Sauropod carrion and a new ankylosaur
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Dinosaur of the day Denversaurus, a nodosaurid ankylosaur found with over one hundred osteoderms.
Interview with Cameron Pahl, software developer, Research Associate, and Lecturer with Portland State University and Oregon Health & Safety University. He authored the controversial Allosaurus as a scavenger paper, which is really more about how sauropod carrion affected the ecosystem.
In dinosaur news this week:
- Titanosaur osteoderms might have been useful for defense after all, at least while they were young
- A new ankylosaur, Spicomellus, was named from a spikey osteoderm fused directly to a rib—a first for any animal
- Four dinosaurs were excavated in Montana including what could be Anzu, Triceratops, a theropod, and a hadrosaur
- Dinosauria Museum Prague in the Czech Republic is opening October 4
- Morrison’s Dinosaur Ridge in Colorado has a new mural of three dinosaurs
- In Missouri, St. Louis Science Center has a new traveling exhibit, called Tyrannosaurs: Meet the Family
- Mary Anning’s statue in Dorset will be unveiled on May 21 next year
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