Regurgitalites, sauropods with beaks, and dinosaur outreach

Dinosaur of the day Kritosaurus, a hadrosaur that was found over 100 years ago in New Mexico. Interview with Scott Hartman, a paleo artist and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, Madison for the Department of Integrative Biology. He’s done hundreds of skeletal drawings and his work has been featured in books, museums, and academic publications. Follow him on facebook or twitter @skeletaldrawing or skeletaldrawing.com In dinosaur news this week:News from poster sessions and 2nd day of talks at the 2019 meeting of the Society of Vertebrate PaleontologyEarly Mesozoic herbivores filled in ecological niches that were left because of extinctionsRegurgitalites (fossilized vomit) are out there, and they can give just as much information as coprolites (fossilized poop)Chemical testing of bones is looking to be a promising method of finding lost fossil localitiesScott Hocknull described three successful case studies of getting the public involved with dinosaur discoveries during construction projects and mining operationsStuart Sumida showed an animation of evolution, using a Dimetrodon and other relativesAriel Marcy has a new collaborative game about the scientific method, similar to the game PandemicTaissa Rodrigues taught high schoolers in Brazil about evolution through paleo artEmanuel Tschopp found that sauropods from the Morrison Formation did not overlap as much as previously thoughtKayleigh Wiersma showed that some sauropods may have had beaks in addition to their teethLes Hearn and Amanda Williams published a paper about pain in dinosaurs, and found a lot of dinosaurs survived injuries that would have hurt their mobility and ability to hunt or run away from predatorsThe Field Museum in Chicago has new sensory stations, including one where you can smell Sue the T. rex’s breathThere’s a grassroots effort in Westchester New York to protect land with dinosaur tracks and fossilsAustin, Texas, as a weird neon green dinosaur, known as Mangiasaurus rexSpecial Spaces Cleveland and the Jurassic World Live tour worked together to design a dinosaur bedroom for Ezra Boggs, a 6-year-old with cancerLego has a new 910 piece Dinosaur Fossils setGet our merchandise, on sale for Halloween at bit.ly/iknowdinostore 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 Kritosaurus, links from Scott Hartman, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Kritosaurus-Episode-257/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.