I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast I Know Dino

Baiyinosaurus was one of the earliest stegosaurs ever found (from the Middle Jurassic); Debate on the evolution of the tyrannosaur Daspletosaurus; Miragaia updates; And our latest Di-Know-It-All Challenge!

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Dinosaur of the day Miragaia, a stegosaur that may be a synonym of Dacentrurus (which was named first).

In dinosaur news this week:There’s a new stegosaur, Baiyinosaurus baojiensisA new study reaffirms that Daspletosaurus species evolved into one another (anagenesis)Elopteryx might be a strange climbing dinosaur with a long tail, and synonymous with Balaur 

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Plus an interview with Dr. Bruce Rubidge, expert in the Karoo Supergroup of South Africa, plus what we know about Triceratops from a bonebed, the second puzzle in the DI-KNOW-IT-ALL CHALLENGE, and more.

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Dinosaur of the day Minotaurasaurus, an ankylosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Mongolia (Djadochta Formation).

Interview with Bruce Rubidge, Professor Emeritus at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and he is an expert on the fossils in the Karoo Supergroup in southern Africa.

In dinosaur news this week:A Triceratops bonebed tells us more about how Triceratops lived and behavedThere’s a new dinosaur cemetery (bonebed) in Yunnan Province, China 

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Plus our first ever Di-Know-It-All puzzle, a new approach on the semi-aquatic Spinosaurus model, what whales and dinosaurs have in common, and more

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Dinosaur of the day Brodavis, a loon like dinosaur that probably hunted for fish in Cretaceous lakes.

In dinosaur news this week:There’s a new unenlagiine dromaeosaur, Diuqin lechiguanae, that was bitten hard enough to leave punctures on its upper arm boneScientists studied skull shapes of 99 animals to figure out how much time Spinosaurus spent in the waterThe sauropod at the NHM officially has a new nickname (same as the old nickname)Dinosaur Connection Challenge: Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) 

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Plus, more complexities to the dinosaur extinction and a new green Jurassic sauropod fossil

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Dinosaur of the day Pampadromaeus, one of the earliest known dinosaurs.

In dinosaur news this week:A new ceratopsian, Lokiceratops, had the biggest parietal frill ornamentation of any centrosaurineThe asteroid killed off the non-avian dinosaurs, but volcanic eruptions may have set the stage for their mass extinctionDust from the asteroid impact may have been the biggest factor in the non-avian dinosaurs going extinctStudying fossils can help us understand the deep past and predict our future (and how vulnerable we are to going extinct)The Los Angeles County Natural History Museum is doing a poll to nickname their new green Jurassic sauropod 

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This history of dromaeosaurs (better known as raptors). Plus an A to Z guide of the most common dinosaur terms and inside jokes from our first 500 episodes.

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Dinosaur of the day Deinonychus (revisited), a dinosaur famous for its sickle-claws and eating the hadrosaur Tenontosaurus.

Some highlights about dromaeosaurs:Dromaeosaurs have many bird like features in their shoulders, wrists, and feathersBoth with modern raptors (birds of prey) and dromaeosaurs the foot is the deadly weaponUtahraptor was discovered around the time the movie Jurassic Park came out, more recently a new huge block of Utahraptors was foundPaleontologist Bob Bakker tells a compelling story of a Utahraptor through her eyes in his novel Raptor RedPaleontologist John Ostrom named Deinonychus in 1969 (which also has ties to Jurassic Park)"The first definitive dromaeosaur with a reasonably complete skeleton ever found in the US" is nicknamed "Julietraptor"


Plus, I Know Dino A to Z (the most common dinosaur terms you should know)

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Over 300 theropod pathologies, a family found a juvenile Tyrannosaurus while hiking, there's a new poo (coprolite) museum, and Marisa Rodriguez joins from Ancient Odysseys to discuss how to get involved with paleontology as a citizen scientist

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Dinosaur of the day Anabisetia, a small quick ornithopod that is often overlooked because it lived among titanosaurs and some very large predators.

Interview with Marisa Rodriguez, a citizen scientist and founder of Ancient Odysseys, a site that helps people find paleontology and archaeology digs around the world.

In dinosaur news this week:Three new predatory dinosaurs from South America with pathologies and a review of all the documented theropod injuries and diseasesA family on a hike found a juvenile TyrannosaurusThere’s a new museum dedicated to fossilized poop (coprolite) in Williams, ArizonaThe fossil cabin (that's made from dinosaur bones) near Como Bluff in Wyoming may be getting moved soon 

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