Project Daspletosaurus has reached its pledge goal!
You can still pledge, though, and also buy some of the cool stuff offered by David Orr (Anatotitan) on his
Redbubble site.
Here's Dr. Hone's latest
update post!
Above is a special DINO A DAY T-shirt featuring one of David Orr's project logo design.
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| Daspletosaurus, Field Museum |
Paleontologist and prolific blogger Dave Hone (
Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings) has a potential new project in the works: a study of cannibalism in
Daspletosaurus. (
Daspletosaurus was a tyrannosaurid from a few million years earlier than
T.rex, and slightly smaller). As I understand it, he would be working with
Darren Tanke on analysis and prep work of one or more specimens (Darren Tanke is a preparator at the Royal Tyrell Museum and the one who led the
Dino Hunting by Boat Project a couple years back).
To help fund the project (i.e., travel expenses from the UK to Canada, supplies, publishing costs), he's set up a crowd-funding page at
Microryza: Cannibalism in Giant Tyrannosaurs. Check out the
Updates page and go
here for contributions/donor incentives by several renowned (paleo)artists, including Brett Booth, Luis Rey, and Julius Csotonyi.
In addition, David Orr of
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs has designed a logo and is offering merchandise (T-shirts!) for sale on his
RedBubble site (proceeds go to Project Daspletosaurus).
P.S. Yes, I ordered a T-shirt. Don't tell
Cyn.
