Hadrosaur Hooves, Head Combs, Muscles, and More Soft Tissues

About this episode

The episode discusses new discoveries of soft tissues in dinosaurs and a controversial new iguanodont.

Lots of new discoveries of soft tissues in dinosaurs. Plus new studies to confirm old soft tissues and a new—controversial—iguanodont. For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about  Santanaraptor , and our fun fact check out  https://iknowdino.com/Santanaraptor-Episode-563/ Join us at  www.patreon.com/iknowdino  for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more. Dinosaur of the day  Santanaraptor,  a small theropod found with soft tissue. In dinosaur news this week: There’s a potentially new iguanodont, Paulodon galvensis (but it is controversial) Soft tissues can be preserved in fossils regardless of the species, age of the bones, or where the animal was buried A new method using Cross-polarized light microscopy (XPol) helps identify organic molecules in fossils New Edmontosaurus "mummies" show hooves, small spikes down the tail, and a banded fleshy crest over the neck and back Scientists re-evaluated the soft tissue crest of an edmontosaur hadrosaur dinosaur Dinosaurs likely had muscles forming cheeks New titanosaur sauropod tracks found in Mongolia show a lot of soft tissue details in the hands and feet &nbsp…

Topics covered

• soft tissues in dinosaurs
• new dinosaur discoveries
• paleontology techniques
• dinosaur anatomy
• dinosaur news

Keywords

• soft tissues
• dinosaurs
• Santanaraptor
• Paulodon galvensis
• paleontology
• Edmontosaurus
• dinosaur anatomy
• fossils
• Cross-polarized light microscopy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: I KNOW DINO, LLC, IKD Survey

Books & works: Santanaraptor, Paulodon galvensis

Places: Mongolia

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