Episode 391: Dinosaurs in the Brazilian Outback. Tito Aureliano and Aline Ghilardi join us to discuss their work with dinosaurs in Brazil as well as their book/RPG/video game named Dino Hazard

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Interview:

Interview with Tito Aureliano and Aline Ghilardi. Tito is a paleontologist, geologist, science communicator, and researcher at the University of Campinas and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Aline is a scientist, science communicator, and professor of paleontology also at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. You can find all of their work at colecionadoresdeossos.com and en.dinolab.com.br or on YouTube

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The dinosaur of the day: Stegoceratops

• Hybrid of Triceratops, Stegosaurus, some sort of beetle, some sort of snake, and cuttlefish
• Has a Triceratops head with frill and horns (though has longer brow horns), and plates like Stegosaurus on its back and thagomizers on the tail
• Sometimes seen as with a nasal horn, sometimes seen with a nasal boss instead
• Hybrid dinosaur, briefly seen on a computer screen in Jurassic World
• Designed by Henry Wu, but unclear if it was created in the movies
• Was going to be in Sector 5 on Isla Nublar in Jurassic World, but was cut from the plot
• Was going to reveal that Wu was making more hybrids than Indominus, but Colin Trevorrow’s son suggested taking it out to make Indominus rex stand out more
• Name means “roofed horned face”
• Estimated to be about 30 to 33 ft (9 to 10 m) long and weigh 11 to 15 tons
• Had a large beak
• May have had exo-skeletal armor, from its beetle elements
• May be able to see infrared, from its snake elements
• May be able to camouflage, from its cuttlefish elements
• Also may have elements of a flatfish (to extract oxygen from water) and jellyfish (to be bioluminescent), based on these species being depicted as computer renderings next to Stegoceratops
• Front feet have five toes each, and back feet have three toes each
• Can see Stegoceratops in Jurassic World: The Game (fuse level 40 Stegosaurus and level 40 Triceratops)
• In Jurassic World: Evolution, likes to eat rotten wood, but also eats horsetails and palms
• In the game, is part of herds of three to eight Stegoceratops
• Also in the game, makes cattle and groaning sounds
• In the game, can run through Ceratosaurus with one of its horns (and kill it)
• Also in LEGO Jurassic World: The Indominus Escape (one of the dinosaurs that helps Owen Grady and Claire Dearing corral Indominus rex)
• Also has Stegoceratops toys

Fun Fact:

Dinosaurs can communicate through their eggshells with their siblings before hatching.

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