week:There is a Shady dinosaur, and it's a TriceratopsA Stegosaurus just sold for over 13 million dollars using shares as a sort of "investment"An Apatosaurus sold in Europe for about 6 million EurosArchaeocursor asiaticus is the oldest known ornithischian from AsiaA 47 gram (1.7 ounce) enantiornithine bird was described with "robust teeth" and feather tracesThe "short pubis" enantiornithean bird, Novavis pubisculata, was named from the Early Cretaceous of ChinaNavaornis hestiae was named after the Greek goddess Hestia, the oldest and youngest Olympian (Navaornis is an old bird with a modern looking skull)Baminornis zhenghensis may be the first bird to ever evolve a pygostyle (to support tail feathers)A new Archaeopteryx specimen was described (making it the 14th of all time) This episode is brought to you by the Colorado Northwestern Community College. Join them for two weeks digging up dinosaur bones from the Jurassic Period in Northwest Colorado this summer. For details go to CNCC.edu/dinodigSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

When you imagine prehistoric life, it's likely that the first thing that comes to mind are dinosaurs: long-necked Apatosauruses, flying Pterosaurs, big toothy Tyrannosaurs. But what don't get as much attention are the prehistoric plants that lived alongside them.Plants, shrubs, and trees played a key part in the food chains of dinosaurs, and many dinosaurs evolved to match the plant life available to them. The Apatosaurus' long neck, for example, developed to reach leaves high up in prehistoric trees.Joining Host Flora Lichtman to defend the importance of prehistoric plants is Riley Black, author of the new book When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals and Evolution's Greatest Romance. She's based in Salt Lake City, Utah.Read an excerpt from When the Earth Was Green at sciencefriday.com.Transcripts for each segment will be available after the show airs on sciencefriday.com. Subscribe to this podcast. Plus, to stay updated on all things science, sign up for Science Friday's newsletters.

La durée de vie des dinosaures, ces créatures fascinantes ayant dominé la Terre pendant des millions d'années, varie considérablement en fonction des espèces. Contrairement à l'idée populaire selon laquelle les dinosaures vivaient tous des centaines d'années, leur espérance de vie était influencée par leur taille, leur mode de vie et leur environnement. Durée de vie des dinosaures : une question de tailleLes petits dinosaures, comme les Compsognathus ou les Velociraptors, vivaient généralement moins longtemps, leur durée de vie étant comparable à celle des mammifères de taille similaire. Ils atteignaient rapidement leur maturité sexuelle pour compenser un taux de mortalité plus élevé, et leur espérance de vie moyenne se situait autour de 10 à 20 ans. En revanche, les dinosaures géants comme les sauropodes (Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus) ou les théropodes de grande taille (Tyrannosaurus rex) avaient une espérance de vie bien plus longue, atteignant parfois 70 à 100 ans. Leur grande taille et leur lente croissance leur conféraient une protection contre les prédateurs, ce qui augmentait leur longévité. Facteurs influençant leur longévitéLa croissance des dinosaures est un facteur clé pour comprendre leur durée de vie. Les paléontologues analysent leurs os fossilisés, en particulier leurs anneaux de croissance, comparables aux cernes des arbres. Ces anneaux permettent d'estimer leur âge et leur rythme de croissance. Par exemple, le célèbre T. rex atteignait sa taille adulte en 20 ans mais pouvait vivre jusqu'à environ 30 ans. Le métabolisme des dinosaures joue également un rôle. Bien que leur métabolisme exact reste débattu, il est probable qu'ils avaient une physiologie intermédiaire entre celle des reptiles modernes et des oiseaux. Les dinosaures géants, avec un métabolisme plus lent, vivaient plus longtemps que les plus petits, au métabolisme rapide. Comparaison avec les espèces modernesLes dinosaures modernes, les oiseaux, ont une durée de vie très variable. Les petits passereaux vivent généralement quelques années, tandis que les grands oiseaux comme les perroquets peuvent atteindre 80 ans. Cela reflète en partie la diversité des dinosaures disparus. En somme, la durée de vie des dinosaures était extrêmement diverse, allant de quelques décennies pour les petits carnivores à près d'un siècle pour les géants herbivores. Ces durées reflètent l'adaptation de chaque espèce à son environnement, témoignant de la diversité incroyable de ces anciens habitants de la Terre. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Vulcain, un dinosaurio de grandes proporciones, va a ser subastado el próximo 16 de noviembre en Francia. Es un Apatosaurus y mide 20 metros de largo y 6 metros de altura. Al contrario de los Triceratops o de los Tyrannosaurus rex (T-Rex), Vulcain era un herbívoro tranquilo que vivió hace aproximadamente 150 millones de años en  Wyoming. Antes de ser subastado, se puede admirar en un emblemático lugar, el Castillo de Dampierre, al sur de París. Este gigantesco Apatosaurus, característico por su largo cuello y su cabeza pequeña, se le ha puesto el nombre de Vulcain y proviene del estado de Wyoming, en los Estados Unidos; fue descubierto en el 2018 pero se necesitaron tres años para extraer sus 306 huesos fosilizados.Además de sus largas proporciones, 20 metros de largo y 6 metros de altura si se toma en cuenta la altura del cuello, Vulcain posee más del 80 % de sus huesos originales. Los huesos faltantes fueron reemplazados por huesos en resina. Otra particularidad, su cabeza relativamente intacta, al 55 por ciento.Domaine de DampierreActualmente Vulcain puede ser admirado por el público y el lugar para exponer este dinosaurio gigante es espectacular, el Domaine de Dampierre en Yvelines, a 40 kilómetros al sur de París, en el valle de Chevreuse.El Castillo de Dampierre, imponente y en pleno proceso de restauración, ha sido utilizado para numerosas películas y en él se han hospedado históricos mandatarios, desde Louis 14 hasta el rey emérito de España Juan Carlos.  Y ahora hospeda a este gigantesco Apatosaurus.El próximo 16 de noviembre, Vulcain será subastado por dos casas francesas de subastas: Collin du Bocage y Barbarossa.Se trata del dinosaurio de mayores proporciones que será subastado, con un valor estimado entre 2 y 5 millones de euros.Reportaje completo escuchar aquí:Leer tambiénLos gigantes del viñedo: los dinosaurios de la CharenteLeer también¡Me compré dos dinosaurios!Un mercado en plena expansiónEntre las ventas famosas de dinosaurios, se puede mencionar a Big John, un Triceratops vendido en 6 millones de euros en el 2021. Pero el récord lo tiene el T-Rex Stan que alcanzó en el 2020 la cifra de los 32 millones de euros, comprado para el museo de Abu Dhabi (Emiratos Árabes Unidos). Los compradores pueden ser industriales, mecenas, coleccionistas privados apasionados por estos animales del periodo jurásico. Por el momento, todos los dinosaurios provienen de  Wyoming y  Montanta, en los Estados Unidos.Entrevistados: Eric Mickeler, experto en dinosaurios y Collin du Bocage, uno de los dos comisarios encargados de la subasta del dinosaurio Vulcain.   

Join Digger Rex as he excavates the Hanksville-Burpee Dinosaur Quarry near Hanksville, Utah, a small town rich in history and surrounded by stunning landscapes. This quarry is a paleontologist's dream, known for remarkable finds like the colossal Apatosaurus and Diplodocus!

The RSA begins their first movie series of Season 3! They'll only be doing 5 of the 13 movies! The RSA gang begins the first of Land Before Time movies! a 1988 animated adventure drama film directed and produced by Don Bluth from a screenplay by Stu Krieger and a story by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss, and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall. The film stars the voices of Gabriel Damon, Candace Hutson, Judith Barsi and Will Ryan with narration provided by Pat Hingle. It is the first film in The Land Before Time franchise. Produced by Amblin Entertainment and Sullivan Bluth Studios, it features dinosaurs living in prehistoric times. The plot features a young brown Apatosaurus named Littlefoot, who ends up alone after his mother is attacked by a villainous Tyrannosaurus rex and dies. Littlefoot flees famine and upheaval to search for the Great Valley, an area spared from devastation, where the adult dinosaurs have moved on to. On his journey, he meets four young companions: Cera, an orange Triceratops, Ducky, a green Saurolophus, Petrie, a brown Pteranodon, and Spike, a green Stegosaurus.[4] The film explores issues of prejudice between the different species and the hardships they endure in their journey as they are guided by the spirit of Littlefoot's mother and forced to deal with a "sharptooth" (Tyrannosaurus rex). The Land Before Time is the only Don Bluth film of the 1980s in which Dom DeLuise did not participate (instead, he starred in Disney's Oliver & Company released that same day), and the only film in The Land Before Time series that is not a musical, as well as the only one to be released theatrically worldwide. It was also the last film that Bluth directed that was distributed by Universal Pictures. The film was released by Universal on November 18, 1988, to generally positive reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing $84.4 million. Its success, along with An American Tail and the 1988 live-action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit led Spielberg to found his animation studio, Amblimation. The first film spawned a franchise with thirteen direct-to-video sequels, a television series, video games and merchandise, none of which had Bluth, Spielberg nor Lucas' involvement (though Amblin Entertainment was involved in the television series like it was for Fievel's American Tails). It is currently Don Bluth's third highest-grossing animated film, only behind Anastasia (1997) and An American Tail (1986).

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Camposaurus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Camposaurus-Episode-466/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Camposaurus, not to be confused with the ornithopod Camptosaurus. Camposaurus was a small coelophysid dinosaur that lived in the Late Triassic in what is now Arizona.In dinosaur news this week:Steve Brusatte shared his experience being the paleontology consultant for Jurassic World: DominionInternationally respected critic and historian of animation Charles Solomon talked about animation and paleontology in film including "From the Big Bang to Tuesday Morning"A panel of scientists discussed colonialism in vertebrae paleontologyThe characteristic dinosaur death pose is only regularly seen in non-avian theropodsA new Triceratops specimen seems to have "rhizoetching" trace fossils from plant roots and/or fungusA femur from an apatosaurine (possibly Apatosaurus) seems to have a new pathology called osteochondritis dissecansWhy Dinosaurs? is premiering in Hollywood This episode is brought to you by Mini Museum. They curate billions of years of science and history into collections that can fit on your shelf! Explore dozens of unique specimens (including dinosaur fossils) at minimuseum.com and use code IKNOWDINO for 10% offSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today we talk about the Apatosaurus, and today we have a webcam. during sauropod month Remember to follow me at Prehistoric_Life_Podcast on instagram and check out the new website PrehistoricLifePodcast.com and on youtube @prehistoric life podcast

Adele is joined by sauropod expert Dr Stephen Poropat to about talk Savannasaurus elliottorum, the species he names in 2016! Recorded after a big day of dinosaur digging, we explore the Cretaceous of Queensland and get the facts on one of Australia's chonkiest titanosaurs. Hear how a dinosaur obsessed kid who brought his Apatosaurus to the nativity became an expert in palaeontology. Plus how to spot the difference between Savannasaurus and Diamantinasaurus, and honouring the memory of palaeontologist Mary Wade.This episode is brought to you by Dinosaur Trips! Explore the world and see the best museums, meet experts and even dig up real dinosaurs. For more info visit dinosaurtrips.com and email zach@dinosaurtrips.com about the Badlands and Beyond Trip.Dinosaur Trips It's been 66 million years. Why wait any longer? Join an upcoming trip!Pals in Palaeo @palsinpalaeoHost: Adele Pentland @palaeodelOnline StoreTranscriptsThe Pals in Palaeo Cover ArtJenny Zhao Design @jennyzdesignCrumpet Club House@crumpetclubhouse The Pals in Palaeo Theme MusicHello Kelly @hellokellymusic Podcast Producer + Editor Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safariPodcast EditorFrançois "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy

Today, Laura, Krysta and Dean go to Africa in search of the legend of the Mokele-Mbembe, a thirty five foot long dinosaur-like cryptid. It is a creature famed to the Bantu in the region for stopping the flow of rivers when it nests at bends in the river. It is reputed to fight and kill hippos, elephants and crocodiles. footprints have been found and the locals see the creature regularly. We discuss the gorilla, which at one point was considered a cryptid and from there go to the Mokele-Mbembe itself. We discuss all the information we discovered about the creature as well as Josh Gates search for the beast, Rodgers and Hmmerstein's Cinderella, how the brontosaurus became the apatosaurus and so, so much more.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4670465/advertisement

Oliver and Tom are back with more YDAW! One that apparently caused a lot of turmoil either before or after this video came out! Find out which! Check out the original video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPvxoGJAqEc&list=PLaCDmykyjVw_B983AQ2iGuZOA3ZLJ8Sry  

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(image source: https://www.activewild.com/brontosaurus) Host Matthew Donald and guest co-host Stephen Curro discuss Brontosaurus, a real dinosaur of a dinosaur that wasn't valid for a while until suddenly it was, kind of like the inverse of Pluto. From the Late Jurassic, this 70-foot diplodocid sauropod was a bit chunkier than Apatosaurus with a slightly thicker neck, but otherwise it was basically the same animal at the same time and place. And yet Dracorex and Stygimoloch are considered young Pachycephalosaurus despite their completely different heads… sometimes paleontology makes zero sense. Want to further support the show? Sign up to our Patreon for exclusive bonus content at Patreon.com/MatthewDonald. Also, you can purchase Matthew Donald's dinosaur book "Megazoic" on Amazon by clicking here, its sequel "Megazoic: The Primeval Power" by clicking here, its third installment "Megazoic: The Hunted Ones" by clicking here, or its final installment "Megazoic: An Era's End" by clicking here, as well as his non-dinosaur-related book "Teslanauts" by clicking here.

Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.  Find the episode webpage at: Episode 30 - Control. In this episode, my terrific guests The Past Time Podcast duo Drs. Matt Borths and Adam Pritchard chat with me about:   The Past Time podcast, producing podcasts, reading the novel, Dr. Elizabeth Jones, DNA, cloning, splicing genes, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jurassic World, gene therapy, eliminating disease, why has no one adapted the river scene?, characterization, emotions and attitudes, the debate between the good and bad products of scientific discovery, what if Ian Malcolm were in Frankenstein, reverse-engineering dinosaurs out of a chicken, mapping the human genome, amphibian DNA, Callovosaurus, cloning unknown animals, Diabloceratops, choosing dinosaurs for your novel, Pteranodon v. Cearradactylus, Dodgson in the Tyrannosaur nest, Grant in the velociraptor nests, dinosaurs wild in the world, taking Bernese pythons seriously, Callovosaurus and much more!   Plus dinosaur news about: The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae Intraspecific facial bite marks in tyrannosaurids provideinsight into sexual maturity and evolution of bird-like intersexual display Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases  Intro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature.  Outro: Latebloomer. The Text: This week's text is Control, spanning from pages 149 - 154.  Synopsis: Wu, Hammond and Arnold begin to feel some anxieties of the consultants actually recommending that the park be closed for safety reasons, and become leery of Malcolm and Gennaro in particular – while our consultants tour through the sauropod paddock, enjoying the view of Triceratops, Apatosaurus and Hadrosaurs. Muldoon, on the other hand, has anxieties of the consultants' actual safety, and preps his Jeep with a rocket launcher just in case – which isn't much of a vouch of confidence for the park's safety is it? At the same time, a large storm coming in jeopardizes the safety of the big supply ship, the Anne B, and since Hammond spared the expense of installing a storm barrier at the docks, this ship must depart early. Oh, and unbelievably, contrary to everything they've been told so far on this tour, Tim spots a rogue velociraptor running amongst the hadrosaurs, and it's so unbelievable everyone scrambles to find an explanation. Discussions surround: Movie adatpations, Control is a Hoax, and the Island Layout. Corrections:   Side effects:  May cause you to hear sudden exclamatory warnings while you're trying to drive around unrelated to what's going on around you.  Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here). Thank you! The Jura-Sick Park-cast is a part of the Spring Chickens banner of amateur intellectual properties including the Spring Chickens funny pages, Tomb of the Undead graphic novel, the Second Lapse graphic novelettes, The Infantry, and the worst of it all, the King St. Capers. You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I'm on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.  Thank you, dearly, for tuning in to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the Jurassic Park podcast where we talk about the novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. Until next time!  #JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton  

This episode is all about another "Le Sauropode" as we would say in French language. This long neck dinosaur was covered in all kinds of osteoderms, somewhat like an Ankylosaurus. At first glance you would think it's just a Jurassic World hybrid, but this is no joke. Learn all about the Ampelosaurus & hear it sing Happy Birthday to a special Dinosaur Ranger!!

Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.  Find the episode webpage at: Episode 18 - Welcome In this episode, my terrific guest Chris McDonald chats with me about:  Florida State Fairs, Jurassic Park the Ride, 1994, The Land Before Time, dinosaurs, Kaiju films, giant monster movies, Gargantucast, Brendan Steere, Horror, The VelociPastor, sci-fi horror, Michael Crichton, the Horror Genre, Carnosaur, Gojira, Godzilla, nuclear horror, meddling with powers you don't understand, hupia, raptor, Jaws, compys, procompsognathus, Stephen King, taboos, Grant misunderstanding lizard bites, Tina Bowman, John Hammond, Dennis Nedry, dangerous herbivores, Guns, Germs and Steel, zoo control mechanisms, dilophosaurus, Harambe, Tyrannosaurus containment, swimming tyrannosaurs, cloning spinosaurs, Alien: Resurrection, and a lot more! Plus dinosaur news about: The Plantigrade Segnosaurians: Sloth Dinosaurs or Bear Dinosaurs?   A new hypothesis of eudromaeosaurian evolution: CT scans assist in testing and constructing morphological characters Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases Intro: Grow Old or Don't.  Outro: Centipede. The Text: This week's text is Welcome, spanning from pages 79 - 80. Sattler, Gennaro, Grant and Malcolm are suddenly faced with an Apatosaurus that Hammond has cloned, and are stupefied by what this means to reality as they know it. Hammond is proud, and he outlines their itinerary as his guests – and leaves them in the care of Ed Regis.  Discussions surround: Dinosaurs, having a God Complex, Hammond's Dream, Notable omissions, and differences between the novel and the film, and a lot more! Side effects:  Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here). Thank you! The Jura-Sick Park-cast is a part of the Spring Chickens banner of amateur intellectual properties including the Spring Chickens funny pages, Tomb of the Undead graphic novel, the Second Lapse graphic novelettes, The Infantry, and the worst of it all, the King St. Capers. You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I'm on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.  Thank you, dearly, for tuning in to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the Jurassic Park podcast where we talk about the novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. Until next time!  #JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

Welcome to Cosmos Science Daily, where journalists from the Cosmos newsroom report on the latest research and discoveries and explain the science behind the headline news. Today's newsroom journalist and Master of Physics graduate, Evrim Yazgin, is unpacking Australia's smallest sauropod. And your host is Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist whose chosen form of transport would be riding an Apatosaurus if she lived in a different epoch.Find the science of everything at the Cosmos Magazine websiteSubscribe to Cosmos Magazine (print) or the Cosmos WeeklyWatch and listen to all our Cosmos BriefingsSpecial 10% discount on Cosmos magazine print subscriptions (1 or 2 year), or 1 year Cosmos Weekly subscriptions for Cosmos Briefing podcast listeners!  Use coupon code COSMOSPOD in our shop.

Show transcript: Hi. If you're hearing this, it means I'm sick or something else has happened that has kept me from making a new episode this week. This was a Patreon bonus episode from mid-August 2019. I think it's a good one. If you're a Patreon subscriber, I'm sorry you don't have a new episode to listen to this time. Hopefully I'll be feeling better soon and we can get back to learning about lots of strange animals. Welcome to the Patreon bonus episode of Strange Animals Podcast for mid-August, 2019! While I was doing research for the paleontology mistakes and frauds episodes, I came across the discovery of what might have been the biggest land animal that ever lived. But while I wanted to include it in one episode or the other, it wasn't clear that it was either a mistake or a fraud. It might in fact have been a real discovery, now lost. In late 1877 or early 1878, a man named Oramel Lucas was digging up dinosaur bones for the famous paleontologist Edward Cope. Cope was one of the men we talked about in the paleontological mistakes episode, the bitter enemy of Othniel Marsh. Lucas directed a team of workers digging for fossils in a number of sites near Garden Park in Colorado, and around the summer of 1878 he shipped the fossils he'd found to Marsh. Among them was a partial neural arch of a sauropod. The neural arch is the top part of a vertebra, in this case probably one near the hip. Sauropods, of course, are the biggest land animals known. Brontosaurus, Apatosaurus, and Diplodocus are all sauropods. Sauropods had long necks that were probably mostly held horizontally as the animal cropped low-growing plants and shrubs, and extremely long tails held off the ground. Their legs were column-like, something like enormous elephant legs, to support the massively heavy body. We know what Diplodocus looked like because we have lots of Diplodocus fossils and can reconstruct the entire skeleton, but for most other sauropods we still only have partial skeletons. The body size and shape of other sauropods are conjecture based on what we know about Diplodocus. In some cases we only have a few bones, or in the case of Cope's 1878 sauropod, a single partial bone. Cope examined the neural arch, sketched it and made notes, and published a formal description of it later in 1878. He named it Amphicoelias [Am-fi-sil-i-as] fragillimus. The largest species of Diplodocus, D. hallorum, was about 108 feet long, or 33 meters, measuring from its stretched-out head to the tip of its tail. Estimates of fragillimus from Cope's measurement of the single neural arch suggest that its tail alone might be longer than Diplodocus's whole body. Cope measured fragillimus's partial neural arch as 1.5 meters tall, or almost five feet. That's only the part that remained. It was broken and weathered, but the entire vertebra may have been as large as 2.7 meters high, or 8.85 feet. From that measurement, and considering that fragillimus was seemingly related to Diplodocus, even the most conservative estimate of fragillimus's overall size is 40 meters long, or 131 feet, and could be as long as 60 meters, or 197 feet. This is far larger than even Seismosaurus, which is estimated to have grown 33.5 meters long, or 110 feet, and which is considered the largest land animal known. So why isn't fragillimus considered the largest land animal known? Mainly because we no longer have the fossil to study. It's completely gone with no indication of where it might be or what happened to it. And that has led to some people thinking that it either never existed in the first place, or that Cope measured it wrong. One argument is that Cope wrote down the measurements wrong and that the neural arch wasn't nearly as large as Cope's notes indicate. But Lucas, who collected the fossil, always made his own measurements and these match up with what Cope reported. Lucas and Cope both remarked on the size of the fossil,

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Amurosaurus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Amurosaurus-Episode-362/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Amurosaurus, a lambeosaurine hadrosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Russia.In dinosaur news this week:The new ceratopsian, Sierraceratops turneri, was named from New Mexico (after previously being called Torosaurus)Over 100 eggs and 80 skeletons of Mussaurus show that they may have lived in age segregated groupsA new dinosaur was found in Inner Mongolia"Big John" the Triceratops was auctioned for $7.74 million, about five times the estimated value.A newly restored Plateosaurus is on display at the Natural History Museum in ViennaThe Moab Museum in Utah has a new Apatosaurus femur on displayThe Science Museum of Minnesota has a new exhibit, Ultimate DinosaursThe Journey Museum and Learning Center in South Dakota has a new replica of Tinker the T. rex on displayThree dinosaur statues were stolen from Dinosaur Park and found damaged at a frat party at the University of Texas AustinJack Horner and paleoartist Fabio Pastori are selling a set of 100 NFTs to raise money for paleontological researchThe Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual conference is right around the corner. We'll be releasing premium content of some of the non-dinosaur stories for our patrons. Go to Patreon.com/iknowdino to get access and help us keep creating I Know Dino every week.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Episode 110 – A Flood of Truth Part 6 – All KINDS of Animals Welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. In John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” The goal of Anchored by Truth is to encourage everyone to grow in the Christian faith by anchoring themselves to the secure truth found in the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God. Script/Notes: The Lord then said to Noah, “... Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.” Genesis Chapter 7, verses 1 through 3, New International Version ******** VK: Hello. I'm Victoria K welcoming you to another episode of Anchored by Truth. I'm in the studio today with RD Fierro, author and Founder Crystal Sea Books. Today we're going to continue our discussion about Noah and the flood that's described in chapters 6 through 9 of the book of Genesis. The story is probably one of the best known of the Bible's stories. It's so well known that it has been retold in countless forms especially on television and in the movies. But, the TV and movie writers don't always get the story right, do they RD? RD: Hello to all the Anchored by Truth listeners. No, unfortunately, they don't. VK: And in your view one of the things the popular media re-tellers get wrong the most is what actually happened with the animals. Correct? RD: Correct. So today on Anchored by Truth we want to spend the whole show just talking about what really happened with the animals. Now, to do this topic justice would probably take more than one show but there's a lot of good information that listeners can find on the internet. So, our principle goal for today is not to be exhaustive but just to discuss some of the major points that demonstrate that the Bible's report of the Noahic flood can be reasonably treated as literal history. VK: Ok. Well, it's sounds like there's a lot to get to. So, let's jump right in. Where do you want to start? RD: Let's start by just looking at an illustration of one of the more popular mischaracterizations that is often used to try to discredit the Bible story's historicity. VK: You're talking about the supposedly clever little quip that you heard on the popular TV comedy show The Big Bang Theory. What was it that you heard? RD: Just about everyone who has even seen one episode knows that “Sheldon,” the genius physicist on the show, is a determined atheist but his has a mother who is a devout Christians. So, one time when talking about his mother, Sheldon acknowledges that she is a sweet woman, but he says that his mother believes that “all the animals in the world got on one boat.” The line is intended to be comedic but it wouldn't have been included if the writers didn't think that their audience would get a laugh at the “simpletons” who accept the Bible's flood account as literal history. VK: Well, popular culture poking fun at Christians isn't exactly news. But we readily acknowledge there are legitimate questions about the animals that were on the ark that do merit explanation. And that's the biggest reasons we do Anchored by Truth - to provide a starting point for listeners to understand that there are reasonable answers to reasonable questions. And when you understand the answers it reinforces the authenticity of the Biblical account. RD: Precisely. So, let's look at a few of the obvious questions that are pertinent to the ark and the animals. One of the first questions is obviously how many animals were there on the ark. And a second question is how all of the biological diversity that we see on the earth today could have arisen from the animals that disembarked. So, let's start with the first question: which animals actually got on the ark. That question has two sides. One part is the animals that got on the ark. The second is the animals that didn't. VK: So, let's make one obvious observation right away. The only animals that the Bible refers to as being on the ark were land animals and birds. There was no reason for fish or other sea creatures, including marine mammals, to be on board the ark. Even though many sea creatures would have died as a result of the extremely rough seas, obviously a large number of sea creatures would have been able to survive. But there is a question about the distinction between how fresh water species and salt water species could both have survived in the same body of water? RD: There are several possibilities to address the salt water vs. fresh water dilemma. First, it is well known that there are many species of fish that can survive in a wide variety of salinity conditions. Second, experiments with fish have shown that even varieties of fish thought to be exclusively fresh water can survive in sea water. One researcher took some species of cichlids, which is a freshwater species found in 3 continents, and put them in sea water where they not only lived but reproduced normally. Third, since the density of salt water is heavier than fresh water it's possible that for a time there were layers of differing salinity that formed in the water covering the earth. There is a well-known phenomenon called a halocline where a vertical salinity gradient persists in a body of water. It's possible that this occurred as the fresh rain water mixed with the previous ocean water and each type of fish just sought out the salinity level it preferred. VK: Ok. That would seem to address how various fish species were able to persist during the period the water covered the earth. What about after the flood waters receded and there was a distinction between fresh water lakes and the oceans that remained? RD: As the waters receded some of the fish would have just wound up in the kind of water they preferred but it's well known that many fish can survive in a wide range of salinities provided they're given a chance to acclimatize gradually. That certainly would have been the case as the dry land appeared and the final bodies of water became evident. It wouldn't have happened instantaneously. VK: Well, that all seems very reasonable. So, let's move on to talking about the animals that did get on the ark. Sheldon's comment aside there were a lot of animals that did get on the ark. How many likely made it and how did they all fit? RD: So, that question obviously has two parts: the number of animals and the size of the boat. We heard in one of the Life Lessons with a Laugh that the ark was an enormous ship. Since the dimensions of the ark that are given in scripture are given in cubits we can't be exactly sure of the precise size but we can make some very good estimates. A cubit was considered to be the length of a man's forearm so most scholars reckon the cubit as being between 18 inches and 21 inches. But Dr. Gleason Archer in his book An Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties thinks that the cubit may have been as much as 24 inches because we have some indication that in the pre-flood days human beings were even larger than they were today. So, Dr. Archer estimates that the ark could have been as much as 3.6 million cubic feet. Dr. Jonathan Sarfati in his Genesis commentary The Genesis Account uses an 18 inch cubit and even at the smaller size notes that the ark had a carrying capacity of over 340 semi-trailers. Sarfati also notes that even using current space regulations for animal transport the ark could transport at least 19,000 sheep. VK: So, under the most conservative estimates the ark had a huge amount of space – especially when you remember that the Lord told Noah to build the ark with three decks. But, when it comes to actually fitting the animals in it's important to understand a basic point. The Hebrew word that is used to instruct Noah about which animals to bring on the ark is the word “min.” In some earlier English translations the word “min” was mistranslated as the word “species.” The more proper translation should be into the English word “kind.” And that's the way most translations have it today. So, as we heard in our opening scripture in the New International Version Genesis, chapter 7, verses 1 through 3 reads: “Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.” So, in terms of modern taxonomy what does the word “kind” mean? RD: The term “kind” does not correspond exactly to any the taxonomic levels that we currently use but as you've noted it does not correspond to what we would refer to as a species. The current taxonomy hierarchy has eight ranks from the general to specific. These are; domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. Most creationist biologists believe the Biblical “kind” falls somewhere between a “family” and a “genus.” When it uses the word “kind” the Bible is simply referring to animals that can breed together and produce fertile offspring. In other words, the Biblical term “kind” is a functional rather than categorical definition. This is a key point. It will eliminate a lot of confusion if people get away from the notion that somehow Noah was instructed to every species of land animal on earth. That's simply not the case. This distinction of kind referring to reproductive activity not what might be termed external morphology is true in a lot of cases that might surprise people. VK: Such as the fact that may different types of dogs or cats are known as separate species but they can, in fact, reproduce together. It's well known that aside from size limitations many different varieties of dogs can interbreed. And there are some more exotic examples. Lions and tigers are definitely different species but they have been successfully bred together to produce a “liger” or a “tigon” depending on whether the male is a lion or tiger. It's highly likely that only one pair of breeding felines or breeding canines was actually brought on board. Take dogs, for example. Noah didn't have to take two cocker spaniels, two collies, two red setters, etc. He would have needed just one pair of dogs, like the wolf kind, with much genetic variation, somewhat like mongrels today. Just understanding this helps to show that the Bible's instruction to Noah about the animals was reasonable. But that still leaves open the question of exactly how many animals were on the ark. RD: Well, there's not uniformity in the opinions of Biblical scholars on the exact number for a variety of reasons. So, let's think about some of the issues that arise when we're talking about that question. First, there were more different “kinds” of animals around in Noah's day than there are today. At a minimum we know from fossil evidence that there are a number of different kinds of animals that existed in the past that don't exist today. Dinosaurs for instance. VK: Dinosaurs being on the ark raises a whole other set of questions. RD: Yes. It does. And we'll get to that in just a second. But first, let's get back to the basic numbers question. As we've mentioned the actual number of animals Noah put on board depends on what a biblical ‘kind' is. John Woodmorappe was an author and teacher who had degrees in biology and geology. He wrote a book entitled Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study. Woodmorappe calculated that the number of animals would have been less than 16,000, if a biblical kind is roughly equivalent to the group of animals we call a genus today. However, if the biblical kind is equivalent to the ‘family' grouping, then there would have only been 2,000 animals. The actual number was probably somewhere in between. VK: So, even if the actual number of animals on the ark were on the higher size, the ark would still have had adequate carrying capacity? RD: Absolutely. As we noted earlier, just based on space, the ark could have transported at least 19,000 sheep even using current space regulatory requirements for animal transport and even using the most conservative estimate for how long a cubit was. But obviously most land dwelling animals today aren't anywhere near the size of a sheep. Even considering species, today there are only 290 main types of land animals larger than a sheep. There are 737 that range in size from sheep to rats, and there are between 1,300 and 1,400 smaller than a rat. So, most of the animals would have been easily housed in small enclosures. The average the size of all the animals that would have been on the ark would have been about the size of a rabbit. And even large animals, such as the biggest dinosaurs, begin their lives small. In selecting creatures to repopulate the earth, it would make more sense to choose those that were young and healthy, rather than the older, mature ones. VK: So, let's get back to the dinosaur question. I'm gathering that most creationist scientists believe that there were dinosaurs on the ark. RD: Yes. We know they existed and because of the fossil evidence we know many, though not all, were land dwelling and air breathing. So, Noah would have brought a breeding pair of each kind of dinosaur on board. And despite the scenes they show in science fiction most dinosaurs started out life as relatively small creatures. The largest dinosaur eggs that have ever been found are only about the size of a football and there's a good reason for that. In order for the embryo inside the egg to survive air must be able to permeate the shell. For an egg to be structurally sound and much bigger than that it would have to be so thick that air wouldn't be able to penetrate the egg shell. So, it is overwhelmingly likely that even the largest dinosaurs started life as creatures that the ark could easily accommodate. It's also well-known now that dinosaurs went through growth spurts. For example, the Apatosaurus, which is known to be about 25 tons when it was fully mature, was only about 1 ton when it was five years old. Then between the ages of 5 and 12 it grew about 5 tons a year before leveling off. So, from what we now know about dinosaurs there are no physical or biological impediments to dinosaurs being included on the ark. VK: And - for any listener who would like more information about dinosaurs being on the ark - we have an entire episode of Anchored by Truth in which we discussed this subject. The episode was part of our Truth in Genesis series and it was entitled Dinosaur Duplicity. Anyone who wants more info can just go to our website or the episode is available through most major podcasting apps. So, let's get to another question. How about insects? I think a lot of people would have been happy if they had been left off the passenger manifest. RD: And, in fact, insects weren't on the original ark passenger manifest. The Hebrew text that about which animals to include basically meant Noah was to take animals or birds that breathe through nostrils. Insects don't have nostrils so they Noah wasn't instructed to bring them on board. But it's pretty likely that many insects were able to climb on board and stowaway through the voyage. It's also likely that a great may different types of insects survived on islands that were made of floating debris. That's one of the ways insects have been able to distribute themselves so effectively around the world even among bodies of land that are widely separated by water. VK: So that brings up the question of how did the animals spread all over the earth when they all got off a single boat that likely landed somewhere in what today we call the Mideast? Obviously, there are animals that are present on islands or continents that are pretty remote from the place where the ark must have landed. RD: There are two main possibilities – land bridges between spreading tectonic plates or animals being transported on vegetation mats that form from downed trees bound clustered with other plant material. Initially, as the final shape of earth was being formed there may have been land bridges between various islands and the continental coast that have since submerged. After all there are cities in various places around the world that at one point were obviously above water like Alexandria in Egypt that have since been submerged. And large vegetation mats are commonly seen around the world today. In fact, floating islands are found on six of the seven continents – all but Antarctica. In South America (Peru) there's a group of people called the Uros that live on about 40 floating islands on Lake Titicaca. VK: Well, that makes sense. But I guess that leads to the next question. If Noah brought only one pair of a particular “kind” how did we wind up with all the different species of animals that we have today? RD: The kinds of animals that were on the ark developed into contemporary species through adaptation that was built into their original DNA. Contrary to popular belief informed creationists do not dispute that “natural selection” is an adaptive process that permits the development of new species. It's just that these new species always remain within their original created “kind.” In fact natural selection as an adaptive force was recognized by scientists who believed in Biblical creation before Charles Darwin popularized the concept in book Origin of the Species in 1859. In 1668 Anglican Bishop John Wilkins (1614 – 1672) the founder of the metric system and the first Secretary of the Royal Society … argued that all the varieties of cattle today, including the American “buffalo” or bison, would have arisen from two (or probably seven) cattle ancestors on the Ark. Wilkins wrote that: “There being much less difference betwixt these, than there is betwixt several Dogs; And it being known by experience what various changes are frequently occasioned in the same species, by several countries, diets, and other accidents.” One of Wilkins' contemporaries, German Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher (1602 – 1680) … had the same idea which he presented in his meticulously illustrated book on Noah's Ark. Kircher expressed his belief that our modern species had developed by transmutation within definite series of forms.” Even the award winning evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould acknowledged that ““Natural selection ranked as a standard item in biological discourse” among pre-Darwinian creationists.” Gould believed that Darwin's great contribution was not the identification of natural selection as an adaptive mechanism but as a “creative force.” VK: I guess then that there are two final questions. First, what did all the animals eat while they were on the ark? We know that today there are many animals that are primarily meat eaters, but that certainly wouldn't have worked on the ark RD: All animals were originally plant eaters (herbivores). We know that from Genesis 1:29 – 30. And it's well known that even animals that are primarily meat eaters today can survive on plants. Many people live their entire lives as vegans or vegetarians. There's a famous lion called Lea that was raised in Italy on a diet of potatoes, green vegetables, and cheesy pasta. And in the last decade the remnants of different kinds of grasses has been found in fossilized dinosaur dung. This is a real problem for evolutionary time frames because supposedly dinosaurs died millions of years before the first grasses were thought to have emerged. VK: One final question then. Why did Noah bring seven pairs of clean animals but only one pair of unclean animals? RD: This is a time before the Mosaic law but evidently even then God had designated certain animals as acceptable for use as sacrifices. Clean animals could be used for sacrifices so Noah brought more of them so when some were used as sacrifices there were still pairs available for breeding. VK: So – notwithstanding Sheldon's obvious skepticism about the accuracy of the Bible's flood story – there are sensible answers to the questions that most people might have. And as we observed before these answers make sense in the real world. They are consistent with current observations about science and geography and biology and how the world just functions in general. In other words the Bible flood account has all the hallmarks of history so it serves to validate the accuracy and reliability of the Bible even when the Bible describes events that are outside our normal experiences today. It's a good idea to remember that all of this information is available because there are faithful Christian scientists and researchers who have been willing to dedicate their lives to the pursuit of truth. They have done this even though they are well aware that the popular culture may be hostile to their findings. All this points to the need to both support their efforts and to be faithful stewards of the resources God has entrusted to us. So, today let's pray that we would all be faithful stewards recognizing that our heavenly Father is the real source of all our blessings. ---- PRAYER TO BE A FAITHFUL STEWARD We hope you'll be with us next time and we hope you'll take some time to encourage some friends to tune in too, or listen to the podcast version of this show. If you'd like to hear more, try out crystalseabooks.com where “We're not famous but our Boss is!” (Bible Quotes from the New Living Translation) The Book of Genesis, chapter 8, verses 1 through 5. New Living Translation https://creation.com/topics/global-flood https://activechristianity.org/6-unbelievably-good-reasons-to-read-your-bible https://considerthegospel.org/2014/03/28/the-noah-controversy-could-that-flood-have-happened/ How could Noah get all the animals on the Ark? - creation.com Also, consult Chapters 2 and 3 of “The Greatest Hoax in the World” by Dr. Jonathan Sarfati available from creation.com   VK: So, the details of the Bible story make sense in the real world. A boat with the ark's dimensions would be stable in an ocean environment even one being racked by huge waves. The ark's size meant that it had a cargo capacity of up to 3.5 million cubic feet. We all know that boats need proper ballast for stability and the ark would have had the most ballast when the seas were roughest. As the year in the ark went by the people and animals would have eaten the food so the amount of ballast would have gradually decreased. It made sense that God told Noah to coat the ark with pitch inside and out. People made sturdy wooden boats and covered them in pitch and sailed them for hundreds of years. Doves and ravens still fly in our skies today. It made sense that the raven could survive outside the ark even before the water had completely dried because ravens are carrion eaters. So, the raven could have landed on pieces of a floating carcass and survived, whereas a dove couldn't. Doves eat fruits, seeds, and vegetables so the dove had to come back to ark until it could find food. VK: So, the main point is that here is another point from scientific observation that is consistent with the description of the flood account. We've covered a lot of ground in the last few weeks and our listeners have probably heard things about Noah's story they had never heard before. But we haven't yet talked about the animals on the ark and I think you want to begin that discussion next time. RD: I do. And one final reminder for today. By their very nature past events, especially those of the distant past – like the flood of Noah - cannot be repeated. So to make intelligent assessments about whether such a flood took place or is highly likely to have occurred we have to look evidence that is available today. And as we reminded everyone last time, all investigators, all interpreters of evidence, bring a viewpoint, a lens through which they interpret evidence. I'm hesitant to say they bring a bias because that word can have a negative connotation but we certainly should be aware of our interpretive lens. This is particularly important when it comes to evaluating the historicity of Bible events. VK: That is a very important point. Today Bible critics may try to criticize – say a geologist – who believes that the earth's crust provides evidence that a worldwide flood occurred by saying the geologist is a Christian. But that criticism would be no more valid than someone criticizing a non-Christian geologist who doesn't believe a flood occurred by pointing out that that geologist isn't a Christian. It's no more fair to say that a Christian geologist can't interpret geological evidence fairly than to say that a non-Christian geologist can't. Sounds to me like a good time for a prayer. Today let's listen to a prayer for us all to receive the illumination we need to bring the light of truth to our friends, communities, and world. VK: It's amazing to think about the early days of God's creation and how God has sovereignly superintended everything throughout history. I mean the universe has been around for so long now that we pretty much take for granted everything that we see. We treat our world and in fact the entire cosmos as if it has always been here but the truth is that it hasn't and it won't be in the future. God created everything for a purpose and He is guiding everything to a conclusion that will fully fulfill all his plan. That's part of the reason we wanted to tackle the story of Noah and the flood early on in Anchored by Truth. Noah's story is a perfect illustration of God's sovereignty over both his people and creation and His ability to bring all His purposes to fruition. RD: Yes. That was part of the point that we made in an earlier episode where we contrasted uniformitarianism and catastrophism as differing ways for viewing how our earth came to exist in its current form. Most people today look to uniformitarianism to as the primary explanation for the earth's current geology but as we have pointed out in previous episodes that there is substantial evidence that catastrophism is as good or better at explaining what we see around us in the rocks and in fossils. There are massive geological formations on the earth's surface that were once underwater but today those formations are nowhere near an ocean. The list of details in the Bible story that make sense in the real world goes on and on. But the details in most of the variants don't make nearly as much sense in the real world. But the existence of those stories themselves are evidence that at one point a real event took place even if some of the details have gotten mixed up over time.

For the second episode of "Guillermo Del Toro Month," the AKOL team reviews Pacific Rim. In addition, Kev goes on their famous "Pluto Rant," Mary outlines her universal theory of good dog names, and Ali discusses her time as a groupie for an unnamed bluegrass band. Email: allkindsofliquids@gmail.com Twitter and Instagram: @AllLiquids Mary's website: wlwfilmreviews.com Errata: During the episode, Kev incorrectly claims that the Brontosaurus did not exist. While it is true that the genus was reclassified under the genus Apatosaurus in 1903, these classifications were revised in 2015. Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus are now widely considered to be separate genera. 

Well, it’s been fun and we all had a good laugh but now we come to the end of our “Pixar Pix” with this week’s entry “The Good Dinosaur.” Oh man, remember Halloween 2015, when all the kids were dressing up as Arlo the Apatosaurus? Sigh….. good times.  So this movie is based on a … Continue reading "Episode 120: The Good Dinosaur (2015)"

Learn about how a ghosted email causes different stress than a rude response does, the 15-year grudge match between rival dino hunters known as The Bone Wars, and crown shyness, the forest’s version of social distancing. Ignoring someone's email and drafting a rude response stress people out in similar but different ways by Kelsey Donk What new research reveals about rude workplace emails. (2020). ScienceDaily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200925113648.htm  Yuan, Z., Park, Y., & Sliter, M. T. (2020). Put you down versus tune you out: Further understanding active and passive e-mail incivility. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 25(5), 330–344. https://doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000215 Zhenyu Yuan,YoungAh Park. (2020, July 21). The Psychological Toll of Rude E-mails. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-psychological-toll-of-rude-e-mails/  The Bone Wars Were a 15-Year Grudge Match Between Rival Dino Hunters by Reuben Westmaas The Two Paleontologists Who Had a Bone to Pick with Each Other | Detours | Prehistoric Road Trip. (2020, June 7). WTTW Chicago. https://interactive.wttw.com/prehistoric-road-trip/detours/the-two-paleontologists-who-had-a-bone-to-pick-with-each-other  Engber, D. (2013, August 7). A Brilliant Paleontologist, Unfit for Battle in the Bone Wars. Slate Magazine; Slate. https://slate.com/business/2013/08/dinosaur-bone-wars-othniel-charles-marsh-edward-drinker-cope-and-their-forgotten-rival.html  Crown shyness is how trees practice social distancing by Steffie Drucker McVean, A. (2018, September 19). Trees avoid touching each other due to "crown shyness." The results are beautiful webs of leaves. Office for Science and Society. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know/trees-avoid-touching-each-other-due-crown-shyness-results-are-beautiful-webs-leaves  Osterloff, Emily. (2020) Crown shyness: are trees social distancing too? Nhm.Ac.Uk. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/crown-shyness-are-trees-social-distancing.html  Wu, K. (2020, July 6). Some trees may “social distance” to avoid disease. Nationalgeographic.com. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/07/tree-crown-shyness-forest-canopy/  MENG, S. X., RUDNICKI, M., LIEFFERS, V. J., REID, D. E. B., & SILINS, U. (2006). Preventing crown collisions increases the crown cover and leaf area of maturing lodgepole pine. Journal of Ecology, 94(3), 681–686. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2006.01121.x  ‌Crepy, M. A., & Casal, J. J. (2014). Photoreceptor-mediated kin recognition in plants. New Phytologist, 205(1), 329–338. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13040  Ballare, C. L., Sanchez, R. A., Scopel, A. L., Casal, J. J., & Ghersa, C. M. (1987). Early detection of neighbour plants by phytochrome perception of spectral changes in reflected sunlight. Plant, Cell and Environment, 10(7), 551–557. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-3040.ep11604091  Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Ashley Hamer and Natalia Reagan (filling in for Cody Gough). You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Find us online at www.jurassicparkpodcast.com Welcome to The Jurassic Park Podcast! In episode 253, we welcome back Tal, The Traveling Clatt, to hear about his recent videos on his two YouTube channels. He recently refurbed a Tuk Tuk to look just like a Jurassic Park Explorer, so we get a teaser on the project and be sure to watch the videos below. After that, Dakota Morgan returns with another installment of The Hatchery, to focus on another animatronic from the series. Today, he looks at the dying Apatosaurus from Jurassic World. Sit back, relax and ENJOY this episode of The Jurassic Park Podcast! Check Out Tal’s Jurassic Park Tuk Tuk Videos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LaUXLVnTPI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U864tiUqG1I This Episode’s Contributors: Tal | The Traveling Clatt + Dakota Morgan Be sure to check out all their links and work by clicking through! Don't forget to give our voicemail line a call at 732-825-7763! Share this post and comment below! Enjoy.      

In a world where dinosaurs and humans live side-by-side, an Apatosaurus named michael makes an unlikely human friend. A young Mexican boy named caroline illegally travels to the U.S. to find his mother (who is illegally in the U.S.) after his grandmother passes away. A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell led by Ben Brewer wants the money to help finance their war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away. Ben brings in convicted hacker brandy to help him. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/smashingcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/smashingcast/support

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Coronosaurus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Coronosaurus-Episode-286/To get access to lots of patron only content check out https://www.patreon.com/iknowdinoDinosaur of the day Coronosaurus, a centrosaurine ceratopsian from Alberta, Canada.In dinosaur news this week:Stellasaurus ancellae was named for its star-like frill and after the song ‘Starman' by David BowieNew seafloor samples show that cretaceous Antarctica was a freshwater swampScientists in Argentina have announced fossils of a "Megaraptor"Dinosaur National Monument is partially reopened, but the Quarry Exhibit Hall and other areas remain closeda theater in Nebraska had an online viewing called Dinosaur VacationIn Ferndale, Michigan, there’s a T. rex Walking clubA dad built an epic 48-foot Apatosaurus jungle gym in his backyard for his kidsThis episode is brought to you by Columbia University Press. Their book The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them by Donald Prothero is now available in paperback at bit.ly/earthin25rocks use promo code CUP30 to get 30% off the purchase price.

(image source: http://www.nenature.com/Dinosaurs/Apatosaurus.htm) Host Matthew Donald and guest co-host Lawrence Mack discuss Apatosaurus, the famous longneck martyr that tragically fought off the Sharptooth that one time. From the Late Jurassic, this 70-foot sauropod ate a lot of trees and caused a lot of drama during the great Bone Wars. Exciting stuff! Also, you can purchase Matthew Donald's dinosaur book "Megazoic" on Amazon by clicking here, its sequel "Megazoic: The Primeval Power" by clicking here, its third installment "Megazoic: The Hunted Ones" by clicking here, or its final installment "Megazoic: An Era's End" by clicking here. 

Sabrina explains the Bone Wars in incredible depth. The Bone Wars refers to the period between the 1870s and 1890s, where two paleontologists, Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, had a rivalry that eventually ruined them but also made dinosaurs mainstream.Some of the dinosaurs they named were Allosaurus, Apatosaurus, Brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, Camptosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Coelophysis, Diplodocus, Dryosaurus, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, and our dinosaur of the day Hesperornis.Hesperornis is a penguin-like dinosaur with teeth and strange lobed feet.Some of the resources we used include:The Bonehunter’s Revenge by David Rains WallaceThe Dinosaur Hunters by Deborah CadburyThe Gilded Dinosaur by Mark JaffeThe Life of a Fossil Hunter by Charles SternbergThe Bone Hunters by Url LanhamBone Sharps, Cowboys & Thunder Lizards by Jim OttavianiFor links to more resources, all of the details we shared about Hesperornis, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Hesperornis-Episode-250/To get access to lots of patron only content check out https://www.patreon.com/iknowdino

Part of the scientific method involves making mistakes and correcting them. Here are some interesting and sometimes goofy mistakes made by paleontologists through the years, and how the mistakes were corrected. Iguanodon did not actually look like this (left). It looked like this (right): Pterosaur did not actually look like this (left). It looked like this (right): Elasmosaurus did not actually look like this (left). It looked like this (right): Apatosaurus/brontosaurus did not actually look like this (left). It looked like this (right): Stegosaurus did not actually look like this (left). It looked like this (right): Gastornis did not actually look like this (left). It looked like this (right): Those are Gastornis's footprints: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. Paleontology is the study of fossils, and really it’s only been a discipline for a little over a century. Back in the 19th and early 20th centuries, even experts made major mistakes in preparing and assembling fossil skeletons, and dishonest amateurs made deliberate errors so their fossil animals looked bigger or scarier. Many of these mistakes or hoaxes were displayed in museums, sometimes for decades. I found so many interesting examples during my research that I decided to split the episode into two. This week we’ll learn about some paleontological mistakes and what the fossil animals really looked like when they were alive. Next week we’ll look at the frauds and hoaxes. We’ll start with Iguanodon, a dinosaur that lived around 125 million years ago in what is now Europe. It ate plants and was fairly common, with a number of species now known to science. The biggest could grow as much as 43 feet long, or 13 meters. It had teeth that resemble an iguana’s, which is how it gets its name, and a beak probably covered in keratin that it used to clip through tough plants. It probably mostly walked on two legs and browsed from trees, but its front legs were long and it might have spent at least some of its time on all fours. But the most interesting thing about Iguanodon was its hands. Its little finger was slender and usually longer than the others and many researchers think it was used for handling food and other objects. The first finger, which is equivalent to a thumb, wasn’t so much a digit as just a big spike. It’s called a thumb spike and no one’s sure what it was for. It might have been used for defense, but it might also have been used to help dig up plants. Maybe it was used for both. But it was the source of an embarrassing mistake that many paleontologists made for years. Iguanodon came to the attention of science in 1822 when a medical doctor in Sussex, England found some fossilized teeth. No one was sure what kind of animal the teeth belonged to, although guesses ranged from a crocodile to a rhinoceros. In 1824 the doctor, Gideon Mantell, noted the teeth’s resemblance to iguana teeth, but so big that he estimated Iguanodon must have been almost 60 feet long, or 18 meters. He also thought Iguanodon looked like an iguana. In 1834 more Iguanodon fossils came to light in a quarry and Mantell bought them. This incomplete skeleton included a thumb spike, but Mantell didn’t know where it belonged. He thought it was a horn, so when he made a drawing of the living animal, he placed the thumb spike on the nose. And there it stayed, despite other fossils found with the thumb spike in place on the hand, and despite other scientists pointing out that they didn’t think Iguanodon had a horn on its nose. It wasn’t until 1882 that the nose horn vanished for good and Iguanodon started looking more like itself. Similarly, pterosaurs have been misunderstood since the very beginning, with a lot of frankly ridiculous suggestions made about them. To be fair, they are really strange animals and nothing like any animal living today.

Avsnitt 5 är äntligen här.Vi börjar avsnittet med våra mest spontana tankar om Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Dock hade vi vid inspelade stund bara spelat ett par timmar, så vår kunskap lär förhoppningsvis växa de närmaste veckorna.I huvuddelen går vi igenom våra tankar om dementorer, patronusar och Azkaban. Här lyckas vi också namedroppa Danny Saucedo samt att Gustav kallar Lillefot från Landet för längesen för en Brachiosaurus när han i själva verket är en Apatosaurus. Klassiskt misstag. Vi avslutar som vanligt med vår Veckans Chosen One, idag en Trolldomsminister.Trevlig lyssning.

Dinosaur of the day Kaatedocus , the smaller cousin of Diplodocus and Barosaurus.In dinosaur news this week:A new basal ornithopod with skinny arms, Mahuidacursor lipanglef, was described in ArgentinaA hadrosaur was found in Montana with marks showing it was probably chewed on by a juvenile T. rexTracks from the Middle Jurassic of China appear to be the first evidence of quadrupedal theropod walkingSeveral institutions in New Mexico are working together this spring to photograph, scan, map, and model the Clayton Lake Dinosaur TracksiteDinosaur Journey Museum in Fruita, Colorado, has a new 6ft 4in Apatosaurus femur on displayThe Natural History Museum at Tring in the UK has a new, free exhibition, that shows off the dinosaurs of the British IslesThe U.S. Postal Service is coming out with new T. rex stamps this yearThe Canadian Mint has a new, limited edition glow in the dark dinosaur coin of a hatching HypacrosaurusTo get access to lots of patron only content check out https://www.patreon.com/iknowdinoFor links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Kaatedocus , and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Kaatedocus-Episode-226/

This dinosaur is one of my favorite things at NAPE, and a little blow up dinosaur is a great little gift for the kids when I get home.https://www.sinclairoil.com/dino-historySinclair’s advertising writers first had the idea to use dinosaurs in Sinclair marketing back in 1930. They were promoting lubricants refined from crude oil believed to have formed when dinosaurs roamed the earth.The original campaign included a dozen different dinosaurs, but it was the gentle giant, the Apatosaurus, that captured the hearts of Americans.Dino was called a Brontosaurus when he was first used in Sinclair advertising. So why do we call him an Apatosaurus now?Dinosaur fossils are rare, which makes it difficult to study and classify them. Since 1903, paleontologists have had conflicting opinions about whether the Brontosaurus is its own unique genus, or whether it’s the same as the Apatosaurus. Sinclair has followed the prevailing opinions of the scientific community, which currently favors calling Dino an Apatosaurus – though new research may eventually change that.https://pandplandservice.com/https://thetalkinggeek.com/http://napeexpo.com/https://www.spreaker.com/user/thetalkinggeek

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País Estados Unidos Dirección Peter Sohn Guion Meg LeFauve (Historia: Peter Sohn, Erik Benson, Meg LeFauve, Kelsey Mann, Bob Peterson) Música Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna Sinopsis ¿Qué hubiera pasado si el asteroide que cambió para siempre la vida en la Tierra hubiera esquivado el planeta y los dinosaurios no se hubieran extinguido nunca? Un viaje al mundo de los dinosaurios donde un Apatosaurus llamado Arlo se hace amigo de un humano, aunque resulte asombroso. Mientras viaja por un paisaje desolado y misterioso, Arlo aprende a enfrentarse a sus temores y descubre de lo que es capaz.

Jay ( @hoohoo3000 (http://www.twitter.com/hoohoo3000) ) unpack whether or not we're at Peak Nostalgia™, play "Tyler Perry's Madea Movie or Scorned Black Woman Movie", and discuss whether or not the people who make kids' movies have kids (or even interact with other humans) before describing Colin Trevorrow took a beloved franchise and sucked out all the soul with his silly lil' dinosaur movie Jurassic World. Theme: Bustin' by Neil Cicierega THIS WEEK'S LINKS: Box Office Mojo - Ready Player One Tops Easter Weekend Box Office with $53M Four-Day Debut Wikipedia - Jurassic World Wired - Inside the Making of the Apatosaurus from Jurassic World Support this podcast

In our 161st episode, we talk with paleoartist Mark Hallett and Dr. Mathew J. Wedel, the creators of the book, The Sauropod Dinosaurs: Life in the Age of Giants, published in 2016 by Johns Hopkins University Press. In the news: New troodontid dinosaur from Mongolia Almas ukhaa, a 10-year-old is trying to change Utah's state fossil from Allosaurus to Utahraptor, museums around the world have a number of events and dinosaur exhibits, and much more.  Dinosaur of the day Apatosaurus, a sauropod whose name means “deceptive lizard.” This episode is brought to you in part byAudible.com. Get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial at audibletrial.com/IKnowDino. To get access to lots of patron only content check out https://www.patreon.com/iknowdino. For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Apatosaurus, and our fun fact check out http://iknowdino.com/apatosaurus-episode-161/

Clio knows all about history, and in all of her studies, she has never found a worse internet connection than the one that delayed this episode. Also Science's screen broke. But it's finally arrived! Rissa mispronounces 'scimitar.' Clio tells kids to just say no to infamy. Science considers marriage.

The League's adventures in Jurassic Park continue as Mordin Solus, Dante Sparda, Sterling Archer, and Stitch -- along with their new companions, Lara Croft, Roland Deschain, Zero, and a friendly velociraptor -- try to escape this world of reptilian tyrants while thwarting the mysterious goals of their Phyrexian oppressors! Can they overcome Slash Panther scouts, an angry Apatosaurus, and a GODDAMN T-REX on their path to victory? Can Dante and Archer survive their own tendencies toward motorcycles and stunt manuevers? Will Mordin hit on Lara out of sheer spite? And are there any limits to Stitch's strength...or his bizarre creativity?

Interview with Chris Coulson, the creator of Dexter the baby T-rex and Rent a Dinosaur.  Also a review of Land Before Time, We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, and The Good Dinosaur on blu-ray. Plus, dinosaur of the day Arlo the Apatosaurus, from Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur. Visit http://www.IKnowDino.com for more information including a link to dinosaur sites near you. You can also visit https://www.patreon.com/iknowdino to get the inside scoop on I Know Dino.

Diet is perhaps the most important aspect of ecology. As such, understanding the diet of extinct animals is crucial if we wish to reconstruct the ecosystems of the past. However, determining what was on the menu for extinct animals, known only from fragmentary fossils, is far from straight forward. We spoke to Dr David Button, from the University of Birmingham, to learn about the techniques palaeontologists use to deduce diet from fossils.

The Good Dinosaur - (2015) In a world where dinosaurs and humans live side-by-side, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.

The Good Dinosaur - (2015) In a world where dinosaurs and humans live side-by-side, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.

WiTcast - Win & Fail 2015 / WiTapp / โปรเจ็ค WitThai สปอนเซอร์โดย สกว./ WiTshop / WiT Quizzz Special ข่าวเด่น 2015 + ข่าวใหม่มกราคม 2016   SHOW NOTE สินค้า WiTshop   พรีวิวหน้าตา WiTapp ที่กำลังสร้าง  WiT Quizzz Special คำถามที่เป็นข่าวเก่าทั้งหมดยกมาจาก quiz ที่เว็บนี้สร้างไว้ http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-14/quiz-big-science-stories-of-2015/7022380 1. ปีที่ผ่านมา 2015 นานาชาติกำหนดให้เป็นปีแห่งอะไร? A Crystallography B Light C Pulses D Sustainable energy เฉลย B ปีแห่งแสง 2. ในปี 2015 นักวิทย์ค้นพบอะไรใหม่ เป็นครั้งแรกในรอบ 30 ปี A feathered dinosaur B exoplanet C antibiotics D gene for Happiness เฉลย C ยาปฏิชีวนะ teixobactin-1,2,3,4,5 3. บรอนโตซอรัส เป็นชื่อที่กลับมาได้รับการยอมรับอีกครั้ง หลังจากเลิกใช้ไปเกือบ 100 ปี / คำถาม: ในปี 1903 ชื่อบรอนโตซอรัสถูกยกเลิกไปเพราะอะไร A เพราะลักษณะใกล้เคียงกับอีกพันธุ์ที่ชื่อ Apatosaurus มากไป B เพราะชื่อติดหูเกินไปจนคนไม่ยอมสนใจไดโนเสาร์พันธุ์อื่น C เพราะพบว่าฟอสซิลเป็นของปลอม D เพราะชิ้นส่วนที่พบมีจำนวนน้อยเกินกว่าจะยืนยันว่าเป็นไดโนเสาร์จริง เฉลย A เพราะลักษณะใกล้เคียงกับอีกพันธุ์ที่ชื่อ Apatosaurus มากไป / ปัจจุบันมีตัวอย่างฟอสซิลพอยันว่าเป็นอีกชนิดนึงจริงๆ ได้ชื่อกลับคืนมาแล้ว -1,2,3,4   4. นักวิทย์ชาวจีน จุดชนวนดราม่าช่วงต้นปี เพราะทดลองหรือค้นพบอะไร? A ทดลอง edit DNA ในตัวอ่อนมนุษย์ B ค้นพบไดโนเสาร์ที่ไม่มีขน C สังเคราะห์ฝิ่นจากยีสต์ D อ้างว่าค้นพบหลักฐานยืนยัน Gravitational Waves เฉลย A ทดลอง edit DNA ในตัวอ่อนมนุษย์-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 5. ในโลกเรามีปลาชื่อโอ๊ปป้า (opah fish) ซึ่งโด่งดังจากเรื่องอะไร ? A เป็นปลาที่ใหญ่ที่สุดในโลก B เป็นปลาที่ดำน้ำได้ลึกที่สุด C พบเฉพาะที่ Great Barrier Reef เท่านั้น D เป็นปลาเลือดอุ่น D เป็นปลาเลือดอุ่น -1,2,3,4,5   6. ข่าวใหม่ 2016 / ล่าสุด เดือนมกรานี้เอง แวดวงสำรวจอวกาศมีการค้นพบอะไร? A ดาวเคราะห์ดวงใหม่ B สสารมืด C พลังด้านมืด D ธาตุใหม่ 4 ธาตุ เฉลย A ดาวเคราะห์ดวงใหม่ - Planet 9 -1,2,3,4,5 ส่วนธาตุใหม่ 4 ธาตุมีดังนี้ -1,2,3 ununtrium, (Uut or element 113) ununpentium (Uup, element 115) ununseptium (Uus, element 117) ununoctium (Uuo, element 118).   รอบโบนุส!!!! 7. การโฉบเยือนพลูโตของยานนิวฮอไรซั่น ส่งภาพดาวเคราะห์แคระและดวงจันทร์บริวารกลับมามากมาย คำถาม: ดวงจันทร์นั้นมีชื่อว่าอะไร A Nix B Charon C Styx D Kereberos เฉลย B Charon 8. ปลายปี มีการค้นพบกรุกระดูกมนุษย์โบราณสายพันธุ์ใหม่ในถ้ำที่แอฟริกาใต้ มนุษย์สายพันธุ์นี้มีชื่อว่า A Homo habilis B Australopithecus dyiremeda C Homo naledi D Australopithecus aferensis เฉลย C Homo naledi -1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 เสริมนิดนะฮะ - ในตอนปป.บอกว่าผู้ค้นพบเป็นผู้ชาย ส่วนอาบันบอกเป็นผู้หญิง จริงๆ คือที่พบคนแรกสุดเป็นสองหนุ่มนักลุยถ้ำชื่อ Rick Hunter กับ Steven Tucker ตามนั้น(รูปบน) ส่วนทีมนักวิจัยที่เกณฑ์กันลงไปขุดกระดูกออกมาภายหลังเป็นทีมหญิงล้วน (รูปล่าง) เพราะอาศัยเรือนร่างเพรียวบางมุดสะดวก และโปรเจ็คทั้งหมดนี้เกิดขึ้นภายใต้การนำของบอสใหญ่ทางวิชาการคือคุณ Lee Berger อีกที  (รูปล่างไปอีก ที่ถือกระดูกมือ)   9. ปลายปี NASA ประกาศการค้นพบ “ครั้งใหญ่” บนดาวอังคาร การค้นพบนั้นคือ A เอเลี่ยน B แม็ต เดม่อน C ร่องรอยการไหลของน้ำ D ชั้นบรรยากาศหนาแน่น เฉลย C  ร่องรอยการไหลของน้ำ อันนี้ WiTcast เคยรายงานละเอียดไว้แล้ว เชิญย้อนดูย้อนฟังได้ใน ep.35.1 หมดรอบ โบนุส!!!! 10.ในปี 2015 เราฉลองครบรอบ 100 ปี ทฤษฎีสัมพัทธภาพทั่วไปของไอน์สไตน์ / ใจความของทฤษฎีนั้นคือ A gravity เกิดจากความโค้งของ space-time B E=Mc2 C การแยกอะตอมจะปลดปล่อยพลังงานมหาศาล D ธรรมชาติของแสงเป็นได้ทั้งคลื่นและอนุภาค เฉลย A gravity เกิดจากความโค้งของ space-time -1,2,3 11. ข่าวใหม่ / 3D printing ข้อใดไม่จริง A บริษัทโชว์ 3D ปรินต์ใช้วัสดุที่ทำจาก asteroid B 4D print เปลี่ยนรูปร่างได้ / แรงบันดาลใจจากกลีบกล้วยไม้ C เทคโนโลยี 3D Bio-print ปรินต์เซลออกมาเป็นปอด และผ่าตัดเปลี่ยนใส่ให้คนไข้ได้สำเร็จเป็นครั้งแรก D ทีมวิจัยสร้างหัวปรินต์จิ๋ว 3D microprint ความละเอียด 800 nm/pixel ปรินต์วั...

After getting separated from his family, an Apatosaurus named Arlo goes on a journey home with an unlikely human friend. We also discuss the Zootopia trailer.

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review The Good Dinosaur. Directed by Peter Sohn. With Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, and Maleah Nipay-Padilla. An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Stephen Miller Featured Review: • The Good Dinosaur The Verdict: • Stephen: Must Avoid • Christopher: Must Avoid Music for this Episode: • The Good Dinosaur (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Contact the show: • email: fans@thespoilerwarning.com • voicemail: 1 (760) 575-4879

Episode Description: In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review The Good Dinosaur. Directed by Peter Sohn. With Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, and Maleah Nipay-Padilla. An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. Show Notes Hosts: • Christopher Schnese with Stephen Miller Featured Review: • The Good Dinosaur The Verdict: • Stephen: Must Avoid • Christopher: Must Avoid Music for this Episode: • The Good Dinosaur (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Contact the show: • email: fans@thespoilerwarning.com • voicemail: 1 (760) 575-4879

In this exclusive SoundWorks Collection sound profile Jon Burlingame talks with Composers Mychael and Jeff Danna about their recent work on the Pixar film The Good Dinosaur. In this enchanting computer-animated fantasy set in a world where dinosaurs never became extinct, an amiable young Apatosaurus named Arlo (voiced by Raymond Ochoa) befriends a prehistoric human child (voiced by Jack Bright) while he attempts to reunite with his dinosaur family. Arlo lost his father in a storm and was swept away by a vicious river current, stranding him in a frightening new place, making him desperate to get back home. Peter Sohn directs this heartwarming Pixar adventure, with Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, Anna Paquin and Sam Elliott also contributing voice work.

Tracey Logan takes us back to the wild west of America, and looks at the extraordinary feud that came to be known as the Bone Wars. This is a tale of corruption, bribery and sabotage - not by cowboys, but by two palaeontologists, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, who would stop at nothing in their race to find new dinosaur fossils. This was the golden age of dinosaur discovery, and their bitter war led to the discovery of some of our most iconic dinosaur species: Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Diplodocus and Camarasuarus to name a few. What led these two seemingly respectable men of science to behave in such an unseemly way, and what was the legacy of this now infamous feud? Tracey Logan investigates. (Photo: Drawing of Apatosaurus dinosaur, BBC Copyright)

After more than a hundred years, Brontosaurus is a dinosaur again. And once again, taxonomy is hard. The Dutch are the tallest people on the planet, but it wasn't always so. The average adult height in the Netherlands has increased by 20 centimetres in the past 150 years, and a new study looks at the possible reasons why. A one thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon recipe for a treatment for an infected eyelash follicle has been found to be surprisingly effective against the superbug MRSA. The remarkably complete skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis, known as "Lucy" is probably the world's most famous early human fossil. But a new look at the skeleton has found that the skeleton isn't all Lucy -

The Brontosaurus is a well known dinosaur, which was soon after discovery relegated to an incorrect synonym: its species had already been described elsewhere and named Apatosaurus. But new evidence suggests that the Brontosaurus is a genuine species of Diplodocid, and is once more recognised as a valid taxon for a real exitinct species.Mice are certainly not extinct, and while we may have been taught that to be really quiet is to be as quiet as a mouse, but they certainly make enough noise to attract the attention of other mice. Ultrasonic songs inaudible to the human ear vary between mouse breeds, and in certain circumstances. Male mice call to female mice with songs of varying duration and complexity depending how far away they are.And back to the subject of extinction, Tamsania's Swift Parrot is in danger of being wiped out due to habitat loss in its natural territories. We find out how we can donate directly to a program to help reverse their decline.

Brontosaurus was an extinct name for an extinct animal, but a new study brings the “Thunder Lizard” title roaring back to life! But how does a name get dropped, and how does it get brought back again? Follow us into the winding world of paleontology taxonomy, the study of names. In the 1870s two giant hip […] The post News Bite: Brontosaurus revived! appeared first on Past Time Paleo.

This year sees the GSA celebrate its 125th anniversary, having formed in  1888. It's a massive event with thousands of attendees. There are literally hundreds of talks to hear and posters to see, so we're hoping to bring just a sample of it to you. Each day we’ll be posting interviews and pictures from the conference, giving you a flavour of what it’s like to attend.