The Dinosource

• Quick primer on why illegally smuggling fossils is bad
• Thesaurus tea company, for those who are interested
• Concavenator’s introductory paper
• Icthyovenator is the anti-Concavenator
• Ceratosaurus’ forelimb research

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• Dinosaurs were not on the way out when the asteroid hit, new research finds
• Protoceratops nest with 15 juveniles preserved
• Protoceratops preserved with its footprint
• YDAW on Styracosaurus
• Cotylorhynchus, the anti-ceratopsid
• Darren Naish discussing the possibility that ceratopsid frills were attached to the rest of their body all the way up (it’s not likely)
• Protoceratops fossil with multiple standing on top of each other

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• LIFE magazine from the 1950’s treats “racial senescence” like it’s a real thing that makes any sense
• There’s a paper which tries to estimate which dinosaurs were alive at the time of the K-Pg extinction event. I don’t think it’s very good.
• Of course, David is immediately shown to be wrong about dinosaurs possibly being on the way out when the space-rock hit.

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• Dino butt!
• Tetrapod Zoology discussing a few things, including discussing Dr Unwin’s controversial pterosaur paper/press release
• Unwin and Martill on pterosaur fibres (or lack thereof)
• Dr Tsai’s paper on saurischian hip adaptations
• Sailbacks vs buffalo-backs in dinosaurs
• Bertozzo et al on Ouranosaurus

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• Therizinosaurs in pictures, although Mark Witton has since indicated that this is probably not an accurate look, even if it did have feathers
• Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong once again bringing the cold, hard facts about Therizinosaurus
• Psittacosaurus looked funny and also may have been spelled very different from how you imagined
• Osborn’s paper describing Psittacosaurus
• 2016 paper by Vinther et al showing off Psittacosaurus’ colouration
• We’ve touched on it before, but feathers on a large animal like Therizinosaurus might have hindered more than they helped

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• I decided to look up what dolphin skeletons looked like. I regret that decision.
• The big book of paleoart that is mentioned in the episode.
• A discussion of that book, in progress, with a copy of Riou’s famous (and much copied) illustration
• PBS Eons’ episode on Dimetrodon
• PBS Eons with more info on synapsids
• Why not more Eons? Here’s their episode on ichthyosaurs

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• The Long Boyes subreddit
• Mark Witton on the likely life-behaviour of Tanystropheus from 2015
• Recent paper on Tanystropheus, detailing the two species and its aquatic lifestyle
• Why giraffes have long necks, courtesy of the BBC
• Why do animals have long necks? My new favourite paper

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• Thomas Huxley’s paper where he puts Compsognathus as a sister taxon to Dinosauria (a bold move, to be sure) and makes fun of the name “Dinosauria” (possibly a bolder move)

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A bit of a break from normal this week, as our hosts have watched the famously bad, low-budget comedy horror movie "Velocipastor".

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• Comparison of ornithiscian dinosaurs with modern reptiles, looking at who may have been “warm blooded”
• Discussion of whether dinosaurs were warm blooded from 1990
• Sharks keep their eyes warm
• Did you know that sloths don’t have a steady body temperature? Weird but true.
• Mark Witton has written an excellent blog post on the operating temperatures of animals, and talks about how large animals are more concerned with shedding heat than generating it
• Looking for our series on the Bone Wars? Look no further!
• Big dinos had difficulty shedding heat, not keeping it
• Eagle et al’s paper looking at fossilized teeth to determine the temperature at which they were formed
• A follow-up paper by Eagle doing more of the same, but for different fossils
• And further replication of these results

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