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Hello and welcome to I Know Dino, a podcast about dinosaurs and all things dinosaur related. I'm Garrett.

And I'm Sabrina.

Today we'll be interviewing Dr. Anthony J. Martin, who is an ecologist, which means he

studies all of the non-bone-related traces from dinosaurs, which is coprolite, also known as dinosaur fossilized poop,

and dinosaur tracks, gastrolists, which are stones that they swallowed, and anything else that

gets fossilized or preserved that isn't the dinosaur itself.

It gives a deeper understanding of the day-to-day lives of dinosaurs than you can

get from their bones or even their skin or feathers or anything. It's really in some ways a lot more

interesting than studying bones because you can see whether the dinosaurs raised their young

or whether they left them at a young age you can tell

whether they hunted in packs or if they migrated as a herd you can tell how quickly they moved

by how far apart their footprints are spaced and you can tell how big they were when they were born because

it includes things like their nests.

Joining us is Dr. Anthony Martin, a paleontologist and professor at Emory College in Atlanta, Georgia.

He specializes in technology, which studies things such as animal burrows, tracks, trails, and feces, and

ascertain dinosaur habits, diet, and migration patterns, among other things.

He's known for discovering the first known burrowing dinosaur, as well as discovering the best

assemblage of polar dinosaur tracks in the southern hemisphere.

And he's also the author of several books. And the most recent one

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