Project Daspletosaurus Update

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.

Project Daspletosaurus!

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.