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I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

A new dinosaur found in amber and a tyrannosaur footprint in China

I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

I KNOW DINO, LLC

Iknowdino, Science, Dinosaurs, Dinosaur Podcast, Earth Sciences, Dinosaur, Natural Sciences, Education

4.7653 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Dinosaur of the day Patagonykus, The "Patagonian claw" alvarezsaur from the Cretaceous.

Interview with Annalisa Berta, a paleontologist and professor emerita at San Diego State University. She’s also the co-author, along with Dr. Susan Turner, of the upcoming book Women in Vertebrate Paleontology, which is a history of women bone hunters beginning in the late 1700s.

In dinosaur news this week:

  • Elektorornis chenguangi was named based on its fuzzy foot, which was found in amber
  • Elektorornis may have used its toe fuzz like birds use their facial bristles today
  • A team of paleontologists found the first ever Tyrannosauripus footprint in China
  • The Great Plains Dinosaur Museum is offering a dinosaur dig program for adults and kids in Malta, Montana
  • Leeds city centre, in the UK, has five animatronic dinosaurs for the next few weeks
  • In Fortnite Season X, there are weekly missions, including finding dinosaurs
  • The new anime series “Jurassic!” will combine a modern world and prehistoric animals

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0:31.6

Music Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. I'm Garrett.

0:48.1

And I'm Sabrina.

0:49.3

This week in our 247th episode, we have a bunch of news, including a shiny new dinosaur-founded Amber.

0:57.4

We also have a Tyrannosaur footprint from China and some new exhibits.

1:02.4

We also have an interview with Professor Annalisa Bertha, one of the co-authors on the book

1:07.7

Women Inverterate Paleontology, and we have Dinosaur of the Day,

1:11.9

Patagoninicus. But before we get into all of that, we want to thank some of our patrons,

1:17.4

who are right now helping to keep the podcast running, and they are Kyle, Brendan Kavanaugh,

1:23.7

the Tolbert family, Sean Tanagaki, Remy Rodriguez, Marcy, Rohan, Bradley, Bilal, Avery, Krispy,

1:34.0

Joaquin, Jeb from Arkansas, Aidan James, Albertosaurus, and Alan.

1:40.1

Yeah, thank you so much. As Garrett mentioned, Patreon is the thing that's keeping us in the podcast going.

1:45.5

So we appreciate all of your support. And we've got a lot of good things coming up, especially we're going to hit our milestone 250th episode.

1:52.5

And we're going to SVP in Australia. So if you want to join this group of amazing people and supporting the podcast, then check out our page at

2:01.1

patreon.com slash I know dino.

2:03.7

Jumping into the news, up first is our new dinosaur that was found in Amber.

2:08.7

This find was published in current biology by Lita Xing, Jingmei O'Connor and others,

2:14.2

because of course, Jingmei is on it.

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