Yamaceratops - Episode 205

Dinosaur of the day Yamaceratops, a ceratopsian whose frill is heavily pitted, possibly for jaw muscle attachments. Interview with Ali Nabavizadeh, Assistant Professor of anatomy at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. He studies the jaw musculature of herbivorous dinosaurs. Follow him on Twitter @Vert_Anatomist and check out his blog Anatomist's Guide. In dinosaur news this week:A large sauropod from the Late Cretaceous has been found in the Gobi Desert and it’s about 30-40% completeIn Argentina 70 million year old dinosaur eggs were found possibly including embryos, skin, and teethThe “Tufts-Love” T. rex skull at the Burke Museum has found 100% of the skull and jaw bones by bone count including several that are rarely preservedJunchang Lü, one of the most prominent paleontologists in China, recently passed away at the beginning of October at the age of 53Chilesaurus diegosuarezi, the first Jurassic dinosaur found in Chile, is going on exhibit at the Regional Museum of Aysen, in Coyhaique, Chile, next yearAn Allosaurus will be posed with a nest at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History since it may have looked after its youngJurassic World is selling Indoraptor masks, just in time for HalloweenA study of 150 Ceolophysis—mostly from the same bonebed—show that early triassic dinosaurs had femora that changed significantly as they agedThe data used to support the Ornithoscelida hypothesis had many errors, which casts some doubt on the conclusion that Ornithoscelida should replace the traditional Saurischia and Ornithischia groupsA study of a baby Massospondylus and it’s forelimb strength shows that Massospondylus was bipedal for its entire lifeA simulation of Mussaurus (the earliest Jurassic sauropodomorph) showed its center of mass shifted as it grew, meaning that it was quadrupedal as a baby and bipedal as an adultResearchers used a program called niche mapper to model microclimates of Plateosaurus & Coelophysis, showing which environments they would prefer based on plumage and metabolic ratesReconstructions of dinosaur feeding musculature shows that they chewed in a way different than any animal alive todayA study of emu and ostrich bones found many similarities with dinosaurs and suggests using bone microstructure to identify maturitySauropodomorph inner ears vary significantly across groups: Diplodocoids have relatively smaller inner ear, while Giraffatitan has the largest known inner-earBy studying alligator and turkey arms we might be able to show which theropods could supinate their hands as they drew them to their bodyA study of dinosaur bearing sites from Dinosaur Park Formation in Alberta & Saskatchewan and the similar aged Judith River sites in Montana shows which locations were the most similarA new model of dinosaur diversity in the latest cretaceous shows that they were not in decline, but instead maybe slowing down or leveling offThis episode is brought to you in part by TRX Dinosaurs, which makes beautiful and realistic dinosaur sculptures, puppets, and animatronics. You can see some amazing examples and works in progress on Instagram @trxdinosaurs To get access to lots of patron only content check out https://www.patreon.com/iknowdino For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Yamaceratops, more links from Ali Nabavizadeh, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Yamaceratops-Episode-205/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.