Stygimoloch - Episode 176
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In the news: A new paper demonstrates ceratopsians probably didn't evolve horns to recognize each other; An outlandish paper claims that dinosaurs may have accidentally poisoned themselves; A possible young T. rex is being excavated by students at the University of Kansas; The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences unveiled a clutch of oviraptorosaur eggs; Lots of summer dinosaur activities were announced; New Jurassic Park and Jurassic World toys; And much more
Dinosaur of the day Stygimoloch a dinosaur with awesome spikes around the back of its head which some think is a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus.
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| 0:31.6 | Music Hello and welcome to I know Dino. I'm Garrett. And I'm Sabrina. This week we have Dinosaur of the |
| 0:50.2 | day Stidgy Moloch and a bunch of dinosaur news. But first, as always, we like to thank |
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| 1:26.1 | So jumping into the dinosaur news, first up is an article by Andrew Knapp and others |
| 1:31.5 | published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. |
| 1:34.7 | And what they were looking at is why Saratopsians grew so many different sets of horns. |
| 1:40.9 | And by that, I mean, I don't mean an individual with different sets of horns. I mean things |
| 1:45.5 | like, why does Dyracosaurus have such different ornamentation than triceratops, for example. |
| 1:51.9 | So if you're not familiar with all the different serotopsian horns, there's a lot more than just |
| 1:56.4 | what triceratops had. They do often have brow horns as well as a nasal horn, but sometimes they also |
| 2:02.6 | have cheek spikes, they can have very large frills, they can also have horns and bumps on the edge |
| 2:08.0 | of the frill and varying levels of all of these different ornaments. So the authors point out that |
| 2:14.8 | quote, a number of hypotheses have been suggested for the presence |
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