The Big Dinosaur Podcast

In our 189th episode we got to speak with Glen McIntosh who has been working at Industrial Light & Magic since 1998, and has worked on a number of films, including Star Wars: Episodes 1-3, E.T., and Jurassic Park III, Jurassic World, and Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom. You can see him briefly in a making of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom here telling Chris Pratt that the dinosaurs will be “even better” in Fallen Kingdom.

Episode 189 also features Lamaceratops, a small—possibly dubious—ceratopsian from Mongolia.

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In this episode, we discuss:

News:

• A new Triassic sauropod from Argentina, Ingentia, shows very early gigantism and incredibly fast growth rates
• 35 people spent 20 days in Mongolia and unearthed hundreds of new dinosaur fossils
• The Lapworth Museum of Geology has a new exhibition from called “Drawing out the Dinosaurs” featuring two centuries of art and media
• Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, has an exhibit from now until January 6, called “Dinosaurs Revealed.” with 26 life-sized animatronic dinosaurs
• North Pioneer College in northeastern Arizona will be offering a new paleontology course this fall, all about Dinosaurs
• This clip shows many of the Jurassic Park characters, including the dinosaurs, wearing high heels
• Already have speculations on what Jurassic World 3 will be like, including dinosaurs taking over the entire world

The dinosaur of the day Lamaceratops

• Ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous ~85MYO in what is now Mongolia
• Probably small like other mongolian ceratopsians
• Name means “Lama horned face”
• Found in the Nemegt Valley, found a partial skull and lower jaw
• Named in 2003 by V. R. Alifanov
• Type species is Lamaceratops tereschenkoi
• Herbivorous
• Not enough fossils to know how big it was, but we may be able to guess based on Bagaceratops
• Bagaceratops was roughly the size of a medium sized dog about 1m (3ft) long & under 100lbs
• Not everyone thinks Lamaceratops is a valid genus, and some think the fossils found could be referred to Bagaceratops (since the fossils for both are very similar), though Lamaceratops could also be a new species of Bagaceratops
• Talk about Bagaceratops in episode 72 (small, probably cute dinosaur)
• Part of the family Bagaceratopsidae, a group of dinosaurs with parrot-like beaks that lived in the Cretaceous in what is now Asia

Fun Fact:

Some dinosaur fossils are radioactive.

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