A new tiny-armed, gigantic, megapredator
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
I KNOW DINO, LLC
4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Zapalasaurus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Zapalasaurus-Episode-408/
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Dinosaur of the day Zapalasaurus, a basal diplodocoid sauropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Neuquén Province, Argentina.
In dinosaur news this week:
- A new carcharodontosaurid with tiny arms, Meraxes gigas, helps show that all large-headed carnivores had relatively small arms
- Gastroliths and Deinonychus teeth have been found associated with April the Tenontosaurus
- Scientists looked at the growth of the smallest (but not yet named) ornithopod that lived in what is now Spain
- An opalized fossil may be a new dinosaur species
- The Australian Opal Centre hosts an annual dinosaur fossil dig
- Ubirajara is being returned to Brazil
- Podokesaurus holyokensis became the official state dinosaur of Massachusetts
- Delaware has a state dinosaur, Dryptosaurus
- There are seven missing sculptures from Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
- Lottie, the Triceratops statue from Louisville, Kentucky got a makeover
- NBC is making a new natural history series show called Surviving Earth
- Stephen Fry is hosting Dinosaur — with Stephen Fry, a four part series about dinosaurs in the Jurassic and Cretaceous
- You can play Dinosaur Fossil Hunter on Steam
- Games Radar published a list of the 10 best dinosaur games
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| 0:41.4 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. I'm Garrett. |
| 0:42.1 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:50.8 | And today in our 408th episode, we have a whole bunch of news, including an awesome new, huge theropod from South America, which is way more complete than just one vertebra. |
| 0:55.6 | It's got tons of, it's like the most complete of its category. |
| 1:00.2 | This is a callback to last week. |
| 1:02.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.9 | This is such a cool dinosaur. |
| 1:04.5 | I'm very excited to talk about it. |
| 1:06.6 | And I know you have a bunch of news as well because there's so much to catch up on. |
| 1:10.3 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:11.1 | This is going to take many episodes. |
| 1:13.6 | Yes. |
| 1:14.8 | And then we also have Dinosaur of the Day, Zapalosaurus. |
| 1:18.4 | And you took over the fun fact again. |
| 1:20.9 | I miss doing the fun facts. |
| 1:22.9 | You can never let me do another fun fact? |
| 1:24.9 | Yeah, eventually, but there's a lot of cool news right now and a lot of cool fun facts. |
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