Siats meekerorum
Peter Makovicky introduces us to Siats meekerorum, a new species of dinosaur discovered and described by him and Lindsay Zanno! For more information, read their paper here: http://bit.ly/19IWWuH...
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Hey! We're here with Pete Makovicky, who is the associate curator of vertebrate paleontology? Dinosaurs. - Dinosaurs? - Let's just say dinosaurs. So these are the bones of- the mortal remains, so to speak- of a new type of meat-eating dinosaur we call Siats meekerorum. This was published just a few weeks ago, and as you can see, it's nowhere near as complete as Sue. - Right. But we have enough to tell us it's a new species, and to tell us what kind of dinosaur it is. So most of the bones are from the vertebral column, so we have a vertebra from the back— That is one— what, is that a thoracic vertebra? - That is one— That would be, yeah, in a human being we'd call this a thorcic. So, sort of near the front of the chest. And the t...
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Hey! We're here with Pete Makovicky, who is the associate curator of vertebrate paleontology? Dinosaurs. - Dinosaurs? - Let's just say dinosaurs. So these are the bones of- the mortal remains, so to speak- of a new type of meat-eating dinosaur we call Siats meekerorum. This was published just a few weeks ago, and as you can see, it's nowhere near as complete as Sue. - Right. But we have enough to tell us it's a new species, and to tell us what kind of dinosaur it is. So most of the bones are from the vertebral column, so we have a vertebra from the back— That is one— what, is that a thoracic vertebra? - That is one— That would be, yeah, in a human being we'd call this a thorcic. So, sort of near the front of the chest. And the t...
