Episode 389: Your Questions Answered. Dinosaurs in Antarctica, how lengthy people would survive alongside dinosaurs within the Mesozoic, and plenty of extra questions answered.
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We reply the next questions:
- What “Dino of the day” most stunned you / most you in researching it for an episode?
- What well-known dino subject expedition would you favored to have been a part of?
- Who of the early paleontologists do you would like you would have interviewed?
- When you needed to take a aspect within the Bone Wars, would it not be Marsh or Cope?
- Will there ever be an opportunity that your favourite teams of dinosaurs (sauropods and ankylosaurs) might change?
- What are your favourite non-saurian extinct animals?
- Do you’ve got historic plant or fungal life you discover fascinating?
- Did you’ve got a favourite dinosaur toy rising up?
- How lengthy would a human survive within the early-Triassic, mid-Jurassic, or end-Cretaceous?
- What’s the Coolest fossil you’ve got discovered or seen?
- What makes Velociraptor (and different feathered dinosaurs) dinosaurs and never birds?
- Which fossil most appears to be lacking from the file, however you hope or count on to be discovered? Possibly a feathered T. rex?
- What’s—and isn’t—recognized about dinosaur pores and skin? How is it recognized, comfortable tissue preservation?
- Do you’ve got a routine for the way you do the analysis for every episode?
- Is there a particular specimen you need to go to and see sometime?
- Have any dinosaur fossils been discovered within the in Antarctica? Is their any probability any pores and skin, bone and so forth may very well be locked within the permafrost?
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The dinosaur of the day: Proa
- Basal iguanodont that lived within the Early Cretaceous in what’s now Teruel Province, Spain (Escucha Formation)
- Seems like different iguanodonts, with a protracted tail, cumbersome physique, and will stroll on all fours
- Had a comparatively massive head and was stocky
- Estimated to be 23 to 26 ft (7 to eight m) lengthy
- Sort and solely species is Proa valdearinnoensis
- Described in 2012 by Andrew McDonald and others
- Genus identify means “prow”, and refers back to the pointed form of the predentary bone (decrease jaw), that appears just like the bow on a ship
- Species identify refers to Val de Ariño, the standard identify for the coal mines, close to the place the fossils have been discovered
- A minimum of six people discovered, together with a partial skeleton and almost full cranium (5 specimens described within the paper)
- Greater than 340 bones discovered
- Initially reported in 2005, as fragmentary stays from an indeterminate basal iguanodont
- Sister taxon to Batyrosaurus
- Distinctive options embody the predentary coming to some extent on the rostral margin (the tip)
- Helps fill a spot within the fossil file of basal European iguanodonts
- Three braincases discovered (two nicely preserved)
- CT scanned the braincases, and located that its encephalization quotient (EQ) was about 3.6, which is fairly excessive
- Helps present that there was the next EQ for a short while in some ornithopods (not simply theropods)
- Hypothesized that this larger EQ could have led to residing in teams and caring for younger
- Lived in a swampy atmosphere with conifers, ferns, and flower crops
- Greater than 11,000 fossils discovered within the space since 2010
- Fossils present in amber within the space (typically bugs, but in addition mammal hair and a fraction of dinosaur feather)
- Have additionally lately discovered blood-sucking mosquitoes and dinosaur fossils collectively, which implies mosquitoes could have bit the dinosaurs
- Different dinosaurs that lived across the identical time and place embody the nodosaurid Europelta, allosauroids, iguanodontids, and titanosauriformes
- Different animals embody fish, turtles, crocodiles, mammals, and bugs
Enjoyable Reality:
The phrase “mark” is a vital time period in ichnology, however its actual which means is disputed.
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