Happy March! We're celebrating with a friendly Dino Duels Competition. Fill out a bracket to predict which dinosaur will win their matchups and you could win a prize!

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Dinosaur of the day Cumnoria, another dinosaur that was considered to be Camptosaurus for a while.

Here are the steps to enter the Dino Duels Competition:

• Check out our interactive Dinosaur Bracket at bit.ly/dinoduelsbracket and predict the dinosaur champions
• Then copy over your picks and submit them in the Google Form by March 11, 2025 at bit.ly/dinoduelspicks
• Go to bit.ly/dinoduelsrules for all the rules for the Dino Duels Competition

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Dinosaurs had a complex relationship with fungi and plants. We explore whether dinosaurs ate psychedelics, if they aided plant evolution, and even a carnivorous fungus.

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Dinosaur of the day Jeholornis, the first known bird to eat fruit.

Some of the main topics in this episode:

• The psychotropic fungus ergot in the Cretaceous
• Fungi in dinosaurian (Isisaurus) coprolites
• Dinosaurs feeding on flowering plants
• Dinosaur—angiosperm coevolution revisited
• "Hunting the Snark: the flawed search for mythical Jurassic angiosperms"
• Angiosperm evolution using phylogenomics
• Possible pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants
• Ancient pollen that may be from angiosperms
• How the end-Cretaceous extinction led to modern rainforests
• How plants fared after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

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Zofia led several expeditions to Mongolia where her team discovered hundreds of mammals and dinosaurs including Deinocheirus and the Fighting Dinosaurs (a velociraptor and Protoceratops who appear to have fossilized in the middle of a fight to the death).

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Dinosaur of the day Deinocheirus (revisited), a dinosaur that was once considered fearsome, but now more goofy. It's a unique herbivorous theropod with enormous arms and claws.

Two great books written by Zofia:

• In Pursuit of Early Mammals
• Hunting for dinosaurs

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