Random Act of Anatomy - WitmerLab tour - Science Café - 2020-10-05 HD

Join Prof. Lawrence Witmer and his research students to celebrate National Fossil Day for "Random Acts of Anatomy, A Live Guided Tour of Witmer Lab." This video was originally a livestream broadcast as part of Ohio University’s Science Café series. Feel free to post any questions in the comments section and Witmer will try to answer the, as soon as possible. For further information… 1. Read the Ohio University announcement about the National Geographic Magazine article: https://bit.ly/3ngKrUx. Read the Nat Geo article: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/reimagining-dinosaurs/ 2. Visit the National Fossil Day (NFD) webpage on the U.S. National Park Service’s site: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fossilday/index.htm. Learn about and download the NFD “Prehistoric Life Coloring Book”: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fossils/coloring-book.htm. 3. Check out WitmerLab online: • WitmerLab: http://www.WitmerLab.com • YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/witmerlab • Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/witmerlab • Sketchfab: https://sketchfab.com/witmerlab • Instagram (@WitmerLab): https://www.instagram.com/witmerlab/ • Twitter (@WitmerLab): https://twitter.com/WitmerLab 4. Web video series • Random Acts of Anatomy: http://bit.ly/2ylQcsX • Dissecting with Emily (with Emily Caggiano): http://bit.ly/2f0AUkE 5. Dig into published research articles mentioned during the livestream. • Reconstructing soft-tissues and behavior in fossils (Witmer 1995): https://bit.ly/3nfw0ju • Skull structure in Majungasaurus (Sampson & Witmer 2007): http://bit.ly/2t96lAT • Skin textures in dinosaurs (Hieronymus et al. 2009): http://bit.ly/2xp60Zt • Rhino horn growth & form (Hieronymus et al. 2006): http://bit.ly/2fhEsx4 • Stegoceras nasal airflow (Bourke et al. 2014): http://bit.ly/2JI6RLn • Allosaurus head & neck function (Snively et al. 2013): http://bit.ly/2Ui4rHd • T. rex brain & sensory behavior (Witmer & Ridgely 2009): http://bit.ly/2BoKIfx • Air sinuses in T. rex & other dinosaurs (Witmer & Ridgely 2008): http://bit.ly/2JLIC14 • Brain-cooling in T. rex & other dinosaurs (Porter & Witmer 2019): http://bit.ly/2p5ybwB • Jaw muscles & blood vessels in T. rex (Holliday et al. 2019): http://bit.ly/2k1Hw6p • Skull mechanics & kinesis in T. rex (Cost et al. 2019): https://bit.ly/2SsXBj7 • Juvenile tyrannosaur Tarbosaurus skull (Tsuihiji et al. 2011): http://bit.ly/2xDNShQ • Brain structure in sauropods & other dinosaurs (Witmer et al. 2008): http://bit.ly/2x2EfUU • Brain & crest in lambeosaur Hypacrosaurus (Evans et al. 2009): https://bit.ly/3kh7fRG • Brains & endocasts in birds (Early et al. 2020a, b): https://bit.ly/3it6sNc, https://bit.ly/32pnZA1 • Physiology of nasal airflow in ankylosaurs (Bourke et al. 2018): http://bit.ly/2EwOzMO 6. Support for WitmerLab research provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the OU Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, and the Chang Ying-Chien Professorship of Paleontology. 7. For help with this livestream, we than