Hello everyone!
Just wanted to give a heads up that the podcast will not be available much longer. The monthly costs to keep it up are just too much.
We are working on placing the archives somewhere but if you have suggestions let us know!
@skinkus1@MattRyanAlvarez @nyrorosaurus Be happy it looks like a carcharodontosaurid at all, and understand that for the major "hero" and "villain" dinosaurs like this, they are usually under a) legal obligation to make them compyright-able and b) studio demands to make them scarier and more toyetic
As if Tyrannosaurus was not contentious enough with Nanotyrannus and Tarbosaurus running around, here comes Gregory Paul's new paper to give us three more variants to fight about! Here at LBTL, we'd like to propose Tyrannosaurus chomperi as well.
@DamaskeDamion Chungus is too close to the Chinese "chun gushi" meaning "Pure Story" or "Spring Story" and these considerations are important in scientific nomenclature
The Dinosaur of the Day is Borealopelta! An exquisitely preserved ankylosaur "mummy" which was found recently and is still telling us about its life in the ancient world! Even the stomach contents are still there!
The Dinosaur of the Day is Sinosauropteryx! This little dude from China is important for two reasons: one, it was the first (non-bird) dinosaur found with feathers, and two, it's so well preserved that we even know what colors it was! These ones: