The many uses of melanin
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Dyoplosaurus, links from Maria McNamara, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Dyoplosaurus-Episode-399/
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Dinosaur of the day Dyoplosaurus, an ankylosaurid that lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Alberta, Canada (in the Dinosaur Park Formation).
Interview with Maria McNamara, a paleobiologist and professor of paleontology at the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at University College Cork. Follow her on twitter @MariaMcN_palaeo
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| 0:40.5 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. |
| 0:41.1 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:41.9 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:51.3 | And today in our 399th episode, we have an interview with Maria McNamara, all about dinosaur coloration and what else melanosomes could do. |
| 0:56.0 | We have Dinosaur of the Day dioplasaurus, and we have our fun fact. |
| 1:01.5 | But before we get to all of that, we want to thank some of our patrons, |
| 1:04.7 | and this week we'd like to thank Randy and Squim, Trent Carbohal, Ermal, Jeff, Amato Titan, Cameron, Albertosaurus, |
| 1:15.3 | Joaquin, Stefan, and Bill Jago. |
| 1:19.3 | Yes, thank you so much for being part of our community. |
| 1:23.0 | We really appreciate you and all of our other patrons. |
| 1:26.5 | So without further ado, we're going to head on to |
| 1:29.2 | our interview with Maria McNamara. But of course, if you are a patron, there is an extended |
| 1:35.3 | version of this interview in your premium content feed. So if you want to hear even more |
| 1:41.0 | about melanosomes and all the crazy stuff that they can do, then you might want to |
| 1:46.2 | listen to that instead of this abridged version. |
| 1:49.7 | So we're joined this week by Maria McNamara, and she's a paleobiologist and professor of paleontology |
| 1:56.4 | at the School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences at University College Cork. |
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