Pterosaur paper is out

Aug 20, 2015

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Pterosaur paper is outWell the second bonus paper is now published, also in PeerJ: https://peerj.com/articles/1191/ This was a bit unexpected (well I knew I'd submitted it, but not that it would be out today) so I don't have anything special to go with it. Still, it's done, and it's online and can be read for free.

This will then be my last update on this project - everything is done and published in the scientific literature, so this really is the end. My thanks again to everyone who has sponsored and helped with this project, it really could never have happened without you. 

It's taken a while of course, but we now have two scientific papers published from this one project and I and others have accounts paid for with PeerJ that will help facilitate future publications. That is, I hope, a good return! 
Cheers.

Dave

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Cindy WuBacker

Time to celebrate! :tada:

Aug 20, 20150

Denny LuanBacker

Congratulations!

Aug 20, 20150

About This Project

Cannibalism in Giant Tyrannosaurs

This is the key question we hope to answer with this study. This project is to fund research into a skull of the carnivorous dinosaur Daspletosaurus (a close relative of Tyrannosaurus) which shows traces of biting from another, large carnivore, most likely another Daspletosaurus. Analysis of this exciting specimen will reveal which bite where made, where and how on the skull, and detailed comparisons to the skulls and teeth of other carnivorous dinosaurs from the area will allow the identity of the feeding animal. Study of the pattern of the bites and breaks can reveal how these bites were applied and thus how the scavenging animal had fed.