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Episode 173 can also be about Kosmoceratops, a chasmosaurine ceratopsian whose title means “decoration horned face.”
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On this episode, we talk about:
Information:
- Researchers analyzed a uncommon child (newly hatched) chook that lived within the Cretaceous and located many options which might be in fashionable birds, which might help scientists research extra evolutionary traits
- Scientists discovered that Archaeopteryx was able to flying
- Scientists discovered that the “little Iguanodon” from the Bernissart bonebed is a separate genus
- Phil Currie might be giving a chat on Saurornitholestes at Crimson Deer School in Alberta, Canada, on March 29
- The Arizona Museum of Pure Historical past in Mesa, Arizona is internet hosting a Dino Egg hunt on March 30 and a Beer ‘N’ Bones occasion on April 13
- The Museum at Prairiefire in Overland Park, Kansas, has a brand new touring exhibit, referred to as Trendy Dinosaurs?
- Hillsdale School’s Daniel M. Fisk Museum of Historical past in Michigan has a new Triceratops on show, referred to as Donna
- The Pure Historical past Museum in London is launching a brand new VR expertise this spring, referred to as Maintain the World, the place you’ll be able to have Sir David Attenborough as your tour information
- A brand new dinosaur park in Portugal, Dino Parque Lourinha, opened final month and already had 20,000 guests
- The Bayville sauropod dinosaur in New Jersey will quickly be restored
- A pair in Washington state has a Deinonychus on their entrance porch
- In Singapore, Dino, an inflatable pink dinosaur, is popping up at nationwide monuments from now till April 22 as a part of an effort by Nationwide Heritage Board to lift consciousness of the monuments
- Caught within the 90’s podcast is doing a 90’s dinosaur march insanity
The dinosaur of the day: Kosmoceratops
- Chasmosaurine ceratopsian that lived within the Cretaceous in what’s now Utah, US
- Identify means “decoration horned face”
- Discovered within the Kaiparowits Formation in Grand Staircase-Escalante Nationwide Monument
- Named in 2010 by Scott Sampson and others, together with Utahceratops and Vagaceratops
- Sort species is Kosmoceratops richardsoni
- Species title in honor of Scott Richardson, a volunteer who discovered the holotype, and found two skulls (discovered the primary fossils in 2006)
- Holotype has an almost full cranium, in addition to vertebrae, ribs, hip, and partial rear leg
- Additionally discovered a referred specimen, a subadult with a disarticulated cranium
- Herbivorous
- About 14.8 ft (4.5 m) lengthy
- Weighed about 2.5 tonnes
- Cranium was about 6 ft (1.8 m) lengthy
- Had probably the most ornate cranium, with probably the most horns, of any recognized dinosaur (15 horns or horn-like constructions)
- Had a really brief frill (twice as huge because it was lengthy), and had two small holes within the frill, and hook-like projections on the rim
- Prime of the frill had 10 small horns, and the 8 within the center curved down, and the two on the tip projected to the perimeters
- Had a low nasal horn that seemed like a blade-like construction (holotype had a blunt tip)
- Had forehead horns above the attention sockets that projected to the perimeters (uncommon for ceratopsians, often they curve forwards or backwards)
- Had 1 horn on every cheek
- All this ornamentation helps present horns and frills had been for species recognition and show, and attracting mates (like peacocks), not essentially for protection (options weren’t nice towards predators)
- The sideways horns would have been a method to lock heads and interact in methods to point out dominance
- Each women and men had comparable horns, probably in order that predators couldn’t inform the distinction (they could have tended to go after the females)
- Kosmoceratops and Utahceratops assist present the range of ceratopsians in addition to the existence of various pockets of dinosaur evolution
- Lived in Laramidia, an island continent (that’s now western North America). The had been northern and southern provinces, attributable to geological boundaries, and Kosmoceratops and most different chasmosaurines had been within the southern half (finally although the boundaries went away, and the 2 blended)
- No proof discovered but of a bodily barrier, however there could have been a beforehand unidentified mountain vary, non permanent flooding from a close-by sea, a turbulent river, or one thing else
- The limitation on the gene swimming pools, as a result of isolation, allowed for extra elaborate cranium designs
- Lived in heat, moist swamps. Sampson mentioned, “On the time, this was very a lot a swamp atmosphere and really lush. The local weather was extra Mediterranean. It could have been a fantastic place to hang around aside from all of the tyrannosaurs”
- Different dinosaurs that lived in the identical time and place embody Utahceratops, Nasutoceratops, hadrosaurs Parasaurolophus and Gryposaurus, and tyrannosaurs equivalent to Teratophoneus and troodonts equivalent to Talos
- Each recognized Kosmoceratops specimens are on the Pure Historical past Museum of Utah
- Can see Kosmoceratops within the Previous Worlds Gallery on the Pure Historical past Museum of Utah
Enjoyable Reality:
Though child dinosaur-birds (Enantiornithes) had been “allometric:”
- They seemed like infants and never simply mini adults
- They nonetheless could have been “precocial” or “semiprecocial”
- They could not have relied on dad and mom to deal with them
Mainly, they could have simply walked or run round to search out meals till they may fly.
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