The Navajo Researcher Reviving A Desert Peach | A New Dino With Blade-Like Horns

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🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Bringing back Southwest peach orchards won’t be easy, but researchers are on the lookout for remaining trees—and they need help. And, the newly discovered Lokiceratops is challenging paleontologists’ understanding of how horned dinosaurs evolved and existed together.

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0:00.0	Listener supported WNYC Studios.
0:11.5	This is Science Friday. I'm Irafledo.
0:14.5	Today on the podcast, the search for the Southwest Peach.
0:18.1	But first, recorded live from the Echoes Theater in Salt Lake City,
0:22.5	we meet Loki Ceratops, a funky lime green elephant-sized dinosaur
0:28.3	with blade-like horns all over its head.
0:32.0	This is not an animal that wants to hide.
0:34.9	This is an animal that wants to stand out and say, I'm sexy.
0:43.5	The Intermountain West is a dinosaur nerds dream because it's such a hotspot for fossils
0:50.0	and some of the most famous dino fossils in the world, like T-Rex, Triceratops, can be found in western North America.
0:58.4	So, of course, we couldn't come out to Utah without digging into, you know, some info about dino science.
1:05.0	And today we're going to meet a fossil that was just unveiled last year, a spectacular horn dinosaur named Loki Ceratops.
1:15.9	That's welcome to the people who worked on Loki. They're right here with us.
1:21.5	Savannah Carpenter, paleontologist, school outreach coordinator at the Natural History Museum of
1:27.3	Utah, and Dr. Mark Lowen,
1:29.6	vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Utah and the Natural History Museum of Utah.
1:34.7	Welcome to Science Friday. Nice to have you.
1:39.8	Thank you. Thank you. It's great to be here. Mark, all right, let me begin with you.
1:44.7	Take me back to the beginning. Where did Loki Seratops come from?
1:49.2	So Loki Seratops came from the badlands in a river valley just about six miles south of the Canadian
1:58.4	United States border in Montana. It was dug up by commercial collectors
2:04.2	on a private ranch, and it was sold to a museum in Denmark. And we have a partnership with that
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