Podcasts about sauropods

Ray and Dave talk Sauropods, Smilodons, and Spielberg with artist and paleo visionary Mark Hallett, whose decades of work bring ancient worlds to life.

Susan Butts joins us to explain all the changes and upgrades at the newly renovated Yale Peabody Museum! Plus, new sauropods from Argentina include Campananeyen and a couple of unnamed titanosauriforms. And Australotitan may be a junior synonym.For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Ruyangosaurus, links from Susan Butts, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Ruyangosaurus-Episode-509/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Ruyangosaurus, a very large titanosauriform sauropod from the Early Cretaceous.Interview with Susan Butts, the Director of Collections & Research at the Yale Peabody Museum and her background is as an invertebrate paleontologistIn dinosaur news this week:There's a new rebbachisaurid, Campananeyen fragilissimusThere are new titanosauriform sauropods in the Portezuelo Formation of PatagoniaAustralotitan (a.k.a.) “Cooper” may be a junior synonym of the sauropod Diamantinasaurus This episode is brought to you by Brilliant, the app with thousands of bite-sized, interactive lessons on cutting-edge topics. Anyone interested in paleontology will particularly like their courses in chemistry, which underlie the fossilization process, as well as data analysis, used to model dinosaur populations. Start your 30-day free trial today! Plus, I Know Dino subscribers can get an extra 20% off a premium annual subscription here.You can win a large Spinosaurus tooth, fossilized leaf, and more by winning our Di-Know-It-All Challenge! This week you can enter at bit.ly/dinochallenge508 and if you're a patron you can answer the patron question at patreon.com/posts/110493197. Get your answers in by 8/31/2024 at 11:59pm PDT! All the rules for the challenge are at bit.ly/dinochallenge24See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We've made plenty of jokes over the years about the general lack of sauropod skulls and the frustrations of trying to work out what these animals were doing when it came to things like feeding when the most important bit is missing. Happily, this week we are joined by David Button who has done a ton of work in this area and is happy to chat to Dave and Iszi about how their heads and teeth were built and what this can (and can't) tell us about their diets and habits. While we have him trapped, we also quiz him on his recent work on the behaviour of the thescelosaurs, an odd branch of dinosaurs we've taken till series 10 to even mention!   Links: Extra content on patreon: www.patreon.com/terriblelizards And old post of Dave's on the sauropod skeletons in Berlin, that really show off the issue of different feeding heights in these animals: https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/berlin-sauropods/ David's webpage at the University of Bristol: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/david-j-button

Sauropods were the longest, tallest, and heaviest animals to ever walk the Earth. What adaptations did they have to get so large? And which dinosaurs were the largest in other groups?For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Uberabatitan, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Uberabatitan-Episode-486/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Uberabatitan, A giant titanosaur that may have had the largest teeth of any known sauropod.In dinosaur news this week:Sauropods grew to be the largest land animals of all time with many special adaptations that helped them reach "super giant" sizesBruhathkayosaurus may have been the heaviest land animal of all time with weight estimates from 80–190 tonnesSauroposeidon may be the tallest sauropod (and land animal) of all time—with Giraffatitan proportions bringing it to about 17m (56ft) tallSauropod babies were already built to grow largeIt's not just sauropods that had special adaptations to grow so large—Theropods had them tooEarly sauropod ancestors evolved very rapid growth before they evolved gigantic sizesA new study found 36 unique times that sauropods evolved gigantismA hadrosaur long thought to be an island dwarf turned out to just be young and was still growingYou can dig up real dinosaur bones this summer with Colorado Northwestern Community College! Join them for a two week immersive field paleontology experience digging up dinosaur bones from the Jurassic period in Northwest Colorado. There are two scheduled digs: July 6–July 20 and July 22–August 5. There are also two concurrent immersive lab techniques programs available. Get all the details and register online at cncc.edu/dinodigSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Join us as we talk with Museum Educator Ashley Hall about her career as a museum educator at the Museum of the Rockies, her research on Sauropod feet and her books including Fossils for Kids: A Junior Scientist's Guide to Dinosaur Bones and Ancient Animals, and Prehistoric Life on Earth and Prehistoric Worlds: Stomp Into the Epic Lands Ruled by Dinosaurs (due out at the end of March 2024).   Ashley is a dynamic paleontologist, naturalist, and museum educator. Originally from South Bend, Indiana, she grew up loving dinosaurs from an early age and was inspired by holiday trips to Chicago's Field Museum to pursue a career in natural history. Ashley earned her Bachelor of Arts in anthropology (focus: Zooarchaeology) and animal behavior from Indiana University, Bloomington. After graduation, she spent nearly a decade working as a science educator for various educational institutions in southern California, including the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and the La Brea Tar Pits. During this time, Ashley also served as the assistant curator of paleontology at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology in Claremont, California. While with the “Alf,” she managed the fossil collection and participated in fieldwork including Late Cretaceous dinosaur excavations in the Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah and Miocene mammal reconnaissance paleontology in the Mojave Desert's Rainbow Basin. Ashley relocated to Ohio where she worked as a naturalist for the Cleveland Metroparks reservation system before taking a position with the Cleveland Museum of Natural as the adult programs coordinator.  When Ashley is not educating the public in person, she is an active science communicator on social media. Ashley has presented several invited workshops on communicating science through social media at professional, scientific meetings, including the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and the Association for Materials and Methods in Paleontology annual conferences. Her scientific research has focused on sauropod claw morphology and function and the evolution of birds from deposits at the La Brea Tar Pits.

In todays episode Grace comes on the show and talks about what she does, Sauropods, and the prehistoric world, and I just wanted to say thank you so much for coming on the show and talking with all of us. Remember go support Grace too @grace.o.saurus IF YOU GO ON ONE OF THE TRIPS FOR FOSSIL TRIPS Tell them you hear about them from Prehistoric Life Podcast and they will give you $250 off your tickets. Remember to follow me at Prehistoric_Life_Podcast on instagram and check out the new website PrehistoricLifePodcast.com and on youtube @prehistoric life podcast

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“One of the largest sauropods ever recorded” and a contender for the largest rebbachisaurid were both found in Argentina. Plus a new titanosaur from China. And Cary Woodruff joins to discuss his recent finds and plans for a new permanent dinosaur exhibit in Miami, FloridaFor links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Hungarosaurus, links from Cary Woodruff, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Hungarosaurus-Episode-479/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Hungarosaurus, .Interview with Cary Woodruff. Cary is the Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science in Miami, Florida. Follow him on twitter @DoubleBeam and check out his papers on Research Gate.In dinosaur news this week:A new rebbachisaurid sauropod, Sidersaura marae, had star shaped bones in its tail and lived alongside ArgentinosaurusA new titanosaur named Gandititan cavocaudatus was found with a skull and 6 articulated neck vertebraeA new enormous titanosaur, Bustingorrytitan shiva, is estimated to have weighed over 70 tons This episode is brought to you by our patrons. Their generous contributions make our podcast possible! You can join our community, help us keep the show going, and get hundreds of hours of premium content, for $9/month as an annual member. Go to Patreon.com/join/iknowdino for details and to sign up.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

There's nothing better than some delicious grubs to help feed your mind during a prehistoric podcast. Am I right?! Well maybe not, but Jurassic World is still known for the Nigersaurus & as Dr. Alan Grant once said some west African frogs. Our next dinosaur genus had a snout made up of 500 teeth. Its even been described as a mix between Darth Vader & a lawn mower. Regardless, it was definitely out of this yard for a sauropod. Let's begin our next review. Yum, yum!!

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Priconodon, links from Brian Curtice, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Priconodon-Episode-441/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Priconodon, An Early Cretaceous North American nodosaurid with large teeth—which is why its name means "saw coned tooth".Interview with Brian Curtice, a paleontologist who has studied dinosaurs on 6 continents and lectured all over the world. He's a sauropod specialist and the founder of Fossil Crates, PaleoPortals, and Express Exhibits.In dinosaur news this week:New Antarctic osteoderms helps show how nodosaurids survived in such a hostile environment.A Diamantinasaurus skull helps show the connection between titanosaurs on multiple continentsThis episode is brought to you by Exquisite Eons. Explore their complete collection of brooches, desk ornaments, Marvelously Mesozoic Notecards, and Fabulous Fossil Journal at https://exquisiteeons.com/ And don't forget to enter to win their Sterling Silver Triceratops brooch at bit.ly/eetriceratopsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Did you hear that sound? I think it's an... AVALANCHE… or maybe it's just a herd of giant sauropods. Our next review is all about a genus that was once the longest dinosaur to ever roam the Earth. It may have even been longer than the famous Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Okay, well maybe not that long, but you get the point right?! Let's grab our moutain gear & stomp up the trail for a better review of this double beamed lizard. Listen Now!!

Sauropods in general don't get the love they should on Terrible Lizards because, well, Dave doesn't know that much about them (and everyone knows theropods are best anyways). However, there's more than a couple that are both well-known enough in general and Dave know a bit about them that we can talk for a decent amount of time. Step forward the long-neckiest of the long-necked sauropods, Mamenchisaurus. This odd (even by sauropod standards) animal is found in a number of different sites from the Middle Jurassic of China but has not had all the research attention that it should for a such an interesting animal that's known from a good amount of material and a time where dinosaur remains are generally sparse. Happily, a major new study is out on these animals which adds some nice new information and potentially resolves some longstanding issues with this awesome genus so buckle up for some important tales of neck elongation in the Mesozoic.    Links: A very short blogpost by Dave with a photo of the mounted Bellusaurs skeleton:  https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/bellusaurus/   And a post on the insanely long Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum cervical rib: https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/biggest-bones/ 

This week we're talking about one of our favourite sauropods, the Diplodocus! Listen to learn more about this very long dinosaur, its habitat, what it ate, and why it may have needed such a long neck and tail!  If you'd like to support the show, please check out our merch store over on Etsy where we sell adorable animal stickers and postcards. Don't forget to subscribe and leave us a rating and review. To stay up to date and see our weekly episode illustrations, make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter. And don't forget to check out our TikTok! Beyond Blathers is hosted and produced by Olivia deBourcier and Sofia Osborne, with art by Olivia deBourcier and music by Max Hoosier. This podcast is not associated with Animal Crossing or Nintendo, we just love this game.

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Camarillasaurus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Camarillasaurus-Episode-428/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Camarillasaurus, a spinosaurid that lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Teruel Province, Spain.In dinosaur news this week:Two new dinosaurs, the sauropod Khanazeem and the theropod Shansaraiki, were recently (mostly) described from PakistanThe first basal Iguanodontian from Southern China, Napaisaurus, was recently describedA hiker found sauropod bones in the Royal Gorge Region of Colorado“Big John” the Triceratops is going to the Glazer Children's Museum in Tampa, Florida We're very close to reaching our goal of 250 patrons! When we hit the goal we'll be releasing bonus ad-free episodes every month to patrons at our Triceratops tier and up. Join our patreon to help us reach our goal! You can join the Triceratops tier for $9.99/mo (or $8.99/mo if you pay for a year) at patreon.com/iknowdinoTell us what you think about our show in our 2023 Year End Survey! We want our show to be as enjoyable as possible, and your input will help us improve. Head to bit.ly/ikdsurvey23 to help shape the future of I Know Dino!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Everything is bigger in Texas... even the Sauropods. Our next genus, the Alamosaurus, could grow to nearly 100 feet in length making it one of the largest dinosaurs who roamed North America. It's even bigger than the old spanish mission in San Antonio, whom most people think is how this dinosaur received its name. Grab your gear & let's head on inside... the Alamo!!

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!!

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The time has finally come for our fourth Prehistoric Cage Match!! Which dinosaur family will reign supreme and become the next Dinosaur Review for Kids champion. It's the Brachiosaurus of the Sauropods vs the Giganotosaurus of the Theropods. Listen Now!!

The Brachiosaurus herd is migrating into the Dinosaur Review for Kids podcast. This long neck dinosaur had a giraffe-like stance and a nose on its forehead. Let's all reach our arms high up into the sky just like this gigantic sauropod. It's time for this big review!!Print off your free dinosaur review for kids scorecard here: www.stompchomproar.com/post/the-dinosaur-review-for-kids-podcast

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Dystrophaeus, links from Jason Schein and Jason Poole, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Dystrophaeus-Episode-385/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Dystrophaeus, a Sauropod from the Morrison Formation that was described by Cope in 1877.Interview with Jason Schein and Jason Poole, Jason Schein is the author and Jason Poole is the illustrator of Dinosaurs Behaving Badly, a coloring book that is also full of the latest information about dinosaur behavior. Jason Schein is also the founder of the nonprofit Bighorn Basin Paleontological Institute and Jason Poole is a paleoartist whose work has been featured in National Geographic, scientific publications, and museums.In dinosaur news this week:A new Early Jurassic thyreophoran, Yuxisaurus, looks like ankylosaurs from the CretaceousScientists rediscovered an ankylosaur skull and fossils that had been found in Queensland, AustraliaResearchers identified a new type of hadrosaur scale from skin impressionsScientists re-examined Haestasaurus skin and found scales and structures that looked somewhat like goosebumpsA team of researchers found a Gryposaurus bonebed in the Oldman Formation in Alberta, CanadaSir David Attenborough's latest documentary series, Prehistoric Planet, debuts on Apple Plus on May 23David Attenborough also has a BBC documentary, Dinosaurs: The Final Day, airing April 15BBC has another documentary, called Fanastic Beasts: A Natural History, that's out now To thank all of our patrons, we're doing a Patreon Question and Answer episode! Make sure to get your questions in before April, 19th. You can post your questions in the announcements channel on our Discord server, or comment them on Patreon.com/iknowdinoSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Adeopapposaurus, links from Thomas Halliday, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Adeopapposaurus-Episode-384/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Adeopapposaurus, a sauropodomorph that lived in the Early Jurassic in what is now San Juan, Argentina.Interview with Thomas Halliday, paleobiologist who specializes in mammal evolution and phylogenetics. His research also includes renaissance paleontology, faunal networks, and decolonizing paleontology. And he is the author of the book, “Otherlands: A World in the Making”In dinosaur news this week:New Early Cretaceous tracks from Spain show theropods running nearly 30 miles per hourA new study found that sauropods walked in a diagonal couplet patternA model of Thecodontosaurus helps to show how sauropods shifted from bipedal to quadrupedalHundreds of dinosaur fossils and footprints have been found in a clay mine in Mazovia, PolandThe Bureau of Land Management released a report on the damaged dinosaur tracks from Mill Canyon, UtahThe Natural History Museum in London is looking for a partner to display DippyThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis has a new Dinosphere showThe Dinosaur Place at Nature's Art Village in Oakdale, Connecticut opened for the seasonDinosaur Kingdom park is now planned to open in Monroe, New JerseyA shopping center in Livingston Scotland has multiple dinosaurs made of about half a million LEGO bricksNicolas Cage hasn't been refunded for the Tarbosaurus skull he bought at auction that was repatriated to Mongolia To thank all of our patrons, we're doing a Patreon Question and Answer episode! Make sure to get your questions in before April, 19th. You can post your questions in the announcements channel on our Discord server, or comment them on Patreon.com/iknowdinoSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode I will be interviewing mo to find out more about sauropods for this episode.

So far, only a handful of scattered eggshells had been found in our beautiful lush country, but everything changed recently when an exquisitely well-preserved nest was found, revealing the Titanosaurus' secrets on how to thrive in deserts and how to be a successful species even when most of your clade has already gone extinct. Follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jurassic_fans_podcast/ Music in this audio - Song 02 Theme From Jurassic Park from Jur - Universal Pictures Film Music Album Jurassic Park Writers John Williams --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jurassicfansofficial/message

Herbivores can in some ways wreck humanity better than carnivores can. Today Joe, Jacob and Klayton Fioriti will discuss 4 groups of dinosaurs (Sauropods, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurs, and Ceratopsians) and find out the many ways these things will drive humanity to complete disaster one day at a time. We had a lot of fun on this one and so will you! Make sure to follow GojiCenter, Dangerville, and Klayton Fioriti on YouTube! 

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,

Thanks to Page for suggesting we talk about penguins this week! A big birthday shout-out to EllieHorseLover this week too! Further reading: March of the penguins (in Norway) Rare Yellow Penguin Bewilders Scientists Giant Waikato penguin: school kids discover new species An ordinary king penguin with the rare "yellow" king penguin spotted in early 2021 (photo by Yves Adams, taken from article linked above): Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I'm your host, Kate Shaw. I was looking over the ideas list recently and noticed that Page had suggested we cover a specific bird way back in 2020! It's about time we get to it, so thanks to Page we're going to learn about penguins this week, including a penguin mystery. But first, we have a birthday shout-out! Happy birthday to EllieHorseLover, whose birthday comes right before next week's episode comes out. Have a fantastic birthday, Ellie, and I agree with you about horses. They are awesome and so are you. Also, a quick correction from last week's episode about Dolly the dinosaur. If you listened to episode 264 the day it came out, you heard the incorrect version, but I was able to correct it and upload the new version late that day. Many thanks to Llewelly, who pointed out that Dolly hasn't actually been identified as a Diplodocus, just as a sauropod in the family Diplodocidae. Paleontologists are still studying the fossil and probably will be for some time. Also, I said that sauropods aren't related to birds but that's not the case. Sauropods share a common ancestor with birds and that's why they both have the same kind of unusual respiratory system. So, speaking of birds, it's time to learn about penguins! We've talked about penguins twice before, but not recently at all. It's about time we really dug into the topic. Penguins live in the southern hemisphere, including Antarctica. The only exception is the Galapagos penguin, which we talked about in episode 99, which lives just north of the equator. Penguins are considered aquatic birds because they're so well adapted to swimming and they spend most of their time in the ocean finding food. Instead of wings, their front limbs are flippers that they use to maneuver in the water. They're incredibly streamlined too, with a smooth, dense coat of feathers to help keep them warm in cold water without slowing them down. One of the ways a penguin keeps from freezing in the bitterly cold winters of Antarctica and in cold water is by a trick of anatomy that most other animals don't have. The artery that supplies blood to the flippers crosses over the veins that return blood from the flippers deeper into the body. The arterial blood is warm since it's been through the body's core, but the blood that has just traveled through the flippers has lost a lot of heat. Because the veins and the arteries cross several times, the cold venal blood is warmed by the warm arterial blood where the blood vessels touch, which means the blood returning into the body's core is warm enough that it doesn't chill the body. Penguins groom their feathers carefully to keep them clean and spread oil over them. The oil and the feathers' nanostructures keep them from icing over when a penguin gets out of the water in sub-zero temperatures. The feathers are not only super-hydrophobic, meaning they repel water, their structure acts as an anti-adhesive. That means ice can't stick to the feathers no matter how cold it is. In 2016 researchers created a nanofiber membrane that repels water and ice with the same nanostructures found in penguin feathers. It could eventually be used to ice-proof electrical wires and airplane wings. Penguin feathers also trap a thin layer of air, which helps the penguin stay buoyant in the water and helps keep its skin warm and dry. While a penguin is awkward on land, it's fast and agile in the water. It mostly eats small fish, squid and other cephalopods, krill and other crustaceans,

This week we answer a question you probably didn't ask, did dinosaurs ever get sick? The answer is yes (or else it would be a super short episode). (Thanks to Llewelly for some corrections!) A big birthday shout-out to Gwendolyn! Have a great birthday! The unlocked Patreon episode about green puppies Further reading: Researchers discover first evidence indicating dinosaur respiratory infection Sauro-throat, Part 3: what does Dolly's disease tell us about sauropods? Dinosaurs got cancer Giant Dinosaur Had 2 Tumors on Its Tailbone Dinosaurs got sick, too--but from what? cough cough: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I'm your host, Kate Shaw. This week we have a dinosaur episode, but not one you may expect. We're going to learn about some dinosaur fossils found with evidence of sickness to answer the question, did dinosaurs get sick? Yes, they did. Otherwise this episode would be about two minutes long. I know some people get squicked when they hear about illness and disease, so I've also unlocked a Patreon episode about puppies that are born green. Don't worry, the puppies are fine! There's a link in the show notes so you can click through and listen to the episode on your browser, no login needed. Before we get to the dinosaurs, we have a birthday shout-out! Happy birthday to Gwendolyn, who is turning two years old this week! Oh my gosh, Gwendolyn, you're going to learn so many new things this year! I hope you have a wonderful birthday. And now, the dinosaurs. Just a few days ago as this episode goes live, researchers announced that they'd found the fossilized remains of a young sauropod dinosaur. It lived around 150 million years ago in what is now the United States, specifically in southwestern Montana. The fossil was nicknamed Dolly by the paleontologists who studied it. Dolly was a sauropod in the family Diplodocidae, and like other sauropods the Diplodocids all had huge neck vertebrae because their necks were so long. The bones weren't solid, though, but contained air sacs that made the bones lighter and also connected to the respiratory system. This is the case in birds too. Technically the air sacs in the bones are called pneumatic diverticula, but that's hard to say so I'm just going to call them air sacs. When a bird breathes, instead of its lungs inflating and deflating, the air sacs throughout its body and bones inflate and deflate. This pumps fresh air through the lungs and allows the bird to absorb a lot more oxygen with every breath than most mammals can. The bones of Dolly's neck had unusual bony protrusions around the spaces where the air sacs once were. When the paleontologists made a CT scan of the protrusions they discovered they were abnormal bone growths that probably resulted from an infection. Sauropods share a common ancestor with birds and researchers think they might have sometimes caught a respiratory illness similar to aspergillosis [asper-jill-OH-sus], a disease common in birds and reptiles today. Dolly would have had a fever, difficulty breathing, coughing, a sore throat, and other symptoms familiar to us as flu-like or pneumonia-like. Aspergillosis can be fatal in birds, so this respiratory infection might have actually been what killed Dolly. I think we can all agree that the worst symptom to have as a sauropod, whose necks were as much as 30 feet long, or 9 meters, is a sore throat. That's not the only indication of illness in a dinosaur fossil, of course. A 2003 paper published in Nature detailed the results of a study where paleontologists scanned 10,000 dinosaur vertebrae from over 700 animals to see if any of them showed tumors. They found 97 individuals that did, all of them from around 70 million years ago and all of them hadrosaurs. Those are the duck-billed dinosaurs that were common in the late Cretaceous in many parts of the world, especially in what is now North America and Asia.

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Sign up for our mailing list! We also have t-shirts and mugs with our logo! Here we go. It's the big one, the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event! Further reading: How Birds Survived the Asteroid Impact That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs How an asteroid ended the age of dinosaurs Extinction event that wiped out dinosaurs cleared way for frogs How life blossomed after the dinosaurs died 66-million-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I'm your host, Kate Shaw. Here it is, the extinction event episode that everyone's been waiting for, or at least that everyone knows about. It's the one that killed off the dinosaurs and ushered in the age of mammals. It's probably the one we know most about and it's certainly the one we have the most paintings of, usually of a T. rex staring into the sky at an approaching comet. In episode 227 we talked about the end-Permian extinction event, which took place about 250 million years ago. The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, or end-Cretaceous, took place just over 66 million years ago, which means that for almost 200 million years there was more or less smooth sailing in the world. Dinosaurs evolved during that time, and I think we can all agree that dinosaurs are fascinating animals. The largest terrestrial animals ever to live were dinosaurs, specifically the sauropods. Sauropods were just unimaginably huge. They were like walking buildings that ate plants, and even that doesn't give a good idea of their size. Some sauropods had extremely long tails as well as very long necks, which increased their length. Right now the largest sauropod known was probably Argentinosaurus that might have grown as long as 118 feet, or 36 meters, but paleontologists keep finding bigger and bigger sauropods. Some sauropods had extremely long necks that they held up like a giraffe. The tallest was probably Barosaurus, estimated as being 72 feet tall, or 22 meters. And we won't even get into estimates of how much these massive animals weighed. They make the biggest elephant that ever lived look like a toy elephant. Sauropods ate plants, with the low-necked species eating low-growing plants and the high-necked species eating tree leaves, although even saying that much is controversial. There's a lot we don't know about sauropods in general, since most sauropod fossils are incomplete and many species are only known from one or a few bones. But we do know some surprising things about sauropods. We have a lot of sauropod tracks, which helps us understand how their feet looked and whether they had claws, but it also tells us that some species of sauropod traveled in herds. Paleontologists do generally agree that many sauropods migrated, since animals that big would soon exhaust all the food in one area if they didn't. Sauropods were extremely successful and lived all over the world. There were plenty of sauropods alive 66 ½ million years ago, and then…there were no sauropods alive ever again. These days, there's so much evidence that a massive asteroid killed off the dinosaurs that pretty much everyone agrees, but when the idea was first proposed in 1980, it was extremely controversial. When I was a kid I remember reading dinosaur books that still said the extinction of the dinosaurs was a mystery but that many scientists thought it was due to disease or volcanoes. The asteroid strike hypothesis was proposed by the physicist Luis Alvarez and his son, Walter. They worked with a small team of other scientists, including two chemists, Helen Michel and Frank Asaro, to investigate a strange anomaly in rock strata. Rocks dating to the end of the Cretaceous period and the beginning of the Paleogene period are separated by a thin layer of clay that's visible throughout the world, or at least wherever the rocks remain and can be examined. It's called the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, or K-Pg boundary,

We continue to discuss sauropods and in this episode we hit on their diet, why they got so big, their reproduction and young, as well as detailing a handful of the record-holders. See these Kurzgesagt videos for help understanding the size of life: https://youtu.be/f7KSfjv4Oq0 and https://youtu.be/MUWUHf-rzks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unschoolingwithkai/message

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Ash and Cory talk about the cutest part of Sauropods, their itty bitty heads which as it turns out hide some disturbing facts.

Ash and Cory begin the first in a recurring series about the giant long necked SAUROPODS and talk about the 1st dinosaur movie ever: Gertie the Dinosaur (or Dinosaurus? We'll see.)

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Velafrons, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Velafrons-Episode-324/To get access to lots of patron only content check out https://www.patreon.com/iknowdinoDinosaur of the day Velafrons, a lambeosaurine hadrosaurid from Mexico with a crest similar to Corythosaurus.In dinosaur news this week:A new mamenchisaurid species, Omeisaurus puxiani, was described from China with a nearly complete spineA small titanosaur, Garrigatitan meridionalis, was described from Southern FranceA turiasaur, Narindasaurus thevenini, was named from a 100+ year old find in MadagascarA four year old found a Triassic dinosaur footprint in WalesSome are criticizing the move to make Suciasaurus rex the official Washington state dinosaur, but not because it's an invalid genusThe Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History has a new exhibit, Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and IceYou can rent a full size skeletal replica of the Mukawa-ryu dinosaur (Kamuysaurus) in HokkaidoMassachusetts now has an official state dinosaur, Podokesaurus holyokensisA new dinosaur park builder Dinosaur Park: Primeval Zoo was released on AndroidSomeone reimagined the trailer for Jurassic Park, and replaced all the dinosaurs with Pee-wee HermanJurassic World: Camp Cretaceous includes a hint at a new (probably frozen) dinosaur known as "Specimen E750"

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Aardonyx, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Aardonyx-Episode-320/To get access to lots of patron only content check out https://www.patreon.com/iknowdinoDinosaur of the day Aardonyx, an Early Jurassic sauropodomorph from South Africa with the beginning signs of a quadrupedal gait.In dinosaur news this week:Kholumolumo, a new Triassic sauropodomorph from Lesotho, was one of the heaviest land animals of its time.Massachusetts may have a new dinosaur soon and you can vote for your favoriteSchenectady, New York has a new animatronic dinosaur display in a mallA dad bought his son a 2 ton Carnotaurus-like dinosaur sculpture for ChristmasA new VR game for Oculus Quest (only) called Jurassic World Aftermath was released

Argentinosaurus is considered by many to be the largest land animal that ever lived. In this episode Dinosaur George will teach you many exciting facts about these huge Sauropods! In the "Ask Dinosaur George" segment he answers questions submitted by listeners, and then sets up some battles in the "Who Would Win" segment. And finally we close with an interview of one of our Tyrannosaurus club members.

Today, Matt schools me on the evolution of grass with reference to when the dinosaurs existed.Sources:Controversial T. Rex Soft Tissue Find Finally Explained: https://bit.ly/38bDgq4A fossil protein chimera; difficulties in discriminating dinosaur peptide sequences from modern cross-contamination: http://bit.ly/2KMnV6VMechanisms of soft tissue and protein preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex: https://go.nature.com/3duNdB1Bones of contention: https://bit.ly/38eIAc7Evidence of proteins, chromosomes and chemical markers of DNA in exceptionally preserved dinosaur cartilage: https://bit.ly/3gVzt46Genome-centric resolution of novel microbial lineages in an excavated Centrosaurus dinosaur fossil bone from the Late Cretaceous of North America: https://bit.ly/3r65lHVDung Reveals Dinosaurs Ate Grass: https://bit.ly/3amkYoLEvolutionary History of the Grasses: http://bit.ly/2K9WdRhMatt Wedel: Hunting the inflatable dinosaur: https://bit.ly/2K5wSsrReassessment of the Evidence for Postcranial Skeletal Pneumaticity in Triassic Archosaurs, and the Early Evolution of the Avian Respiratory System: https://bit.ly/38fVNBjYouTube Playlist for this series: https://bit.ly/3alyvwPOriginal Video: https://bit.ly/2Ia6r3D

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Genyodectes, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Genyodectes-Episode-318/To get access to lots of patron only content check out https://www.patreon.com/iknowdinoDinosaur of the day Genyodectes, The first theropod described from South America.In dinosaur news this week:An extinction event in the Early Jurassic may have led to the dominance of Eusauropods, including the recently named BagualiaThe new Triassic theropod Erythrovenator was found in Southern BrazilIn Rapid City South Dakota, Dinosaur Hill is getting renovated to become more accessibleNew graphic novel coming out next July called Operation Dragon featuring a Japanese-trained dinosaur army

In this christmas present episode, I discuss the most iconic family of dinosaurs

Piecing together the early lives of dinosaurs is difficult due to a lack of fossils from juvenile and embryonic stages. In this episode, Elsa Panciroli talks to Dr Kimi Chappelle, a postdoctoral fellow at the Evolutionary Studies Institute, part of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Chappelle specialises in sauropodomorphs – the precursors of the giant sauropod dinosaurs like Diplodocus. Her recent work is helping build a picture of their growth and development. Chappelle is a champion of South African palaeontology and nominated as one of the Mail and Guardian’s top 200 young South Africans in Science and Technology. With her colleagues she has published a stunning new study of sauropodomorph embryos from a fossil nest site in South Africa. This new paper visualises and describes their tiny skulls using synchrotron scan data. These fossils provide new information on dinosaur developmental processes, and places South African fossils at the heart of our understanding of their early evolution. Chappelle also talks about the latest work she’s involved with in Zimbabwe, and future research into the growth patterns of the largest dinosaurs to have ever lived.

Is there a group of dinosaurs more iconic than sauropods? Famous for their ridiculously long necks, their global success, their astounding diversity, and of course for their unparalleled size, sauropods have fascinated and puzzled people for centuries. In this episode, we’ll explore what makes sauropods and their ancestors special, and we’ll talk a bit about how they functioned at truly colossal scales. In the news: strange-jawed sharks, ancient walruses, dinosaur demise, and the oldest blindsnakes. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00 News: 00:07:00 Main discussion, Part 1: 00:38:30 Main discussion, Part 2: 01:04:30 Patron question: 01:42:00 Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures: http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Submit your questions for our End of the Year Q&A using this form: https://forms.gle/2BDWts2RaKzRo3hL8 Find merch at the Common Descent Store! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast Instagram: @commondescentpodcast PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org. Musical Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

It the end of series questions episode. This time Iszi and Dave... well Dave mainly answer Patrons' Dinosaur questions. Including How would dinosaur evolution panned out if the asteroid had missed? Could sauropods swim? Is the Blue Whale REALLY larger than dinosaurs? Were there dinosaur KT extinction survivors in Antarctica? The 'Friends' question... Velociraptor toe functionality... Bird Brains... How do we differentiate species? And if we know anything about how social dinosaurs were? With massive thanks to all out patrons,and especially Geraint Lewis, Shala Howell, Eric Farenger, Gutza1, Joe McLachlan, Javaraptor (G Hancock), Andrew White, Aisling Spain and Richard Bald.  Iszi Lawrence's book The Unstoppable Letty Pegg is now available as an Audiobook on Audible www.iszi.com/book Please fill in Dave's Impact Survery: https://www.davehone.co.uk/outreach/impact-survey/

Craig loves dinosaurs, so Andrew let him talk for an hour about Steve Brusatte's recent book for dino devotees. Time to talk T-Rexes, Sauropods, and graphic depictions of the end of the world with our live Patreon chat.Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.Special thanks to the Patreon supporters who joined us in the live chat. For more info on how to participate in bonus episode recordings, head to patreon.com/overduepod.

Craig loves dinosaurs, so Andrew let him talk for an hour about Steve Brusatte's recent book for dino devotees. Time to talk T-Rexes, Sauropods, and graphic depictions of the end of the world with our live Patreon chat.Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.Special thanks to the Patreon supporters who joined us in the live chat. For more info on how to participate in bonus episode recordings, head to patreon.com/overduepod.

Hey guys i have some really cool finds here. Have you ever held a REAL Sauropod fossil in your hand? or a triceratops? Me Either...until now! Listen in as Cdale Enick of Fallen Hour Radio Talks about Sauropods Triceratops and many more dinosaur creatures! Season 2 of the Stones and bones Podcast starts now! Shop from home! visit Stones-Bones.com Watch the video version of this podcast Links Below! Facebook @StonesandBonesBillings --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Hypsibema, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Hypsibema-Episode-269/To get access to lots of patron only content check out https://www.patreon.com/iknowdinoDinosaur of the day Hypsibema, a massive hadrosauroid and the state dinosaur of Missouri.In dinosaur news this week:The new sauropod Itapeuasaurus was found on a beach in northern BrazilFushanosaurus was named from northwest China based on a single massive femurJardin d’Acclimation in Paris, France was covered in dinosaur projectionsTwo Canadian boys welcomed their grandma at the airport while all three dressed up as T. rexDinosaur World is coming to Cerritos, California on March 8Our book 50 Dinosaur Tales is available now! Get the collection of dinosaur stories and facts from recent discoveries by going to bit.ly/iknowdinostore It's available as an audibook, ebook, and paperback.

S3Ep3 - I take a stroll back in time with Austin Nunez of The Dinosaur Park in Cedar Creek, TX. The Dinosaur Park has over 30 full-scale dinosaur models set in the woods along a nature trail! T-Rex, Stegosaur, Diplodocus, Sauropods, Velociraptor and much, much more! www.TheDinoPark.com Sponsors: Berdoll Pecan Candy and Gift Company: www.Berdoll.com Puzzometry: www.Puzzometry.com Theme Music: Two Player. www.TwoPlayerMusic.com www.Luminnovation.com www.twitter.com/Luminnovation www.facebook.com/Luminnovation

Dinosaur of the day Magyarosaurus, an armored dwarf sauropod from a Cretaceous European island.Interview with Philip Mannion, Steve Poropat, and Adele Pentland. Paleontologists at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs museum in Winton, Queensland. We discussed the new sauropods literally coming up out of the ground in the Outback as well as a brand new pterosaur, Ferrodraco.Here is the video of our visit to the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum.In dinosaur news this week:A new small ceratopsian was named Ferrisaurus from northern British Columbia, CanadaA new study shows just how fast dinosaurs could replace their teethThe Cleveland Museum of Natural History has a new exhibit called Ultimate DinosaursThe Natural History Museum in Los Angeles is having an Antarctic Dinosaurs Family DayThis episode is brought to you in part by Why Dinosaurs? The feature length documentary celebrating dinosaurs and the people who love them, created by father and son team Tony and James Pinto, support them and get perks on Indiegogo.To 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 Magyarosaurus, links from Philip Mannion, Steve Poropat, and Adele Pentland, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Magyarosaurus-Episode-262/

Dinosaur of the day Kritosaurus, a hadrosaur that was found over 100 years ago in New Mexico.Interview with Scott Hartman, a paleo artist and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison for the Department of Integrative Biology. He’s done hundreds of skeletal drawings and his work has been featured in books, museums, and academic publications. Follow him on facebook or twitter @skeletaldrawing or skeletaldrawing.comIn dinosaur news this week:News from poster sessions and 2nd day of talks at the 2019 meeting of the Society of Vertebrate PaleontologyEarly Mesozoic herbivores filled in ecological niches that were left because of extinctionsRegurgitalites (fossilized vomit) are out there, and they can give just as much information as coprolites (fossilized poop)Chemical testing of bones is looking to be a promising method of finding lost fossil localitiesScott Hocknull described three successful case studies of getting the public involved with dinosaur discoveries during construction projects and mining operationsStuart Sumida showed an animation of evolution, using a Dimetrodon and other relativesAriel Marcy has a new collaborative game about the scientific method, similar to the game PandemicTaissa Rodrigues taught high schoolers in Brazil about evolution through paleo artEmanuel Tschopp found that sauropods from the Morrison Formation did not overlap as much as previously thoughtKayleigh Wiersma showed that some sauropods may have had beaks in addition to their teethLes Hearn and Amanda Williams published a paper about pain in dinosaurs, and found a lot of dinosaurs survived injuries that would have hurt their mobility and ability to hunt or run away from predatorsThe Field Museum in Chicago has new sensory stations, including one where you can smell Sue the T. rex’s breathThere’s a grassroots effort in Westchester New York to protect land with dinosaur tracks and fossilsAustin, Texas, as a weird neon green dinosaur, known as Mangiasaurus rexSpecial Spaces Cleveland and the Jurassic World Live tour worked together to design a dinosaur bedroom for Ezra Boggs, a 6-year-old with cancerLego has a new 910 piece Dinosaur Fossils setGet our merchandise, on sale for Halloween at bit.ly/iknowdinostoreTo 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 Kritosaurus, links from Scott Hartman, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Kritosaurus-Episode-257/

Dinosaur of the day Dacentrurus, A wide-hipped stegosaur from the Jurassic in England.In dinosaur news this week:The Japanese “Mukawa dinosaur” now has an official name, Kamuysaurus japonicusA new study shows how T. rex warmed up using a specialized area on top of its headBrian Engh used this research to create an amazing thermal-image illustrationA marine turtle that got trampled by a sauropod in what is now SwitzerlandFor those keeping tabs, the Dinosaurs of Utah PDF has been updated to include more species of dinosaurs (now >115)Here’s The Travel’s list of 10 dinosaur places to visitJurassic Park and Jurassic World memorabilia will be auctioned off in LondonCrystal Palace dinosaurs had an open day on September 15Magic Leap recently launched a Dinosaur Kit, which lets you assemble dinosaur skeletons from scattered bones—if you have the $2,000+ headsetA maid of honor wore an inflatable T. rex costume to her sister’s weddingTo 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 Dacentrurus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Dacentrurus-Episode-252/

We tell you about theropods sauropods and prosauropods.And we also get close to the person that had that giant submarine.

Facts About Sauropods! Credits: Executive Producer: Chris Krimitsos Voice: Jimmy Murray "Upbeat Forever", "Winner Winner!" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Facts from Wikipedia Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

SPECIAL GUEST: Ada Klinkhamer (UNE) The enormous, long-necked Sauropods are some of the most iconic dinosaurs, and its no surprise given the almost unfathomable sizes that they grew to. Ada Klinkhamer is a palaeontologist from the University of New England that studies how these ancient beasts could have moved and how their skeletons supported such enormous bodies.  In an interview with In Situ Science Ada chats with us about what its like being a dinosaur detective and piecing together stories about how dinosaurs lived from fragments of information. We also chat about what makes good science fiction and why the latest Jurassic World films just aren't cutting the mustard. Find out more about Ada's research on the Fear Lab Website or follow her on Twitter @ada_klinkhamer Find out more at www.insituscience.com Follow us on twitter @insituscience Follow us on Instagram  http://instagram.com/insituscience  Like us on Facebook Music: ‘Strange Stuff’ by Sonic Wallpaper - www.sonicwallpaper.bandcamp.com  

Sauropods are the most iconic of dinosaurs. They’re the big guys, bigger than any animal alive today. In fact, they were the largest land animals that ever lived, with huge torsos, extremely long necks and tails, and massive legs. Paleontologist Cary Woodruff is going to tell us all about sauropods, from why scientists think they got so big, to how they managed to move around, and what their lives were like. Woodruff's research focuses on sauropod biomechanics and ontogeny. Ontogeny, is a field of biology that examines the changes an animal’s body, especially its bones, undergoes as it develops and matures. Woodruff currently works in the lab of paleontologist Dr. David Evans at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum, and is earning his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. While at Montana State University for his undergraduate and master’s degrees, Woodruff worked with paleontologist Dr. Jack Horner, the legendary dinosaur researcher, fossil-hunter and technical advisor on the Jurassic Park movies. Woodruff, a Virginia native, is the author or co-author of a number of significant research studies on dinosaurs, including examining the biomechanics of sauropods’ long necks, and describing the first burrowing dinosaur, called Oryctodromeus cubicularis. In addition to his position at the Royal Ontario Museum, he is the director of paleontology at the Great Plains Dinosaur Museum in Malta, Montana. Our interview took place in Cleveland, while Woodruff was visiting the Cleveland Museum of Natural History to examine our sauropod specimen, Haplocanthosaurus delfsi.

Dinosaur George answers questions submitted by listeners. Topics include Gorgonopians, Postosuchus, Sauropods, Sea Reptiles, Parasaurolophus, hatchlings, herds vs packs, and more.

Dinosaur George answers questions submitted by listeners. Topics include Gorgonopians, Postosuchus, Sauropods, Sea Reptiles, Parasaurolophus, hatchlings, herds vs packs, and more.

Collingwood Area School students join GNS scientists in a search for dinosaur footprints on the shore of a Golden Bay estuary

Collingwood Area School students join GNS scientists in a search for dinosaur footprints on the shore of a Golden Bay estuary

A recent paper about dinosaur necks, and a decent puzzle about rolling dice.   music: bensound.com

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 week we are firing up the time machine and heading back 150 million years to what is now North Africa. Harri has her heart set on riding a Spinosaurus.  It has been busy week at  SeaDog Vet Services dealing with a crocodile attack and Twit the barking owl, and Xanthe has been making a start on...Continue reading →

As Palaeocast celebrates it's 1st Birthday, we take the chance to look back over the past year and review our highlights. We also look towards the future and discuss our plans to attend some upcoming palaeontology conferences. We introduce a new member of the Palaeocast team and hear a little about the scientific work of all our members.

The Mesozoic Era saw the spectacular rise and fall of many groups, particularly in terrestrial vertebrates. These include birds, squamates, crocodiles, and pterosaurs, who wove a complex tapestry of evolution through the 185 million years of the Mesozoic, some even persisting until now. Dave Hone, now of Queen Mary in London, has extensively studied the ecology of many of these now-extinct organisms, especially theropod dinosaurs, to gain rare insights into how they would have lived millions of years ago. You can keep track of his research by following his blogs at the Guardian and Archosaur Musings webpages.

00:00:00 - Ben begins the show this week talking about Jacob. Eventually Ryan and Patrick force him into talking about the agreed up topic: The 100 Year Starship symposium which took place recently in Orlando, FL. Which happens to be near Jacob. Big ideas about how to get off this tiny planet abound, and the Paleopals break down a few but encourage you to read up on the details yourself! 00:26:11 - What the Paleopals lack in rocketry they more than make for in 'jet fuel', if you know what I mean. Patrick celebrates with a Jubelale, Ben has a whole island of new juice opportunities, and Ryan pans a Las Vegas 2-for-1 bruised dry gin martini. 00:31:51 - Trailer Trash Talk this week feels better than ever as the guys break down the newest in the long-lived Greek war-epic genre: Immortals. 00:41:23 - New research suggests that saurpods (the dinos with the big long necks) may have migrated. Patrick and Ryan discuss isotopic particulars while Ben pesters about dinosaurian generalities. 00:59:43 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like Sauropods. At one point hard to miss, but now increasingly rare. Ben has an iTunes review from Ed Lolington. Ryan thanks Brian Switek for mentioning us at the SVP science communication meeting (more from Brian in a future show). And Patrick has both e-mail and loot from Elizabeth S. Thanks, Elizabeth!   Thanks for listening! Ben remixed his post from last week, and Juliana has another great exhibit write-up, both of which are available at Paleocave.com!   Music this week provided by: Ship of Fools - The Doors Rock Island Line - Johnny Cash Battleflag - Lo Fidelity Allstars Movin' Right Along - Alkaline Trio