T. rex tooth replacement & a new Australian megaraptorid
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Dinosaur of the day Leptoceratops, A small late cretaceous ceratopsian that may have switched between a two and four-legged stance.
Interview with Matthew Mossbrucker, the director and chief curator at the Morrison Natural History Museum in Colorado where he studies the type section of the Morrison Formation. He's also on the board of the Paleon Museum where he leads digs with the public. Check out his work at the Morrison's Facebook page.
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In dinosaur news this week:
- A new Megarptorid was found in Australia, it looks a lot like Australovenator, but it might be too old
- Another Alaskan tracksite, the Chignik Formation, recovers a huge number of hadrosaurids at the beach
- A new study looked at Tristan the T.rex’s tooth replacement and found an alternating replacement pattern
- Three baby Protoceratops at Southern Illinois Laboratory have been given new nicknames
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| 0:59.3 | We also have some new dinosaur tracks from Alaska, and we have a T-Rex tooth replacement story. |
| 1:07.3 | We also have an interview with Matthew Mossbroker and Dinosaur of the Day, Leptoceratops. |
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