The Dinosource
The bare-bones dinosaur edu-tainment podcast! Join your hosts David and Michaela in their journey of dinosaur discovery, starting with the very basics and moving on to the latest dino digs.
Episodes
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- Riley Black on dinosaur lungs
- Much of the research for this episode came from The Sauropod Dinosaurs by Hallett and Wedel
- Some additional research came from The Dinosauria, 2nd edition
- Brocklehurst’s most recent paper on dinosaur breathing from 2020
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- Tyler Green on the “Four Dinosaurs of the Apocalypse”
- Fluffy T. rex meme
- The penguin/sauropod meme
- Starkey Comics on the stealing of his Lufengosaurus meme
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- Kurzgesagt’s video on exploding mice
- About 50 people per year in the US are killed by farm animals
- Pachycephalosaurus packed a punch
- Riley Black’s explanation of the Acrocanthosaurus trackway
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References
- The Tumblr post that has been screen-shotted and shared around. If you know of an earlier source than this post please get in touch!
- Slate on what dinosaurs tasted like
- What dinosaur would be tastiest? Yeah, it’s a surprisingly common news article.
- One of the only sources I could find mentioning both Cadmium and t...
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- Nicolas Cage Returns Stolen Mongolian Dinosaur Skull
- Martill is quoted on the ethics of fossil poaching
- Ubirajara’s press coverage from before the paper was “temporarily removed”
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References
- Don Henderson’s first paper on modeling dinos
- Henderson’s “Tipsy Punters” paper
- Hone and Holtz’s Spinosaurus paper
- Animal Planet’s video about hippos swimming
- Lythronax was the dinosaur Michaela was trying to mention
- Bloat and Float examined
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Get In Touch
Email: dinosourcepodcast@gmail.com
Twitter: @TheDinosource
Thanks to June "McGreatness" Paik for our lovely podcast artwork.
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References
- Let’s Make a Music’s album including “Utah: Industry”
- Mark Witton on the phenomenon of “feather resistance”
- Mark Witton (again) on whether or not T. rex had feathers; also included is some good examples of paleoart featuring feathered rexes
- Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong did a whole episode on feathers which is quite in...
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References
- A pop-sci article about the Malone 2021 paper
- Malone et al’s paper hypothesizing sauropod gastroliths and long-distance migration
- The first Wings paper quoted by Malone which argues strongly that most supposed gastroliths are just weird rocks
- The second Wings paper that argues that most sauropod gastroliths were al...
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- Dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs for the most part
- Riley Black says “no, dinosaurs didn’t die out because they were all boys”
- The “Mafia hypothesis” on Wikipedia
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References
- Description of Psittacosaurus’ butt by Bell et al, 2020
- Femoral retraction in dinosaurs and the importance of the caudofemoralis longus by Gatesy, 1990
- Description of Staurikosaurus by Colbert, 1970
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References
- Sakagami, 2020; a typical paper about dinosaur neurobiology. Figure 5 is the picture of Triceratops’ skull with its brain superimposed. The brain is very small.
- No, Stegosaurus didn’t have a second brain in its butt.
- Walsh et al, 2009; predicting hearing ranges based on dinosaur skull proportions.
- Ballell, 2020;...
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- Sharovipteryx on Wikipedia
- Dryptosaurus on Wikipedia (with Leaping Laelaps shown at the bottom of the page)
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Email: dinosourcepodcast@gmail.com
Twitter: @TheDinosource
Thanks to June "McGreatness" Paik for our lovely podcast artwork.
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References
- Dollo’s Law of Irreversability
- Mergansers (which are ducks)
- Brocklehurst and Field, 2021; a very good summary of the most up-to-date theories behind dinosaur tooth loss
- Field et al, 2018; more of Field’s work on avian edentulousness and what made it throug the K-Pg extinction event
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References
- Comet shard, not asteroid, caused the dino extinction
- A good primer on taphonomic bias
- David Hone discussing North Korean fossils and other sources of bias
- What we know about Ceratopsians in Appalachia (not much)
- Yes, shrimp existed in the Mesozoic (and at least as far back as the Carboniferous)
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Glossary
- Spinosaurus aegyptiacus: One of the largest theropod chompy-bois to have ever lived, measuring between 12 and 18m when fully grown and weighing in at 21 tons by some (incredibly unreasonable) estimates. A minimum weight estimate of 7 tons means that this is still no joke of a dino. Although Spinosaurus lived durin...
References
- Dr Dave Hone discussing fossil examination under UV
- Hone and Tischingler on Microraptor under UV
- Interview with Hone about the paper
- Scientists have used UV light to reconstruct pigmentation on fossil snail shells
- Turns out birds have more going on in the UV spectrum than we can see with our dumb human eyes
- No, that viral video wasn’t showing pigeons’ natural UV fluorescence
- A re-examination of Juravenator with pic...
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