Episode 466: Dinosaur movies: classics, consulting, and a new premiere. Steve Brusatte presented on consulting for Jurassic World: Dominion, Film critic and historian Charles Solomon talked about influential dinosaur animations, Why Dinosaurs? is premiering this weekend, plus news from SVP 2023

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Dinosaur of the day Camposaurus, not to be confused with the ornithopod Camptosaurus. Camposaurus was a small coelophysid dinosaur that lived in the Late Triassic in what is now Arizona.

In dinosaur news this week:

• Steve Brusatte shared his experience being the paleontology consultant for Jurassic World: Dominion
• Internationally respected critic and historian of animation Charles Solomon talked about animation and paleontology in film including "From the Big Bang to Tuesday Morning"
• A panel of scientists discussed colonialism in vertebrae paleontology
• The characteristic dinosaur death pose is only regularly seen in non-avian theropods
• A new Triceratops specimen seems to have "rhizoetching" trace fossils from plant roots and/or fungus
• A femur from an apatosaurine (possibly Apatosaurus) seems to have a new pathology called osteochondritis dissecans
• Why Dinosaurs? is premiering in Hollywood

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Episode 465: Sauropodfest! 6 embryos and 3 adults from a new sauropodomorph; a new titanosauriform; and why sauropod necks are so much longer than giraffes.

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Dinosaur of the day Paludititan, a small titanosaur that lived on the Late Cretaceous Hateg island in what is now Romania.

In dinosaur news this week:

• A new sauropod species, Qianlong shouhu, was found with three adults and five clutches of eggs—including six embryos
• There’s a new titanosauriform, Garumbatitan morellensis
• A "coliseum" of over 1700 dinosaur tracks show a wide diversity of dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Alaska
• Dinosaur eggshells found in North-eastern Russia provide clues as to how polar dinosaurs lived and reproduced
• The Royal Tyrrell Museum now has the most complete Triceratops skull from Canada on display
• Chomper, a juvenile T. rex, is expected to sell for $20 million

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Episode 464: Dinosaur teeth! Tyrannosaur teeth in Yellowstone, spinosaur teeth in Early Cretaceous England, and more. Plus Brian Engh joins to discuss his documentary series on the Morrison Formation.

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Dinosaur of the day Eoabelisaurus, an Early Jurassic relative of Abelisaurus known from a nearly complete skeleton and was ahead of its time with strange short arms.

Interview with Brian Engh, a paleoartist and creator of the documentary series Jurassic Reimagined. You can find his work at dontmesswithdinosaurs.com on YouTube @DinosaursReanimated on Patreon at HistorianHimself and on twitter and Instagram @BrianEngh_Art

In dinosaur news this week:

• The first tyrannosaur tooth ever described from Yellowstone National Park
• Machine learning based on Maniraptoran teeth determined they were around about 30 million years earlier than previously thought
• A tooth shows there were more spinosaurs in the Early Cretaceous in what’s now England
• There was a diverse theropod community living in what’s now southern Chile up until the K-Pg extinction event

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Episode 463: Raptors and Alexander the Great. A new large raptor, Utahraptor is much older than we thought, multiple connections between Alexander the Great and dinosaurs, a new titanosaurian sauropod, and more

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Dinosaur of the day Peloroplites, an ankylosaur, named after the Greek hoplite soldiers known for locking their shields together during battle..

In dinosaur news this week:

• There’s a new titanosaur sauropod, Jiangxititan ganzhouensis, with some of the strangest vertebrae of any sauropod
• A new large dromaeosaurid from Northeast China which may have rivaled Achillobator in size
• Utahraptor is 10 million years older than previously thought
• Researchers are seeking to get the holotype of the spinosaurid Irritator returned to Brazil
• Barry the Camptosaurus is going to auction in October
• The Crystal Palace Park dinosaurs are now available as 3D models

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Episode 462: Designing a Paleozoo with Charles Nye. Plus a new hypsilophodontid from Dinosaur Isle, a new silesaur from Brazil, and how Charles Knight made realistic paleoart that is still influential over a century after it was drawn

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Dinosaur of the day Gideonmantellia, With over 100 bones from a single individual it's the most complete ornithopod and one of the most complete dinosaurs found in Spain.

Interview with Charles Nye, a paleoartist, grad student at Oregon State University, and project lead for The Artemis Paleozoo, an art book depicting the care and preservation of life that time forgot. Follow him @thepaintpaddock and the Paleozoo @ProjectPaleozoo on Instagram and twitter.

In dinosaur news this week:

• A new tiny relative of Hypsilophodon, Vectidromeus, from Dinosaur Isle
• New silesaurs found that add to the debate about where the group stands

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Episode 461: Four new theropods including abelisaurids and a deinocheirid! A pair of abelisaurids from the latest Cretaceous of Morocco, a new deinocheirid from Early Cretaceous Japan, and a long-legged possibly flightless bird from Jurassic of China

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Dinosaur of the day Aletopelta, an ankylosaur with a pair of spikes sticking straight up from its shoulders that was found in San Diego County, California.

In dinosaur news this week:

• A new Early Cretaceous deinocheirid from Japan, Tyrannomimus fukuiensis, helps fill in the very early evolution of dinosaurs that eventually led to Deinocheirus
• Paleontologists found two new abelisaurids in Morocco—helping to fill in details of the mostly unknown latest Cretaceous of Africa
• There’s a new early bird-like dinosaur (an anchiornithid avialan) with "bizarre" long legs

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Episode 460: Were dinosaurs smarter than mammals? New research into early dinosaur social skills suggest they were (at least at one point in history). Plus: The first good evidence of sexual dimorphism in dinosaurs; and Maz Maddox joins to discuss her RELIC series, about humans who can shape shift into dinosaurs.

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Dinosaur of the day Wannanosaurus, a pachycephalosaur that is smaller than Micropachycephalosaurus, although the holotype may be a juvenile.

Interview with Maz Maddox, a fellow dinosaur enthusiast and author of the RELIC series, about humans who can shape shift into dinosaurs.

In dinosaur news this week:

• Dinosaurs learned an advanced social skill called visual perspective taking at least 60 million years before mammals
• Another group of researchers found sexual dimorphism in dinosaurs, but this time they used more than just size or ornamentation.

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Episode 459: Beyond Bones: Breathing, Tendons, and Lips. New evidence of lips on T. rex, sauropod air sacs, blood vessels in Edmontosaurus, and more dinosaur soft tissues.

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Dinosaur of the day Titanosaurus, a dubious titanosaurian sauropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous.

In dinosaur news this week:

• Air sacs were invading sauropod bones in multiple ways in the Triassic—earlier than previously thought
• A new method to determine if scars on bones are from tendon attachments or air sac contact
• Ossified tendons aren't all completely ossified, some of them still have soft tissue in them
• Soft tissue plays a very important role in how animals breathe, smell, regulate their body temperature, communicate, and more

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Episode 458: Beyond Bones: Feathers. Plus a mammal found fossilized on top of (and likely fighting) a Psittacosaurus

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Dinosaur of the day Caudipteryx, A peacock sized oviraptorosaur known for its tail fan of feathers and flightless-bird-like body.

In dinosaur news this week:

• A new recreation of the color on Wulong's impressive feathers
• Beetles found in amber munching on cretaceous dinosaur feathers
• 2004 paper about the first ever parasitic louse found in the fossil record (which was eating dinosaur feathers)
• Most (maybe all) modern birds molt at least once a year, but Mesozoic dinosaurs may have molted less frequently

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Episode 457: Beyond Bones: Dinosaur Soft Tissues. Dinosaur bones are some of the most famous fossils. But dinosaur skin, feathers, blood vessels, tendons, and even organs have been found in the fossil record.

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Dinosaur of the day Chilesaurus, A Late Jurassic dinosaur whose origin is a mystery because it has a combination of features from theropods, ornithischians, and sauropodomorphs.

Dinosaur bones are some of the most famous fossils. But dinosaur skin, feathers, blood vessels, tendons, and even organs have been found in the fossil record.

A couple recent papers describe how and where soft tissue preserves:

• Researchers found the most common chemical mechanisms for soft tissue preservation
• Minerals in the Burgess Shale contributed to some of the best soft tissue preservation found anywhere in the world

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