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

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In this episode, we discuss:

News:

• We joined #strikeforblacklives and #shutdownSTEM on June 10th to draw attention to how science has been used against Black people source
• Allosaurus was probably a cannibal source
• T. rex likely had long legs to walk efficiently not run quickly source
• In Queensland, Australia, a new set of three metal Austrolovenator dinosaur sculptures have been completed source
• An Apatosaurus building in Spring Hill, Florida, was nominated to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places source
• In Drumheller, the World’s Largest Dinosaur will be getting repaired and painted source
• Nurseries in the UK are using their dinosaur “Wellasaurus” to manage social distancing source
• Jurassic Quest has turned into a drive through experience source
• The Royal Mint released the Hylaeosaurus coin, the last of the Dinosauria source
• SpaceX Astronauts brought the stuffed toy dinosaur Tremor to the ISS source
• The toothbrushing podcast Chompers is doing a dinosaur theme this week source
• Discovery will have a new series starting Friday, June 19 (9 pm ET), called Dino Hunters source
• PBS has a new series, which will air on June 17, June 24, and July 1, called Prehistoric Road trip source
• Jurassic Park Terror has a post called Every Jurassic Park Dinosaur Illustrated With Modern Science source
• The next few Friday nights, Dustin Growick, is hosting dinosaur parties for adults source

The dinosaur of the day: Labocania

• Theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) in what is now Baja California, Mexico (La Bocana Roja Formation)
• Carnivorous
• Probably medium sized, about 20 ft (6 m) long
• Gregory Paul estimated in 2010 it was 23 ft (7 m) long and weighed 1.5 tonnes
• Molina-Pérez and Larramendi estimated in 2016 it was 27 ft (8.2 m) long and weighed 2.6 tonnes
• Had a robust head
• Teeth in the jawbone were flat and gradually recurved
• Type species is Labocania anomala
• Genus name refers to the La Bocana Roja Formation (the red estuary)
• Species name means anomalous in Latin, and refers to its distinctive build
• Found in 1970 during a joint National Geographic Society and Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History expedition, led by William Morris
• Harley James Garbani, a volunteer on the expedition, found the fossils
• Excavated in 1970 and 1971
• Described and named in 1974 by Ralph Molnar
• Holotype is fragmentary, and includes parts of the skull, teeth, part of the pubis, parts of the foot, chevron
• Fossils were disarticulated and mixed with ribs from a Hadrosauroidea dinosaur
• Possibly a tyrannosaurid, but hard to tell from the fragments (Molnar assigned it as theropoda incertae, and Thomas Holtz Jr. considered it a possible tyrannosauroid)

Fun Fact: Lots of animals practice cannibalism, including dinosaurs & herbivores.