In our 163rd episode, we received to speak with Dr. Dave Hone. He’s a lecturer in Zoology at Queen Mary College of London, and he has a weblog referred to as Archosaur Musings. (If his identify sounds acquainted, we additionally received to speak to him in episode 82, “Ouranosaurus”!)
Episode 163 can be about Gasosaurus, a tetanuran whose identify means, you guessed it, “gasoline lizard.”
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On this episode, we talk about:
Information:
- Scientist discovered a tick on a dinosaur feather, preserved in amber
- Anchiornis now has a extra correct depiction of its feathers
- A tyrannosauroid metatarsus was present in Delaware, US
- Development staff discovered 20 dinosaur eggs in Jianxi Province, China
- Japanese artist Hiroshi Fuji has made “Jurassic Plastic,” dinosaur sculptures made out of recycled and discarded toys
- New Mexico Museum of Pure Historical past and Science had a cell museum
- Faulkner Planetarium in Twin Falls, Idaho has a brand new present, “Dinosaurs at Nightfall: the Origins of Flight“
- Dinosaurs within the Wild has prolonged its keep in London, by way of July
- Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina has an exhibit of 17 animatronic dinosaurs, from now till April 29
- The North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher is getting its Dinosaurs! exhibit again this spring
- Creston, South Dakota, is a ghost city with its personal dinosaur
- The dinosaur topiary sculptures on Third Avenue Promenade in Santa Monica shall be getting refurbished early this yr
- BBC Two aired the documentary, The Actual T. rex
- Liz Climo, an artist on the present The Simpsons, has illustrated a kids’s dinosaur image e book about Christmas
- The sport Jurassic World Evolution, by Frontier, just lately launched one other video of in-game footage
- The sport GTFO shall be set within the Chicxulub Crater
- Dino Stack is a brand new Android, block stacking sport
- Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs launched a screenshot of the sport, exhibiting Dinosaur Planet
- Magic the Gathering, Rivals of Ixalan is introducing 5 legendary elder dinosaurs
- Extra folks dressed up within the T. rex costume:
The dinosaur of the day: Gasosaurus
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- Tetanuran dinosaur that lived within the Jurassic in what’s now Dashanpu, China
- Identify means “Gasoline lizard”
- Named in honor of the gasoline firm that discovered the Dashanpu fossil quarry in Sichuan Province (now generally known as Decrease Shaximiao Formation)
- Present in 1985 throughout the development of a gasoline facility
- Named by Dong Zhiming and Tang Zilu
- Sort species is Gasosaurus constructus
- Not many fossils discovered, so not clear precisely what it regarded like (no cranium discovered)
- Some scientists suppose Gasosaurus and Kaijiangosaurus could also be synonyms
- Had brief arms and powerful legs
- About 11-13 ft (3.5-4 m) lengthy
- Weighed round 330 lb (150 kg), although some scientists estimate it weighed as a lot as 880 lb (400 kg)
- Regarded as a megalosaurid, however now regarded as a sinraptorid, based mostly on knowledge from undescribed specimens
- Gasosaurus is the topic of a fantasy. On February 20, 2014, a website online printed an article that claimed a 200-million-year previous dinosaur egg had hatched in a Berlin museum as a consequence of a malfunctioning heating unit (mentioned the egg was in a storage room subsequent to the boiler room and the system overheated and began the incubation course of). Seems the article was a spoof, printed by World Information Every day Report, a website recognized for publishing fictious tales, together with “Large Housecat Now Availalbe on Market” and “Apple Pronounces Launch of Paranormal Communication Software”, in keeping with Snopes
Enjoyable Truth:
Sauropods produced about 5–10x the methane that each one ruminants (principally cows) do right now.
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