I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

Coprolite (fossilized poop) with Karen Chin

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Dinosaur of the day Anserimimus, The "goose mimic" from the Gobi Desert.Interview with Karen Chin, Associate Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and Curator of Paleontology at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, and she's an expert in coprolites. Check out a video of her work here if you want to see more.Get our new book 50 Dinosaur Tales at: bit.ly/50dinosaurtalesIn dinosaur news this week:News from the 3rd day of talks at the 2019 meeting of the Society of Vertebrate PaleontologyDinosaurs had many different skull, jaw muscle, and brain sizes, but we can only easily study the small group that survived the mass extinctionBy using evo-devo we can now see how exactly bird skulls form around their brainsNon-avian Dinosaurs quickly evolved many different skulls and jaws, but they don’t always reflect their feeding strategiesWe don’t see evidence of dinosaurs before the Carnian Pluvial Event, but fossil localities are limitedA new statistical approach may m