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I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

Afrovenator - Episode 99

I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

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

4.7653 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Brazil has a new largest titanosaur Austroposeidon magnificus, another titanosaur from Argentina had a nasty bone infection, terracotta dinosaur heads were made in Eastnor Castle, a 360° video of the Jurassic Coast, an enormous titanosaur footprint was found in Mongolia, a review of a new game on the Oculus Rift called “Jungle Dino VR”, and more. Also, dinosaur of the day Afrovenator, a megalosaurid theropod that lived in the middle Jurassic in what is now Niger.

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Hello and welcome to I Know Dino, the Big Dinosaur podcast, where we cover news, interviews, and discussions of all things

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dinosaur.

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Hello and welcome to I Know Dino.

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I'm Garrett, and Sabrina is away in Canada, but she'll magically appear for the Dinosaur of

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the Day.

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This week, our Dinosaur of the Day is Afrovenator. We have a ton of

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dinosaur news, and it's episode 99, which means the next episode will be episode 100. If you're

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interested in joining our growing Patreon community, please go to patreon.com slash I-N-O-D-N-O-D-N.

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And Patreon is P-A-T-R-E-O-N.

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So now jumping into the news, there's a new giant Titanosaur that was discovered in South America,

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but rather than Argentina, this one's from Brazil.

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And specifically, it's from Southeast Brazil near Sao Paulo to be specific.

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It's named OstroPasidon Magnificus, and the Austro means southern, in allusion to South America,

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and Poseidon was selected because of the Greek god with the same name,

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who was supposedly responsible for earthquakes.

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