A new dinosaur found in amber and a tyrannosaur footprint in China
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
I KNOW DINO, LLC
4.7 • 653 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, |
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| 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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