Eustreptospondylus - Episode 109
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
I KNOW DINO, LLC
4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2016
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Interview with Dr. Eric Morschhauser, an Assistant Professor at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania who has worked with early birds, theropods and recently basal neoceratopsians.
In the news: Tickets for the new show "Dinosaurs in the Wild" are on sale, early dinosaurs had much more variation within the species than modern birds do, new information about dinosaur teeth, a behind-the-scenes look of the new National Fossil Hall, and more.
Also, dinosaur of the day Eustreptospondylus, a megalosaurid that lived in the Middle Jurassic in what is now England.
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| 0:31.6 | Music Hello and welcome to I know Dino. I'm Garrett. |
| 0:48.2 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:49.3 | This week we have an interview with Eric Morshouser. |
| 0:52.7 | Our dinosaur of the day is EustStreptospondalus. |
| 0:56.9 | And we have a bunch of dinosaur news. |
| 0:59.4 | But before we get into all that, we want to thank our patrons, Chris, Nicholas, Kyle, and Betsy. |
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| 1:21.2 | slash I know dino. So jumping right into the news, first we have a couple articles about teeth, which is pretty |
| 1:30.3 | enthralling depending on how into teeth you are. The first one that I want to mention is actually |
| 1:37.1 | an SVP article. And it kind of talked about how modern grazers have what's called prismatic enamel, which apparently is almost like a |
| 1:48.3 | fiberglass structure. It really strengthens the teeth, having these prisms in it. And they also |
| 1:54.7 | create what's called fracture resistance. Specifically, grazing mammals have this, like if you think of like a cow or something. |
| 2:04.2 | And when they're grinding their teeth, since they're picking up the grass off the ground, if they say get like a little pebble in there, they could break a tooth. |
| 2:13.8 | So they have this fancy fracture resistant prisms inisms in their enamel, and that prevents the |
| 2:20.4 | crack from spreading throughout the tooth, and it kind of stops the crack from going too far and breaking |
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