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Gorscak Talks About Discovering Dinosaur in Africa, Oct. 22

Gorscak Talks About Discovering Dinosaur in Africa, Oct. 22

Ecolunch presents Eric Gorscak presenting “Cretaceous Paleobiologeography, Morphological Clocks, and Model-Based Approaches: Case Study Utilizing Titanosaurian Dinosaurs with Evidence of a Centralized Role for Continental Africa” on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 11:50 a.m. in Irvine 159. “Titanosaurians were a successful group of Cretaceous dinosaurs but with an obscure evolutionary history. […]

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October 22, 2014 at 5:45 pmEvents

A Dinosaur Needed to Cool Its Brain?

A Dinosaur Needed to Cool Its Brain?

It’s been millions of years since T. rex took its last breath, but a Biological Sciences grad student is part of a team breathing life back into dinosaurs using high-powered computer simulations to model airflow through dinosaur snouts. The research has important implications for how dinosaurs used their noses not […]

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October 15, 2014 at 11:28 amResearch

How Much Snot Does a T Rex Sneeze?

How Much Snot Does a T Rex Sneeze?

How much snot does a T Rex sneeze? Dinosaur expert Larry Witmer brought out the green slime as an encore at his standing-room-only Science Café presentation on Sept. 25. You can see it again at A&S TV. A researcher whose passion is studying the anatomy of dinosaur skulls knows a lot […]

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September 26, 2013 at 10:19 pmNews

Dinosaurs ‘Live,’ Nobody Gets Eaten, Sept. 25

Dinosaurs ‘Live,’ Nobody Gets Eaten, Sept. 25

“Our goal is to bring dinosaurs back to life for attendees … hopefully without anyone getting eaten!” said Ohio University dinosaur expert Dr. Lawrence Witmer. Witmer will “flesh-out” these ancient creatures at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 25, during Ohio University’s Science Café series. The event, held in the Baker […]

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September 20, 2013 at 6:59 pmEvents