Homalocephale - Episode 98
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Interview with Dr. Victoria Arbour a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Royal Ontario Museum/University of Toronto, Canada and an ankylosaur expert. You can follow her on twitter @VictoriaArbour
New study uncovers a link between skull ornamentation and giant theropods like T-rex, details about the director of Jurassic World 2, a new LEGO Jurassic World animated short, dinosaur sculptures, and more. Also, dinosaur of the day Homalocephale (Prenocephale), a pachycephalosaurid that lived in the late Cretaceous in what is now Mongolia.
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| 0:32.8 | Hello and welcome to I know Dino. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:41.3 | This week we have an interview with Dr. Victoria Arbor, focusing on ankylosaur's. |
| 0:41.6 | Yay. Yeah. |
| 0:41.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.6 | We have the dinosaur of the day homolecephaly. |
| 0:47.9 | Also known as prenocephaly. |
| 0:50.4 | Yeah, it's one of these is one of juvenile situations. |
| 0:54.5 | And we have a bunch of dinosaur news. |
| 0:57.2 | Before we jump into that, though, we just want to give a big shout out to our patrons on Patreon. |
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| 1:11.8 | So jumping right into the news, there's a new study that kind of looked at how dinosaurs looked |
| 1:19.5 | depending on their size. And when you think of a Dilafasaurus, you probably think of the head |
| 1:25.3 | crest that it had, and hopefully not about the frill that it probably didn't have. |
| 1:30.7 | And a group of researchers set out to figure out how skull ornamentation might have been linked to dinosaur evolution. |
| 1:38.5 | So Delophosaurus was actually pretty big. |
| 1:40.8 | It was a lot bigger than the one in Jurassic Park. |
| 1:43.4 | It was one of the biggest predators in its time, which was pretty big. It was a lot bigger than the one in Jurassic Park. It was one of the biggest predators in that in its time, which was pretty earlier in the dinosaur rain. |
| 1:51.1 | But interestingly, the researchers found that dinosaurs that had crests or horns on their heads like Delophosaurus or to a lesser extent T-Rex grew to larger sizes than dinosaurs that didn't have skull ornamentation. |
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