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We believe that de-extinction needs to be considered on a case-by-case basis per species. The health and well-being of the individual animals, whether they can fill a currently vacant niche in an ecosystem, and what affect they have on their new ecosystem will vary widely between, say, a woolly mammoth versus the gastric brooding frog. <a href="https://theconversation.com/before-we-build-jurassic-world-we-need-to-study-recent-extinctions-42818" target="_blank">Have a read of the article if you'd like to know more about the de-extinction debate</a>.<br /><br /></div> <div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="/uploads/2/6/8/7/26870240/8975306_orig.png" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%">One thing is for sure - we won't be seeing real live dinosaurs any time soon. Image from Jurassic World, by Universal Pictures.</div> </div></div> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><br />We also spoke on ABC Radio and 2SER about whether de-extinction is a sensible idea. Have a listen to the interviews here:</div> <div><div style="height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;"></div> <hr class="styled-hr" style="width:100%;"></hr> <div style="height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;"></div></div> <div><div class="wsite-multicol"><div class="wsite-multicol-table-wrap" style="margin:0 -15px;"> <table class="wsite-multicol-table"> <tbody class="wsite-multicol-tbody"> <tr class="wsite-multicol-tr"> <td class="wsite-multicol-col" style="width:22.875816993464%; padding:0 15px;"> <div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="/uploads/2/6/8/7/26870240/4262026.png?201" alt="Picture" style="width:201;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div> </td> <td class="wsite-multicol-col" style="width:77.124183006536%; padding:0 15px;"> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><strong><a href="https://soundcloud.com/abc-gold-coast/de-extinction-jurassic-world-in-the-real-world" target="_blank" title="" style="">De-extinction & Jurassic World in the real world</a>. </strong><br />ABC Gold Coast 91.7 - Drive Time, 9th June 2015.</div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div></div></div> <div><div style="height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;"></div> <hr class="styled-hr" style="width:100%;"></hr> <div style="height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;"></div></div> <div><div class="wsite-multicol"><div class="wsite-multicol-table-wrap" style="margin:0 -15px;"> <table class="wsite-multicol-table"> <tbody class="wsite-multicol-tbody"> <tr class="wsite-multicol-tr"> <td class="wsite-multicol-col" style="width:22.860712575266%; padding:0 15px;"> <div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:15px;padding-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="/uploads/2/6/8/7/26870240/4255906.png?177" alt="Picture" style="width:177;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div> </td> <td class="wsite-multicol-col" style="width:41.838257586296%; padding:0 15px;"> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><strong>De-extinction (link to right)<br /></strong>ABC Adelaide 891 - Afternoons, 10th June 2015.</div> </td> <td class="wsite-multicol-col" style="width:35.301029838438%; padding:0 15px;"> <div><div style="margin: 10px 0 0 -10px"> <a href="/uploads/2/6/8/7/26870240/abcadelaide_interview.mp3"><img src="//www.weebly.com/weebly/images/file_icons/wav.png" width="36" height="36" style="float: left; position: relative; left: 0px; top: 0px; margin: 0 15px 15px 0; border: 0;" /></a><div style="float: left; text-align: left; position: relative;"><table style="font-size: 12px; font-family: tahoma; line-height: .9;"><tr><td colspan="2"><b> abcadelaide_interview.mp3</b></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td>File Size: </td><td>9546 kb</td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td>
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It could answer so many questions about these enigmatic creatures: How did they behave? How did they grow? And what colour were they? Indeed, what could possibly go wrong? Surely if we kept these animals in a pen on an island without a scheming thief unlocking all the gates on a stormy night, we would all be safe. <br /><br />Humans often seem to act with little regard for their environment. We have seen the consequences borne out in the rapid extinction of animals and plants in countries where humans are the newly introduced species – the exotic invaders. Even when humanity and their natural environment are apparently in harmony, new arrivals with different cultural practices can throw the whole system back into turmoil. We only seem to understand the consequences of our actions in hindsight, and sometimes not even then.<br /><br />De-extinction could be seen as a path for redemption, to ease us of our guilt. We can finally bring back long-dead fauna and flora that we had a hand in wiping out. But to what end? It is our belief that we should only resurrect species that still have niches available to them in ecosystems that are struggling in their absence. This is not a new idea. With all the recent hype around resurrecting woolly mammoths, Beth Shapiro, author of </span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:16px;font-style:italic;color:#3f3f3f;">How to Clone a Mammoth </span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:16px;color:#3f3f3f;">(Princeton University Press, 2015) was quoted as saying, “I probably should have called the book, </span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:16px;font-style:italic;color:#3f3f3f;">How One Might Go About Cloning a Mammoth (Should It Become Technically Possible, And If It Were, In Fact, a Good Idea, Which It's Probably Not)</span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:16px;color:#3f3f3f;">” (Callaway, 2015). We agree, and wonder if these resources are likely better spent protecting the environment we do have, and repairing the environmental damage we’ve done, and are currently doing.<br /><br /></span></p> </div> <div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="/uploads/2/6/8/7/26870240/2655077_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%">Old species, new invasive: What modern day niche would the Columbian Mammoth, <i>Mammuthus columbi</i>, fill? </div> </div></div> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:16px;color:#3f3f3f;">For now, technological limitations render ethical arguments somewhat moot. The only available way to currently recreate past environments is through historical records and palaeontology: the study of ancient organisms and the traces they left behind, whether they are bones or teeth, carapaces of insects or footprints of any animal, leaf impressions, wood, pollen, and the list goes on. When it comes to reconstructing whole environments, looking to modern analogues can help us out. Does the pattern of plants in the fossil record look similar to any modern environments? Does the pattern or rings in wood occur in any climatic conditions now? Do any known modern animals leave traces like those left behind in ancient sediments?<br /><br />While as palaeontologists we can explore ancient environments, we may
264never know for certain exactly how a species behaved. For example, footprints left behind by modern birds engaging in mating displays may indicate that certain repetitive patterns of movements were used, and we might be able to hypothesise that these animals were engaged in mating behaviours. But we wouldn’t know just from those prints what their wings were doing, or what their call sounded like. That said, if we brought these animals back would they even behave like their ancient counterparts, if born of the lab and raised by humans? <br /><br />De-extinction may be an interesting and worthwhile thought experiment, and it may even raise awareness of the plight of modern endangered species, but for now we are safe from the island of dinosaurs, and even the dodo. <br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;color:#3f3f3f;">References<br /></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:16px;color:#3f3f3f;">Callaway, E. 2015. Mammoth genomes provide recipe for creating Arctic elephants. Nature News, 1st May 2015. </span><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/mammoth-genomes-provide-recipe-for-creating-arctic-elephants-1.17462" title=""><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:16px;color:#0000ee;text-decoration:underline;">http://www.nature.com/news/mammoth-genomes-provide-recipe-for-creating-arctic-elephants-1.17462</span></a><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:16px;color:#3f3f3f;">. Accessed 6th May 2015.</span><br /><span></span><br /><span></span></div> 265 266 </div> 267 268 269 <div class="blog-social "> 270 <div class="blog-social-item blog-fb-like"><fb:like href="http://www.uqpalaeo.com/1/post/2015/05/should-we-delve-into-de-extinction.html" width="90" layout="button_count" action="like" show_faces="false" share="false"></fb:like></div><div class="blog-social-item"><a class="twitter-share-button" href="http://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.uqpalaeo.com/1/post/2015/05/should-we-delve-into-de-extinction.html" data-text="Should we delve into de-extinction? - UQ Palaeo Blog" data-count="horizontal"></a></div> 271 <div style="clear:both"></div> 272 </div> 273 274 275 <div class="blog-comments-bottom"> 276 <a href="//www.uqpalaeo.com/blog-home/should-we-delve-into-de-extinction#comments" class="blog-link"> 277 1 Comment 278 </a> 279 280 </div> 281 282 <div class="blog-post-separator"></div> 283 </div> <div id="blog-post-871754829535128588" class="blog-post"> 284 285 286 <div class="blog-header"> 287 <h2 class="blog-title"> 288 <a class="blog-title-link blog-link" href="//www.uqpalaeo.com/blog-home/walking-with-dinosaurs-in-the-kimberley-csiro-and-uq-join-forces">'Walking with Dinosaurs in the Kimberley': CSIRO and UQ join forces</a> 289 290 </h2> 291 <p class="blog-date"> 292 <span class="date-text"> 293 5/5/2015 294 </span> 295 296 </p> 297 <p class="blog-comments"> 298 <a href="//www.uqpalaeo.com/blog-home/walking-with-dinosaurs-in-the-kimberley-csiro-and-uq-join-forces#comments" class="blog-link"> 299 1 Comment 300 </a> 301 302 </p> 303 </div> 304 305 <div class="blog-separator"> </div> 306 307 <div class="blog-content"> 308 <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">By <a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/dinosaurs/index.html?page=174167&pid=31446" target="_blank" title="">Caitlin Syme</a><br /><br /></div> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">Drones and dinosaurs, the perfect partnership!<br /><br />Our lab (<a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/dinosaurs/" target="_blank" title="">UQ Vertebrate Palaeontology and Biomechanics</a>) has teamed up with <a href="http://www.csiro.au/" target="_blank" title="">CSIRO</a>, <a href="http://www.airborneresearch.com.au/" target="_blank" title="">Airborne Research Australia</a> (Flinders University), and the <span style="background-color: initial;">Goolarabooloo Traditional Custodians and Yawuru Native Title holders to </span>map 130 million year old dinosaur footprints along the Broome coastline in Western Australia.<span style=""><span style=""><br /></span></span><br /><span style="">Find out more over at the news@CSIRO website: "</span><a href="http://csironewsblog.com/2015/05/05/walking-with-dinosaurs-advanced-science-recreates-ancient-past/" target="_blank" title="">Walking With Dinosaurs: Advanced science recreates ancient past</a>."<br /><span style=""><br /></span></div> <div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-none " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="/uploads/2/6/8/7/26870240/2895808_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%">Image by Damian Kelly Photography</div> </div></div> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">There will be more updates about this exciting project over the coming months on this blog. And if you'd like to see regular updates about this project, you can follow Dr Steve Salisbury (<a href="https://twitter.com/implexidens" target="_blank" title="" style="">@implexidens</a>) and Dr Anthony Romilio (<a href="https://twitter.com/a_romilio" target="_blank" title="" style="">@a_romilio</a>) on Twitter.</div> 309 310 </div> 311 312 313 <div class="blog-social "> 314 <div class="blog-social-item blog-fb-like"><fb:like href="http://www.uqpalaeo.com/1/post/2015/05/walking-with-dinosaurs-in-the-kimberley-csiro-and-uq-join-forces.html" width="90" layout="button_count" action="like" show_faces="false" share="false"></fb:like></div><div class="blog-social-item"><a class="twitter-share-button" href="http://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.uqpalaeo.com/1/post/2015/05/walking-with-dinosaurs-in-the-kimberley-csiro-and-uq-join-forces.html" data-text="'Walking with Dinosaurs in the Kimberley': CSIRO and UQ join forces - UQ Palaeo Blog" data-count="horizontal"></a></div> 315 <div style="clear:both"></div> 316 </div> 317 318 319 <div class="blog-comments-bottom">
320 <a href="//www.uqpalaeo.com/blog-home/walking-with-dinosaurs-in-the-kimberley-csiro-and-uq-join-forces#comments" class="blog-link"> 321 1 Comment 322 </a> 323 324 </div> 325 326 <div class="blog-post-separator"></div> 327 </div> <div id="blog-post-740959250545754041" class="blog-post"> 328 329 330 <div class="blog-header"> 331 <h2 class="blog-title"> 332 <a class="blog-title-link blog-link" href="//www.uqpalaeo.com/blog-home/phd-and-honours-projects-to-help-track-dinosaurs-in-the-kimberley">PhD and Honours projects to help track dinosaurs in the Kimberley</a> 333 334 </h2> 335 <p class="blog-date"> 336 <span class="date-text"> 337 4/5/2015 338 </span> 339 340 </p> 341 <p class="blog-comments"> 342 <a href="//www.uqpalaeo.com/blog-home/phd-and-honours-projects-to-help-track-dinosaurs-in-the-kimberley#comments" class="blog-link"> 343 2 Comments 344 </a> 345 346 </p> 347 </div> 348 349 <div class="blog-separator"> </div> 350 351 <div class="blog-content"> 352 <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">By <a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/dinosaurs/index.html?page=14078&pid=31446" target="_blank">Dr Steve Salisbury</a></span><br /><br /></div> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:justify;">We are looking for motivated PhD and Honours students to help research the dinosaur tracks of the Broome Sandstone on the Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. The Kimberley’s ‘dinosaur coast’ preserves what is arguably one the largest and most significant stretches of dinosaur track-sites in the world. Despite recent National Heritage listing, the majority of these tracksites are largely undocumented, such that their full scientific significance is poorly understood.</div> <div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-thin " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="/uploads/2/6/8/7/26870240/8748071_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:100%;max-width:492px" />
352 </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%">Anthony Romilio, Dr Steve Salisbury and Jay Nair (from left to right) examine newly discovered theropod tracks at Jungkurr–Ngakalyalya. Photo: Damian Kelly Photography.</div> </div></div> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:justify;">As part of a three year <a href="http://researchers.uq.edu.au/research-project/21124" title="">ARC Discovery Project (2014­­–2016)</a>, our aim is to digitally map the dinosaur tracksites of the Dampier Peninsula, utilising high-resolution aerial photography with both manned and unmanned aircraft, airborne and hand-held LiDAR imaging, and digital photogrammetry. The results will allow us to construct high-resolution, 3D digital outcrop models of the tracksites, and bring the 130 million-year-old landscapes back to life.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span></div> <div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-thin " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="/uploads/2/6/8/7/26870240/2461520.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:100%;max-width:400px" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%">Dr Steve Salisbury (left) and Anthony Romilio (right) ducument a sauropod track at at Jungkurr–Ngakalyalya for 3D photogrammetry. Photo: Nigel Clarke.</div> </div></div> <div class="paragraph"> <strong style="" "mso-bidi-font-weight:="" normal"="">Potential research areas for PhD and Honours projects include the following:</strong><br /><ul><li>Detailed analysis and interpretation of new dinosaur tracksites using 3D laser scanning and digital photogrammetry;</li><li>Ichnotaxonomic, behavioural or biomechanical analysis of various types of dinosaur tracks (sauropods, thyreophorans, ornithopods, theropods);</li><li>Palaeoenvironmental analysis and palaeoecology of the Broome Sandstone and its biota (facies analysis, stratigraphy and palaeobiodiversity).</li></ul><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span> </div> <div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-thin " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="/uploads/2/6/8/7/26870240/5828394_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:100%;max-width:598px" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%">Broome Dinosaur Trackers Damien Hirsch (left) and Louise Middleton (right) help Goolarabooloo Law Boss Richard Hunter (centre) uncover new tracks north of Walmadany. Photo: Nigel Clarke</div> </div></div> <div class="paragraph"> All projects are expected to involve some amount of fieldwork, and funding is set aside to facilitate this. The ARC project will nominally involve three ~10 day field trips each year, with the timing contingent on tides and weather conditions.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span> Good spoken and written English is desirable. Applicants should ideally have a background in either palaeontology, ichnology, comparative anatomy, biomechanics, sedimentary geology, or digital 3D visualisation.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span> <strong>Please send expressions of interest, along with a CV and academic transcript, to <a title="" href="http://www.uq.edu.au/dinosaurs/index.html?page=14078&pid=31446">Dr Steve Salisbury</a>. <br /><span></span></strong></div> <div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-thin " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="/uploads/2/6/8/7/26870240/4784643_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:100%;max-width:400px" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%">Early morning tracking session at Yinara. Photo: Steve Salisbury</div> </div></div> <div class="paragraph"> For more background information on the Dinosaur Coast and the recent battle to save it from large-scale industrial development, <a style="" title="" href="http://www.uq.edu.au/dinosaurs/index.html?page=157055&pid=14092">click here</a>.<br /><br /> ABC <em style="">Catalyst</em> --<a style="" title="" href="http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3603069.htm"> Kimberley Dinosaurs</a> (video + transcript) <a style="" title="" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV5x6UMkuuY">YouTube</a><br /><br /> <strong>For more information about other potential Honours and PhD projects in the Vertebrate Palaeontology and Biomechanics Lab, <a style="" title="" href="http://www.uq.edu.au/dinosaurs/index.html?page=47989&pid=0">click here</a>.</strong><br /><br /></div> <div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-thin " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="/uploads/2/6/8/7/26870240/1639198_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:100%;max-width:400px" />
352 </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%">All our research is conducted with the consent and collaboration of the area's Traditional Custodians and the Broome Dinosaur Trackers. Goolarabooloo Law Boss Phillip Roe (left) and Yawuru elder Micklo Corpus (right) during a recent fieldtrip. Photo: Steve Salisbury.</div> </div></div> <div><div style="height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;"></div> <hr class="styled-hr" style="width:100%;"></hr> <div style="height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;"></div></div> <div class="paragraph"><span></span><strong style="">UQ's Honours program</strong><br /><span style=""></span>For more information about Honours in the School of Biological Sciences, <a title="" href="http://biology.uq.edu.au/honours-program-information">click here</a>.<br /><span style=""></span><br /><span style=""></span> <strong style="">UQ's PhD program</strong><br /><span style=""></span>Acceptance into UQ's PhD program is contingent on a meeting the UQ entry requirements. Overseas applications are encouraged, as the School of Biological Sciences has made available a number of competitive international PhD scholarships. <br /><ul><li> For general information about how to enroll in UQ’s Research Higher Degree program, <a title="" href="http://www.uq.edu.au/grad-school/how-to-apply">click here </a></li><li> For more information on International PhD scholarships in School of Biological Sciences (UQ), <a title="" href="http://www.biology.uq.edu.au/scholarships">click here</a></li><li> For more information on International PhD scholarships offered at The University of Queensland, <a title="">click here</a> </li><li> For further information on PhD scholarships for Australian students offered at The University of Queensland, <a title="" href="http://www.uq.edu.au/grad-school/domestic-student-scholarships">click here</a> </li></ul><br /><span style=""></span> </div> <div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-thin " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="/uploads/2/6/8/7/26870240/5220687_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:100%;max-width:600px" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%">The Cretaceous ghosts of Walmadany. Image: ABC graphics designer Toby Goulding.</div> </div></div> 353 354 </div> 355 356 357 <div class="blog-social "> 358 <div class="blog-social-item blog-fb-like"><fb:like href="http://www.uqpalaeo.com/1/post/2015/05/phd-and-honours-projects-to-help-track-dinosaurs-in-the-kimberley.html" width="90" layout="button_count" action="like" show_faces="false" share="false"></fb:like></div><div class="blog-social-item"><a class="twitter-share-button" href="http://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.uqpalaeo.com/1/post/2015/05/phd-and-honours-projects-to-help-track-dinosaurs-in-the-kimberley.html" data-text="PhD and Honours projects to help track dinosaurs in the Kimberley - UQ Palaeo Blog" data-count="horizontal"></a></div> 359 <div style="clear:both"></div> 360 </div> 361 362 363 <div class="blog-comments-bottom"> 364 <a href="//www.uqpalaeo.com/blog-home/phd-and-honours-projects-to-help-track-dinosaurs-in-the-kimberley#comments" class="blog-link"> 365 2 Comments 366 </a> 367 368 </div> 369 370 <div class="blog-post-separator"></div> 371 </div> <div id="blog-post-550204262237110086" class="blog-post"> 372 373 374 <div class="blog-header"> 375 <h2 class="blog-title"> 376 <a class="blog-title-link blog-link" href="//www.uqpalaeo.com/blog-home/the-enigma-of-dome-headed-dinosaurs">The enigma of dome-headed dinosaurs</a> 377 378 </h2> 379 <p class="blog-date"> 380 <span class="date-text"> 381 10/7/2014 382 </span> 383 384 </p> 385 <p class="blog-comments"> 386 <a href="//www.uqpalaeo.com/blog-home/the-enigma-of-dome-headed-dinosaurs#comments" class="blog-link"> 387 2 Comments 388 </a> 389 390 </p> 391 </div> 392 393 <div class="blog-separator"> </div> 394 395 <div class="blog-content"> 396 <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.uq.edu.au/dinosaurs/index.html?page=174167&pid=31446">Caitlin Syme</a><br /></div> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><br /><span></span>As palaeontologists, we spend quite a bit of time trawling the internet to keep up-to-date with new fossil discoveries and hypotheses. The UQ Palaeo Blog is a great place for us to let you know about the interesting and exciting ideas we've uncovered, such as this new study on the preservation and taphonomy of pachycephalosaur skulls.<br /><span><br /><span>Enjoy!</span></span></div> <div><div style="height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;"></div> <hr class="styled-hr" style="width:100%;"></hr> <div style="height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;"></div></div> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><a style="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachycephalosauria" target="_blank" title="">Pachycephalosaurids</a> are a well know group of <a style="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithischian" target="_blank" title="">ornithischian</a> dinosaurs from North America. If the name doesn't ring a bell, maybe these pictures will - apparently, the poor things were almost constantly butting heads with rivals, or charging off head-first for no apparent reason:</div> <div class="wsite-spacer" style="height:21px;"></div> <div><div class="wsite-multicol"><div class='wsite-multicol-table-wrap' style='margin:0 -15px'> <table class='wsite-multicol-table'> <tbody class='wsite-multicol-tbody'> <tr class='wsite-multicol-tr'> <td class='wsite-multicol-col' style='width:50.45871559633%;padding:0 15px'> <div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-thin " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:right"> <a> <img src="/uploads/2/6/8/7/26870240/915190385.jpg?297" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div> <div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-thin " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:right"> <a> <img src="/uploads/2/6/8/7/26870240/492663056.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:100%;max-width:292px" />
396 </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div> </td> <td class='wsite-multicol-col' style='width:49.54128440367%;padding:0 15px'> <div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-thin " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:left"> <a> <img src="/uploads/2/6/8/7/26870240/555365410.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:100%;max-width:321px" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div> <div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-thin " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:left"> <a> <img src="/uploads/2/6/8/7/26870240/799011422.jpg?325" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div></div></div> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:center;">I always feel a sympathetic headache come on when looking at these pictures. Images from top left clockwise: <a style="" href="http://www.rareresource.com/pho_pachycephalosaurus.htm" target="_blank" title="">rareresource.com</a>; <a style="" href="http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lcbk" target="_blank" title="">Maichol Quinto and Florian Stitz</a> - Paizo Publishing; <a style="" href="http://www.uwosh.edu/beyond/stories/ryan-steiskal/ryan-steiskal-2" title="">Ryan Steiskal</a>; <a style="" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pachycephalosaurus.jpg" target="_blank" title="">Wikimedia Commons</a>.</div> <div class="wsite-spacer" style="height:21px;"></div> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">While most debate has focussed on the <a style="" href="http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/19/butting-heads-over-skull-injuries-and-dinosaur-head-butts/" target="_blank" title="">function and behaviour</a> of these dome-crested dinos, palaeontologists have also puzzled over why the dome-shaped skull is the most commonly preserved part of the pachycephalosaur skeleton. Researchers noticed that the domes were rounded and heavily worn, and presumed they had been bumped, scratched and scraped as they were carried along by rivers. From that, they inferred that pachycephalosaurs probably lived up-river from where their 'tough' skulls were eventually washed to and buried, and that the rest of the skeleton was broken down or lost on the down-river journey.<br /><span><br /><span></span></span>This hypothesis suggests that the domes are <a style="" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/allochthonous" target="_blank" title="">allochthonous</a> – 'foreign' to the host rock, transported far from where the pachycephalosaurs lived, instead of <a style="" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/autochthonous" target="_blank" title="">autochthonous</a> – 'native' to the host rock, fossilised near to where the pachycephalosaurs lived.<br /><span><br /><span></span></span>Jordan C. Mallon and David C. Evans refute this long-held view (what they call the 'Transport Hypothesis'). Instead, they propose in their new paper, "<a style="" href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/let.12082/abstract" target="_blank" title="">Taphonomy and habitat preference of North American pachycephalosaurids (Dinosauria, Ornithischia)</a>", that (1) pachycephalosaur domes actually aren't actually that rounded, (2) roundness doesn't correlate with the distance a dome skull travelled anyway, and (3) pachycephalosaur fossils aren't more common in the up-river, <a style="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermontane" target="_blank" title="">intermontane</a> areas that they supposedly habited. <br /><br />They suggest that the domes are actually autochthonous, or possibly <a style="" href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parautochthonous" target="_blank" title="">parautochthonous</a> – that pachycephalosaurs lived in <a style="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluvial_plain" target="_blank" title="">alluvial</a> and <a style="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_plain" target="_blank" title="">coastal</a> lowlands, closer to where their remains were fossilised than previously thought.<br /><br />This new hypothesis may not be popular – the 'Transport Hypothesis' has been around since the 1930's. And unlike the 'Transport Hypothesis', it doesn't quite explain why there are many more dome skulls preserved than the rest of the skeleton. But just because an idea may not be popular, does not mean it is incorrect. I look forward to seeing how the rest of the scientific community responds to the hypothesis proposed in this paper.</div> <div class="wsite-spacer" style="height:22px;"></div> <div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-thin " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center"> <a> <img src="/uploads/2/6/8/7/26870240/461287665.jpg?316" alt="Picture" style="width:auto;max-width:100%" /> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:center;"><font size="2">Fossil pachycephalosaur domes, showing the 4 stages of dome wear as classified by Mallon et al., 2014. The ventral (underside) and left lateral (left side) of each dome is shown. The skulls belong to the following species: Stage 0 – <em style="">Hanssuesia sternbergi</em> (CMN9148), Stage 1 – <em style="">Prenocephale brevis</em> (CMN8819), Stage 2 and 3 – <em style="">Sphaerotholus edmontonensis</em> (CMN8830 and CMN8832 respectively). </font>Image from Mallon et al (2014).</div> <div class="wsite-spacer" style="height:28px;"></div> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><strong style="">References</strong><br /><br />Mallon, J.C., Evans, D.C. 2014. Taphonomy and habitat preference of North American pachycephalosaurids (Dinosauria, Ornithischia). 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This is a promotion aimed at school kids (and anyone else who's into dinosaurs!) in regional parts of Queensland and northern NSW, run through <a style="" href="http://www.qt.com.au/news/fantastic-dinosaur-collector-card-series-on-offer/2260275/" target="_blank" title="">The Queensland Times</a>, <a style="" href="http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/news/join-queensland-expert-our-very-own-dinosaur-chat/2253789/" target="_blank" title="">The Morning Bulletin</a>, <a style="" href="http://www.coffscoastadvocate.com.au/news/join-queensland-expert-our-very-own-dinosaur-chat/2253789/" target="_blank" title="">The Coffs Coast Advocate</a>, <a style="" href="http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/join-queensland-expert-our-very-own-dinosaur-chat/2253789/" target="_blank" title="">The Sunshine Coast Daily</a>, and <a style="" href="http://www.northernstar.com.au/news/dont-miss-a-card/2263203/" target="_blank" title="">The Northern Star</a>. <br><span><br><span>The Q & A session </span></span>was a lot of fun, and there were some great questions! We tried to answer as many questions as we could in the time allocated (1 hour), and with a question hitting our screens every minute or so, it was hard to keep up. But we got there in the end! <br><span><br><span></span></span>If you had a question but didn't get to post it, please do so in the comments section at the end of this page. Below is a transcript of the session as it unfolded online, with edits from me afterwards in square brackets [like this]. The <a title="" href="http://www.qt.com.au/news/join-queensland-expert-our-very-own-dinosaur-chat/2253789/">APN dinosaur page</a> is still up, so check it out if you missed it. <br><span><br><span></span></span>The APN Dinosaur Collector Card series runs from now until 21 June. There are heaps of fun games, dino facts, quizzes, etc <a title="" href="http://bit.ly/ScrZNl">here</a>.<br><span><br><span></span></span>Clive Palmer, if you're out there, I'd like a response to our comment please!<br><span></span><br><span></span> </div> <div><div class="wsite-image wsite-image-border-thin " style="padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:left"> <a> <img src="/uploads/2/6/8/7/26870240/4239107_orig.jpg" alt="Picture" style="width:100%;max-width:300px"> </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><strong>Moderator: </strong><br><br>Hi everybody, we're about to start so we'll just check that everything works first up. <br><br><strong>Comment From </strong>DakDak <br><br>Hi everyone!<br><br><strong>Comment From </strong>Guest <br><br>Hi Steve, My Name is Sage from Katoomba. I have a question regarding the recently discovered sauropod at Argentina- Do you think it is just a large specimen of Argentinasauros? 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489 </a> <div style="display:block;font-size:90%"></div> </div></div> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:center;"><em>Nice to see a common mistake about our flying reptile friends cleared up! <br />Image taken from the <a href="http://dino.northernstar.com.au/cards.php" target="_blank" title="">Prehistoric Playtime website</a>.</em><br /><br /></div> <div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">If you want to learn more about these ancient animals, Dr Steve Salisbury from The University of Queensland (the head of the UQ Palaeontology Lab) will be hosting an online palaeontology Q&A session on Tuesday, June 3 from 11am to 12 noon. You can ask him questions during the session, or email your questions before the session begins to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5c313d2e37392835323b1c3d2c32723f3331723d29" title=""><strong><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ddb0bcafb6b8a9b4b3ba9dbcadb3f3beb2b0f3bca8">[email protected]</span></strong></a>. Be sure to visit your favourite newspaper website and <a href="http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/join-queensland-expert-our-very-own-dinosaur-chat/2253789/" target="_blank" title="">sign up for a reminder email</a> so you don't miss out!<br /><br />These cards are available to collect between the 17th May to the 21st June. So, get collecting!<br /></div> 490 491 </div> 492 493 494 <div class="blog-social "> 495 <div class="blog-social-item blog-fb-like"><fb:like href="http://www.uqpalaeo.com/1/post/2014/05/extra-extra-get-your-ancient-reptiles-here.html" width="90" layout="button_count" action="like" show_faces="false" share="false"></fb:like></div><div class="blog-social-item"><a class="twitter-share-button" href="http://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.uqpalaeo.com/1/post/2014/05/extra-extra-get-your-ancient-reptiles-here.html" data-text="Extra, extra! Get your ancient reptiles here! - UQ Palaeo Blog" data-count="horizontal"></a></div> 496 <div style="clear:both"></div> 497 </div> 498 499 500 <div class="blog-comments-bottom"> 501 <a href="//www.uqpalaeo.com/blog-home/extra-extra-get-your-ancient-reptiles-here#comments" class="blog-link"> 502 2 Comments 503 </a> 504 505 </div> 506 507 <div class="blog-post-separator"></div> 508 </div> 509 510 511<!-- bid: $blog_id --></div> 512 </div> 513 </td> 514 <td class="blog-sidebar" valign="top"> 515 <div id="723608781166409766-sidebar" class="column-blog"> 516 <div class="blog-sidebar-separator"> 517 <ul id="723608781166409766-sidebar-list" class="columnlist-blog" style="margin:0; padding: 0;"> 518 <h2 class="blog-archives-title" style="text-align:left;">Archives</h2> 519<p class="blog-archive-list"> 520 <a href="/blog-home/archives/05-2015" class="blog-link">May 2015</a> 521 <br /> 522 <a href="/blog-home/archives/07-2014" class="blog-link">July 2014</a> 523 <br /> 524 <a href="/blog-home/archives/06-2014" class="blog-link">June 2014</a> 525 <br /> 526 <a href="/blog-home/archives/05-2014" class="blog-link">May 2014</a> 527 <br /> 528</p> 529 530<h2 class="blog-category-title" style="text-align:left;">Posts by author<br /></h2> 531<p class="blog-category-list"> 532 <a href="/blog-home/category/all" class="blog-link">All</a> 533 <br /> 534 <a href="/blog-home/category/caitlin-syme" class="blog-link">Caitlin Syme</a> 535 <br /> 536 <a href="/blog-home/category/steve-salisbury" class="blog-link">Steve Salisbury</a> 537 <br /> 538 <a href="/blog-home/category/tamara-fletcher" class="blog-link">Tamara Fletcher</a> 539 <br /> 540</p> 541 542<p class="blog-feed-link"> 543 <a href="/1/feed"> 544 <img src="//cdn1.editmysite.com/editor/images/common/bg_feed.gif" /> 545 RSS Feed 546 </a> 547</p> 548 549<h2 class="wsite-content-title" style="text-align:left;">Twitter feed</h2> 550 551<div><div id="568387063128437588" align="left" style="width: 100%; overflow-y: hidden;" class="wcustomhtml"><a class="twitter-timeline" href="https://twitter.com/implexidens" data-widget-id="595422020931887105">Tweets by @implexidens</a>
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