Episode 193 is all about Fruitadens, the smallest identified ornithischian at beneath 2 kilos and three toes in size.
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On this episode, we focus on:
Information:
- A brand new experiment of Jurassic plant development and sauropod digestion reveals that the ecosystem might maintain extra dinosaurs than beforehand thought. supply
- A brand new examine on fossilized melanosomes calls into query earlier research on dinosaur coloration. supply
- A crew from the College of Kansas is engaged on excavating a juvenile T. rex within the Hell Creek Formation. supply
- Late Jurassic footprints are being investigated in paving stones close to hotsprings in China. supply
- Sauropod footprints from the early Cretaceous have been documented with photogrammetry within the UK. supply
- A father and son crew opened a dinosaur heart in Springerville, Arizona. supply
- A brief inflatable inexperienced sauropod is within the Bayville dinosaur’s place whereas it’s being repaired. supply
- Myles Garrett from the Cleveland Browns lately traded his signed No. 95 jersey for a dinosaur toy. supply
- A brand new South Korean movie got here out this summer time, referred to as Together with the Gods: The Final 49 Days, which featured some dinosaurs. supply
- YouTube video “The Most Disturbing Loss of life Scene in Jurassic Park Historical past – Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park.” highlights the scene the place compys kill a child. supply
- Faculty Humor created a video displaying Jurassic Park scenes with different prehistoric creatures. supply
- The New Zealand Mint has a coloured, official, Jurassic Park twenty fifth Anniversary 1oz silver coin on the market for $85 USD. supply
- The board sport “Jurassic Park: Hazard” was launched by Ravensburger the place one particular person performs because the dinosaurs attempting to eat the human gamers. supply
The dinosaur of the day: Fruitadens
- Heterodontosaurid that lived within the Jurassic in what’s now Colorado
- Title means “Fruita tooth”
- Refers to Fruita, Colorado, the place it was discovered
- Discovered within the Nineteen Seventies and Eighties by George Callison and a crew, from the Pure Historical past Museum of Los Angeles County
- Discovered within the Morrison Formation’s Brushy Basin Member
- Formally described in 2010 by Richard Butler and others
- Kind species is Fruitadens haagarorum
- Species identify in honor of Paul Haaga Jr., Heather Haaga, Blythe Haaga, Paul Haaga III, and Catalina Haaga for the Pure Historical past Museum of Los Angeles County, who offered help
- Discovered incomplete jaws, vertebrae, partial hind limbs, and an almost absolutely grown particular person, in addition to not less than three different people (people ranged in age from two to 5 years)
- Smallest identified ornithischian
- Younger adults estimated to be 26-30 in (65-75 cm) lengthy and weigh 1.1-1.7 lb (0.5-0.75 kg)
- Just like Echinodon (small bipedal dinosaur from the Cretaceous in what’s now England)
- Comparable physique proportions to Heterodontosaurus
- Had quick arms and lengthy legs
- Hind limb bones have been hole, much like small theropods
- Light-weight, so in all probability agile
- Might have had bristly filaments alongside its again (hypothesis, primarily based on relative Tianyulong)
- Most ornithischians are herbivores, however since Fruitadens was so small, it might have been exhausting to digest simply plant vegetation (huge guts assist digest plant materials)
- In all probability bipedal and omnivorous (jaws have been not likely specialised), could have eaten crops, bugs, and different invertebrates
- May open jaws huge and chunk shortly (however had a weak chunk)
- Decrease jaws had an enlarged canine-like tooth, with a niche for it within the higher jaw
- A small peg-like tooth was in entrance of the canine-like tooth
- Had alternative enamel, which is totally different from different heterodontosaurids
- Different animals that lived in the identical time and place embody snails, clams, crayfish, bugs, fish, turtiles, lizards, crocodylomorphs, and mammals
Enjoyable Truth:
Our pores and skin (and dinosaur feathers) have melanin for coloration and safety from UV radiation. The liver produces much more melanin as a hormone which by no means sees the sunshine of day.
Sponsors:
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