Diplodocus skin was like jelly beans
Channel: Genuine Rockstars
Date: 2023-01-04

Tess Gallagher is an American paleontologist who is doing a masters at Bristol University in the UK. In the summer of 2019 she took her mother out on an excavation where they found diplodocus skin, which she proceeded to study. Listen to Tess explain how the scales of diplodocus looked and why larger animals should not have too much insulation!

Credits:

University of Bristol - Stefan Schweihofer – Pixabay
Sail boat - Xavier Turpain – Pixabay
Jurassic Park - @vidiots_official – Giphy
Dakota the Dinosaur mummy – Drumheller et al., 2022 - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275240
Elevation Science - https://elevationscience.org/
Thanks mom – www.simpsonsworld.com – giphy
Fossil bones - Kvnga – Unsplash
Mother’s Day Quarry – Tess Gallagher 
Museum of the Rockies - Jllm06 – Wikimedia
Museum Center Cincinnati - Ɱ - Wikimedia
Diplodocus bones - James St. John - Diplodocus sauropod dinosaurs (Morrison Formation, Upper Jurassic; Mother's Day Site, Carbon County, southern Montana, USA) – Wikimedia
Reconstruction juvenile Diplodocus – Woodruff et al., 2018 - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-32620-x
Dry season - Amir Irani – Pixabay
Dessicated raisins - Sandeep Handa – Pixabay
Cat mummy - https://metro.co.uk/2017/05/10/man-finds-mummified-cat-while-building-an-extension-6628438/
Dead cow desert - jodeng – Pixabay
Debris flow - https://youtu.be/jnIBW-GsoGU
Elephant - David Mark – Pixabay
Diplodocus with spikes - Dmitry Bogdanov - dmitrchel@mail.ru – Wikimedia
Python skin - István – Pixabay
Alligator skin - Susanne Jutzeler, Schweiz, - Pixabay
Crocodile leg - Pfüderi – Pixabay
Chinese waterdragon - InspiredImages – Pixabay
Ostriches - Anja – Pixabay
African elephants - md579 – Pixabay
Bristol - David Harper – Pixabay
Wissahickon - michaelwm25 – Wikimedia
Reptile skin thumbnail - Giulio Gabrieli – Unsplash
Feathers thumbnail - Manfred Richter - Pixabay