Episode 289: Allosaurus was a cannibal


Episode 289 is all about Labocania, a doable tyrannosaurid from Baja California, Mexico.

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On this episode, we focus on:

Information:

  • We joined #strikeforblacklives and #shutdownSTEM on June tenth to attract consideration to how science has been used in opposition to Black folks supply
  • Allosaurus was in all probability a cannibal supply
  • T. rex doubtless had lengthy legs to stroll effectively not run rapidly supply
  • In Queensland, Australia, a brand new set of three steel Austrolovenator dinosaur sculptures have been accomplished supply
  • An Apatosaurus constructing in Spring Hill, Florida, was nominated to be listed within the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations supply
  • In Drumheller, the World’s Largest Dinosaur will likely be getting repaired and painted supply
  • Nurseries within the UK are utilizing their dinosaur “Wellasaurus” to handle social distancing supply
  • Jurassic Quest has changed into a drive by expertise supply
  • The Royal Mint launched the Hylaeosaurus coin, the final of the Dinosauria supply
  • SpaceX Astronauts introduced the stuffed toy dinosaur Tremor to the ISS supply
  • The toothbrushing podcast Chompers is doing a dinosaur theme this week supply
  • Discovery could have a brand new collection beginning Friday, June 19 (9 pm ET), known as Dino Hunters supply
  • PBS has a brand new collection, which is able to air on June 17, June 24, and July 1, known as Prehistoric Highway journey supply
  • Jurassic Park Terror has a put up known as Each Jurassic Park Dinosaur Illustrated With Trendy Science supply
  • The subsequent few Friday nights, Dustin Growick, is internet hosting dinosaur events for adults supply

The dinosaur of the day: Labocania

  • Theropod that lived within the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) in what’s now Baja California, Mexico (La Bocana Roja Formation)
  • Carnivorous
  • In all probability medium sized, about 20 ft (6 m) lengthy
  • Gregory Paul estimated in 2010 it was 23 ft (7 m) lengthy and weighed 1.5 tonnes
  • Molina-Pérez and Larramendi estimated in 2016 it was 27 ft (8.2 m) lengthy and weighed 2.6 tonnes
  • Had a sturdy head
  • Enamel within the jawbone had been flat and step by step recurved
  • Kind species is Labocania anomala
  • Genus identify refers back to the La Bocana Roja Formation (the purple estuary)
  • Species identify means anomalous in Latin, and refers to its distinctive construct
  • Present in 1970 throughout a joint Nationwide Geographic Society and Los Angeles County Museum of Pure Historical past expedition, led by William Morris
  • Harley James Garbani, a volunteer on the expedition, discovered the fossils
  • Excavated in 1970 and 1971
  • Described and named in 1974 by Ralph Molnar
  • Holotype is fragmentary, and contains elements of the cranium, enamel, a part of the pubis, elements of the foot, chevron
  • Fossils had been disarticulated and combined with ribs from a Hadrosauroidea dinosaur
  • Presumably a tyrannosaurid, however onerous to inform from the fragments (Molnar assigned it as theropoda incertae, and Thomas Holtz Jr. thought-about it a doable tyrannosauroid)

Enjoyable Reality:
A lot of animals follow cannibalism, together with dinosaurs & herbivores.



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