Rare dinosaur species being studied at the Cincinnati Museum Center

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]FULL VOTE COULD COME AS SOON AS TOMORROW.

[00:00:03]546 JUST ABOUT 547 RIGHT NOW WORK IS BEING DONE HERE IN CINCINNATI TO HELP US BETTER UNDERSTAND PREHISTORIC WORLD, SPECIFICALLY DINOSAURS.

[00:00:12]IT’S A JOINT PROJECT BETWEEN THE CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER AND EXPERTS IN PITTSBURGH.

[00:00:16]NEWS 5 ADAM BURNISTON IS LIVE AT THE MUSEUM CENTER WITH WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.

[00:00:21]ADAM, YOU ARE A METEOROLOGIST TRADING THAT IN FOR PALEONTOLOGY TODAY.

[00:00:26]YEAH, KIND OF A SECONDARY FIELD.

[00:00:28]IT HADN’T REALLY KNOWN MUCH ABOUT PALEONTOLOGY BESIDES JUST BEING A FAN OF DINOSAURS, WHICH, BY THE WAY, WHO IS.

[00:00:35]AND I GET TO BE A FIVE YEAR OLD TODAY IN A SENSE, BUT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS DINOSAUR RIGHT HERE, THE TORVOSAURUS.

[00:00:41]IT’S BEEN ON DISPLAY HERE AT THE MUSEUM CENTER FOR A LITTLE WHILE.

[00:00:45]YOU’VE LIKELY SEEN IT, BUT YOU MAY NOT KNOW ITS HISTORY.

[00:00:49]AND WHAT MAKES THIS RESEARCH SO UNIQUE IS THAT THIS FOSSIL IS ONE OF THE ONLY KIND, ONE OF ONE OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD.

[00:00:58]NOW, THE TORVOSAURUS WAS AN APEX PREDATOR LIVING ABOUT.

[00:01:03]146 TO 165 MILLION YEARS AGO.

[00:01:05]RECENTLY, AS YOU’RE SEEING VIDEO PALEONTOLOGISTS HERE AT THE CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER TOOK THE DISPLAY APART PIECE BY PIECE, BONE BY BONE TO 3D SCAN.

[00:01:13]ALL OF THEM.

[00:01:14]THESE.

[00:01:14]WITH THESE 3D MODELS, THEY’LL BE ABLE TO VIEW AND MEASURE THE FOSSIL FROM ALL SIDES WITHOUT HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT HARMING THE ORIGINAL BONE.

[00:01:23]WHAT MAKES THIS TORVOSAURUS HERE SO UNIQUE IS THAT, AS I MENTIONED, PALEONTOLOGISTS HAVE AROUND 50% OF THE ORIGINAL BONES, ALL FROM THE SAME LOCATION.

[00:01:34]EXPERTS SAY THAT’S EXTREMELY RARE, ESPECIALLY FOR THESE LARGER DINOSAURS.

[00:01:39]DINOSAUR SKELETONS ARE ALMOST NEVER FOUND COMPLETE, AND THAT’S ESPECIALLY TRUE WITH PREDATORY DINOSAURS, IN PARTICULAR THE GIANT ONES.

[00:01:47]SO HAVING, AGAIN, ABOUT 50% OF THE SKELETON OF A DINOSAUR, THAT’S ABOUT TWO THIRDS THE SIZE OF T-REX IS A REALLY RARE AND REMARKABLE THING.

[00:01:58]NOW, I MENTIONED EARLIER THE T-REX AND TORVOSAURUS SEPARATE EACH OTHER ABOUT 80 MILLION YEARS, AND WHILE THEY MAY BE DISTANT COUSINS, THIS TORVOSAURUS TYPICALLY HAS A LONGER SNOUT TO LONGER NOSE AND ALSO HAS LONGER ARMS, WHICH LIKELY HELPED IT HUNT DOWN SOME OF ITS PREY.

[00:02:17]BACK IN THAT TIME OF THE JURASSIC AREA.

[00:02:19]SO WE’LL HAVE MUCH MORE ON THIS RESEARCH.

[00:02:22]THE RESEARCH CONTINUING HERE, OBVIOUSLY, THEY’VE PUT IT BACK TOGETHER, BUT THERE’S STILL A MONTHS AHEAD OF SOME RESEARCH AND MORE PAPERS TO COME.

[00:02:29]SO WE’LL BE TALKING ABOUT THAT MUCH MOR