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This Week in Dinosaur News: New cassowary-like dinosaur, an 86 year old dig site re-discovered, and more

High diversity of the Ganzhou Oviraptorid Fauna increased by a new “cassowary-like” crested species by Junchang Lü, et al.

This week in Dinosaur news:

  • New oviraptorid, Corythoraptor jacobsi with a “cassowary-like crest” that could have been used for communication, thermoregulation, and/or display
  • New bones of Austrosaurus mckillopi were found after tracking down the original site from a 1933 paper and photos
  • University of Saskatchewan Space Design Team found dinosaur fossils while looking for a test site for their rover prototype
  • 15th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists just finished, abstracts can be read here
  • A 10-year old boy has successfully corrected a mislabeled dinosaur at the Natural History Museum in London.
  • Dinosaur World, will be at the New Theater in Oxford, UK on August 24 through August 26
  • John Mina, a podiatrist who was on a dinosaur dig with Two Medicine Dinosaur Center in Bynum, Montana, found a Daspletosaurus bone
  • Giant turkey nuggets have been the inspiration for a series of edible tableaus, mostly dinosaurs dying
  • LEGO ideas has a 1,000 piece T.rex skull design in the works which measures almost 2 feet long
  • A new denim jacket with sequin dinosaurs has become very popular after getting shared on Facebook. You can easily find them with an eBay search
  • A funny although inaccurate shirt shows the three phases of matter in T. rex form

To hear our discussion on these topics and more check out http://iknowdino.com/ohmdenosaurus-episode-141/

This Week in Dinosaur News: new titanosaur named after Clint Eastwood, giant theropod tracks, and more

New massive theropod footprints described in Historical Biology http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2017.1324438

This week in Dinosaur news:

  • A new set of giant theropod tracks, Jurabrontes, found in Switzerland and described in Historical Biology and previously on SwissInfo
  • A new titanosaur, Europatitan eastwoodi, named after Clint Eastwood was discovered in Spain and described in PeerJ
  • Charles Sternberg may have uncovered a new hadrosaur almost 100 years ago that is just now being realized according to FASEBJ
  • A dinosaur tracksite in Plagne, France is the longest of its type according to Geobios
  • Just because a dinosaur footprint doesn’t look like a foot doesn’t mean it’s not “well preserved” details in JVP
  • New dinosaur tracks in Cameroon, Africa may help teach us about the Trans-Saharan Seaway according to the Journal of African Earth Sciences
  • The first ever dinosaur tracks may have been found in Gabon, Africa according to Geodiversitas
  • A near complete skeleton of an Iguanodon was found at a brick factory in Surrey, UK according to The Gaurdian
  • Scientists at the Fukui Prefecture in Japan found a large carnivore tooth 
  • More dinosaur tracks have been found in Dinosaur Valley State Park in Texas after a heavy rain exposed them
  • The new website Jurassic Files was launched to discuss paleontology and its benefits to science
  • Smithsonian Mag wrote a feature about Clayton Phipps, a.k.a. The Dinosaur Cowboy who found the Dueling Dinosaurs of Montana
  • Most National Park dinosaur discoveries are from the Colorado Plateau and Alaska
  • A new temporary exhibit is at Utah State University called “Clubs, Horns and Shields: Armored Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals”
  • The Virginia Museum of Natural History is having a Dino Festival from July 21 and 22 to celebrate its new exhibit, Dinosaurs: Reign of the Giants
  • The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis in Indiana is offering dinosaur digs for families, teachers, and adults
  • Dan Chure, who has been the palaeontogist at Dinosaur National Monument for 38 years (since 1979) has retired
  • Jim Kirkland recently received the 2017 Crawford Award for his paleontology work in Utah
  • Henry Sharpe, a 15 year old paleoartist, is a future paleontologist who volunteers at the Royal Ontario Museum Kids’ Camp according to Mostly Mammoths
  • Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past is a new book showing a visual history of artwork inspired by paleontology
  • Inverse published two articles about the science and inaccuracies in The Land Before Time
  • Atlas Obscura shared more information about Gertie the dinosaur, the original animated dinosaur
  • Jen Lewis replaced dinosaurs in Jurassic Park with characters from the TV show Dinosaurs
  • Do we need to treat dinosaurs more nicely? Carlos Perez thinks so
  • A woman dressed up in an inflatable T. rex costume and took boudoir photos for her fiance
  • Smitten is selling purple dinosaur capri leggins
  • The VR dinosaur hunting game Island 359 was released in the Oculus store and on Steam

For our discussion of all these stories check out episode 138 of the I Know Dino podcast

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This Week in Dinosaur News: Mechanics of T. rex eating bones, What sauropods ate, and more

The Biomechanics Behind Extreme Osteophagy in Tyrannosaurus rex By Paul Gignac-Gregory Erickson – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-02161-w

In the news:

  • T. rex had such a powerful bite it may have caused “catastrophic explosion of some bones” according to Nature’s Scientific Reports
  • A theropod footprint was discovered imprinted in a fossilized brachiosaur vertebra and is now on display in the UK
  • New theropod, sauropod, and possibly stegosaur/ankylosaur footprints found on the island Oléron in France
  • Earth Touch News Network posted a story about a track site of Anomoepus which were found while constructing a pond
  • David Hone and Jordan Mallon explain why we can’t tell male and female dinosaurs apart in an article in Paleontology
  • Sauropod coprolites give us new insight into what the long-necked giants were eating (and possibly drinking)
  • The Chinese Academy of Sciences launched an excavation zone in Yanji city expected to cover 10 square kilometers
  • The China Post issued “Chinese Dinosaurs” a set of postage stamps of seven dinosaurs that were found in China
  • CNN published a story about Chinese artist Zhao Chuang, who brings dinosaurs to life
  • Mike Habib discussed the Mesozoic as the “age of dead baby dinosaurs” in an article on Inverse
  • Dinosaur Ridge Visitor Center is struggling to keep up with the large number of visitors and may move to a larger building
  • The Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum in Vernal, Utah, is sponsoring a Fossil Field School June 19-23
  • NewsOK published an article about dinosaurs in Oklahoma including hundreds of Apatosaurus bones
  • Dinosaur Gardens just opened for the season in Michigan and is free to visit
  • Stone Mountain Park in Georgia has an attraction called Dinosaur Explore with 20 life-size dinosaurs that move and roar
  • Thanks to a generous $10 million donation Yale will soon have a new lecture hall named after Othniel Charles Marsh
  • Flamborough Patio Furniture (which is known for making dinosaur statues) suffered from serious fire damage, but remains open
  • Barnaby Dixon showed off an amazing dinosaur finger puppet in a video
  • The Facebook group Plastic Paleontology is open for all fans of prehistoric toys
  • It turns out Mookie Wilson never actually said his famous quote about dinosaurs and the 1986 article was a fake
  • The San Francisco Silent Film Festival screened the original 1925 version of The Lost World based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel
  • Our listener Luke created a new list of great dinosaur books features a couple of our books as well as many other great choices
  • Inverse published a great list of 10 dinosaur documentaries that you can stream online including the latest “The Day the Dinosaurs Died”

To here a discussion on these stories and more check out Episode 132 of I Know Dino

I Know Dino Podcast Show Notes: Acanthopholis (Episode 132)

Episode 132 is all about the Acanthopholis, the platypus of ankylosaurs (pun intended).

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In this episode, we discuss:

News:

  • T. rex had such a powerful bite it may have caused “catastrophic explosion of some bones” according to Nature’s Scientific Reports
  • A theropod footprint was discovered imprinted in a fossilized brachiosaur vertebra and is now on display in the UK
  • New theropod, sauropod, and possibly stegosaur/ankylosaur footprints found on the island Oléron in France
  • Earth Touch News Network posted a story about a track site of Anomoepus which were found while constructing a pond
  • David Hone and Jordan Mallon explain why we can’t tell male and female dinosaurs apart in an article in Paleontology
  • Sauropod coprolites give us new insight into what the long-necked giants were eating (and possibly drinking)
  • The Chinese Academy of Sciences launched an excavation zone in Yanji city expected to cover 10 square kilometers
  • The China Post issued “Chinese Dinosaurs” a set of postage stamps of seven dinosaurs that were found in China
  • CNN published a story about Chinese artist Zhao Chuang, who brings dinosaurs to life
  • Mike Habib discussed the Mesozoic as the “age of dead baby dinosaurs” in an article on Inverse
  • Dinosaur Ridge Visitor Center is struggling to keep up with the large number of visitors and may move to a larger building
  • The Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum in Vernal, Utah, is sponsoring a Fossil Field School June 19-23
  • NewsOK published an article about dinosaurs in Oklahoma including hundreds of Apatosaurus bones
  • Dinosaur Gardens just opened for the season in Michigan and is free to visit
  • Stone Mountain Park in Georgia has an attraction called Dinosaur Explore with 20 life-size dinosaurs that move and roar
  • Thanks to a generous $10 million donation Yale will soon have a new lecture hall named after Othniel Charles Marsh
  • Flamborough Patio Furniture (which is known for making dinosaur statues) suffered from serious fire damage, but remains open
  • Barnaby Dixon showed off an amazing dinosaur finger puppet in a video
  • The Facebook group Plastic Paleontology is open for all fans of prehistoric toys 
  • It turns out Mookie Wilson never actually said his famous quote about dinosaurs and the 1986 article was a fake
  • The San Francisco Silent Film Festival screened the original 1925 version of The Lost World based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel
  • Our listener Luke created a new list of great dinosaur books features a couple of our books as well as many other great choices
  • Inverse published a great list of 10 dinosaur documentaries that you can stream online including the latest “The Day the Dinosaurs Died”

The dinosaur of the day: Acanthopholis

  • Name means “spiny scales”
  • Ankylosaur in the family Nodosauridae that lived in the Cretaceous in what is now England
  • John Griffiths, a fossil collector, found bones in 1865 at the shoreline near Kent, and he sold them to Dr. John Percy, a metallurgist. Percy let Thomas Huxley know about the bones, and Huxley paid Griffiths to dig up all the fossils at that site. He found more bones and some body armor parts
  • Huxley named Acanthopholis horridus in 1867
  • The species name means “frightening” or “rough”
  • In 1890 Arthur Smith Woodward renamed the species name to Acanthopholis horrida, because “pholis” is feminine
  • Type specimen consists of three teeth, a basic cranium, dorsal vertebra, spikes, and scutes
  • Has a long, confusing history
  • In 1869, Harry Govier Seeley named three new Acanthopolis species: macrocercus, platypus, and stereocercus. Then he split off material of Acanthopholis stereocercus and named a new Anoplosaurus species based on part of it: Anaplosaurus major. And he described another species, Acanthopholis eucercus, based on six caudal vertebrae. But in 1902 Franz Nopcsa reassigned that Acanthopholis major, and renamed Anoplosaurus curtonotus to Acanthopholis curtonotus.
  • In 1879 Seeley also named Syngonosaurus based on part of material from Acanthopholis macrocercus
  • In 1956, Friedrich von Huene renamed Acnthopholis platypus to Macrurosaurus platypus (not everyone agrees with this)
  • Then in 1999 Xabier Pereda-Superbiola and Paul Barrett reviewed all Acanthopholis material and found all species were nomina dubia (specimens were composites of ankylosaur and ornithopod remains). Acanthopholis platypus, for example, had sauropod metatarsals. Seeley also had two unpublished names he used to label museum specimens: Acanthopholis hughesii and Acanthopholis keepingi. These are nomina nuda (means naked name)
  • Originally Huxley assigned it to Scelidosauridae. Then in 1902 Nopcsa created the family Acanthopholididae, and later named the subfamily Acanthopholinae (changed it to Acanthopholidae in 1928). Now it’s considered to be a nodosauridae in ankylosauria
  • Had thick armor made of oval keeled plates that were horizontal on the skin
  • Had long spikes on the neck and shoulder, along the spine
  • Quadrupedal and herbivorous
  • About 10-18 ft (3-5.5 m) long and weighed about 840 lb (380 kg) (not known for sure, since it’s based on fragments)

Fun fact:

Strongest bite force ever measured: “16,414 N [3,690 lb] was directly measured for a bob-tailed, 4.51 m Australian saltwater crocodile [Crocodylus porosus]”

  • Compared to an estimated 7,761 lb for a T. rex
  • Humans top out at about 200 lb on the molars
    • T. rex can bite about 40 times as strong as a human
    • Normal human chewing is about 70 lb

Highest bite pressure ever measured: “2,473 MPa [358,678 psi] was deduced for a 2.99 m” Australian saltwater crocodile

  • Compared to an estimated 431,000 psi for a T. rex
    • It only takes 65 MPa (9,400psi) to break bone with one bite

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This Week in Dinosaur News: A massive set of footprints in Northeast Thailand may show group behavior in theropods and much more

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