"T-Rex is definitely weird even compared to all the other giant tyrannosaurs that are very closely related to it because it is by far ludicrously by far the largest carnivore in its ecosystem. So it do..."

"The following is a conversation with Dave Hone, a paleontologist, expert on dinosaurs, co-host of the Terrible Lizards podcast, and author of many scientific papers and books on the behavior and ecolo..."

"Let's start with the T-Rex dinosaur, possibly the most iconic predator in the history of Earth. You have deeply studied and written about their evolution biology ecology and behavior. So, let's uh fir..."

"So Luma, what did it eat? I mean, the you could go for the classic joke of whatever it wanted, but the reality is um the relatively big herbivores that are around at the time, it's probably largely le..."

"How far were they spread? Where do they Where did they live? So, the ones we found, you've got them from Alberta down to probably New Mexico. There's some I want to say there's some Tyrannosaurine, so..."

"journey of Stan to the museum to like you get you get to the process of cleaning everything, stitching it all together. Yeah, like Mark and like that suggested, you know, this can be even on an animal..."

"we've taken a few tangents, but let's uh continue on the thread of T-Rex. Go to the skull. Yeah. So, uh the skull of T-Rex is iconic. You describe it as being incredibly robust and overbuilt. Yeah, th..."

"The size of a Voleropter was uh exaggerated by Jurassic Park enormously. I mean, they get a bit bigger than this in terms of the skull, but yeah, they they're kind of thigh high to me, like a meter or..."

"So there's pack hunting but there's also sociality which is such an interesting idea is how did they live and this is something you look at that paleontology doesn't often touch is like the lives. Yea..."

"single superlative specimens and then try and teach them as a like a silver bullet almost. So, Microaptor, I mentioned this before, little flying dinosaur crows or gliding dinosaur crows thing from Ch..."

"mentioned a bunch of the stuff that the Jurassic Park series gets wrong. Uh maybe you could speak to more things, but also what does it get right? So, a a lot of like very in some level generic but qu..."

"intelligence. What we know about the intelligence of let's say T-Rex. We talked about his big head. What do we know about Not much. So there's there's a T-Rex brain or at least a very rough cast of pa..."

"I forgot to ask you about. Yeah. So, a T-Rex engage in cannibalism. Yeah, almost certainly. Well, certainly. I think we've got um there's a T-Rex bone with a T-Rex embedded tooth in it with with overg..."

"Extinction. Yep. How did the dinosaurs go extinct? Mostly probably pretty quickly, but it really is the answer that I think most people are now probably familiar with, which is it's an asteroid impact..."

"knows, dragons are obviously real. I I've been asked that on live TV before, only not with the sarcastic tone. Do you dare disagree with this notion? Yes, I I I I do. if they don't. And and again, I t..."

"Got to ask you the ridiculous question. Uh we do have dinosaurs here on Earth today. They're birds. Yep. Um 10 and a half 11,000 species of dinosaur. Are birds dinosaurs? Yes. Yeah. Isn't that it's ju..."

"that there's a giant uh dinosaur head next to you and you didn't mention it once during this conversation. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz I thought I thought we'd get Well, I mean giant. He's an absolute diddy one. ..."