Episode 493: T. rex Intelligence and Kallie Moore from PBS Eons. Tyrannosaurus rex and different dinosaur brains didn’t fill their entire cranium. Plus Kallie Moore joins from the improbable YouTube channel PBS Eons and shares how the mission began and the way it’s going.
Information:
- T. rex was not almost as good as a baboon, in accordance with a brand new research of dinosaur intelligence primarily based on mind dimension and neuron counts supply
Interview:
Kallie Moore, the Collections Supervisor/Fossil Librarian on the College of Montana Paleontology Heart, co-host of the YouTube channel PBS Eons, and govt producer for the documentary Why Dinosaurs? Comply with her on Instagram @fossil_librarian
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The dinosaur of the day: Xiaosaurus
- Ornithischian dinosaur that lived within the center Jurassic in what’s now Sichuan, China (Xiashaximiao Formation)
- Herbivorous, and evenly constructed
- On the small aspect for a dinosaur
- Estimated to be about one meter lengthy (over 3 ft)
- Femur (thighbone) is 11 cm (4.3 in) lengthy
- Walked on two legs, had an extended tail, quick arms, muscular legs, had a small head
- Had leaf-shaped enamel
- Two people present in 1979 and 1980
- Named in 1983 by Dong Zhiming and Tang Zilu
- Sort species is Xiaosaurus dashanpensis
- Genus title Xiaosaurus means “daybreak lizard”
- Genus title refers back to the age of the dinosaur
- Species title refers to Dashanpu, the township close to the place the fossils had been discovered
- Holotype is a partial skeleton with a jaw fragment with a tooth, neck and tail bones, an higher arm bone, a partial left thighbone, and an entire proper leg
- Second skeleton discovered features a proper thighbone, vertebrae, a phalanx (finger or toe bone), a rib, two enamel
- Peng Guanzhao reclassified Agilisaurus multidens as Xiaosaurus multidens in 1992, however this wasn’t accepted
- Xiaosaurus multidens later turned Hexinlusaurus
- Too fragmentary to simply categorized, and generally considered a nomen dubium. A 2005 research discovered it to be legitimate and to be Ornithischia incertae sedis (so some form of ornithischian)
- Lived in a lush forest
- Different dinosaurs that lived across the identical time and place embody ornithischians like Hexinlusaurus and Agilisaurus, sauropods similar to Abrosaurus, Dashanpusaurus, Omeisaurus (identified for its actually lengthy neck), Shunosaurus (identified for having a tail membership), theropods such because the megalosaurids Kaijiangosaurus and Leshansaurus (and lots of different sorts of theropods), stegosaurs like Bashanosaurus and Huayangosaurus (had pointy spikes on their backs)
- Different animals that lived across the identical time and place embody fish, amphibians, turtles, crocodiles, and pterosaurs
Enjoyable Reality:
A brand new “titan” reptile was simply named from the Triassic, but it surely’s not a titanosaur. It’s the “titanic fish” Ichthyotitan, which can have been the dimensions of a blue whale!
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