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I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

Alectrosaurus - Episode 198

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

🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Dinosaur of the day Alectrosaurus, A medium sized cretaceous tyrannosaur that lived along side Gigantoraptor.

In dinosaur news this week:

  • Three juveniles of a new iguanodontian species named Choyrodon barsboldi were found in Mongolia
  • A new Amargasaurus relative named Pilmatueia faundezi was found in Argentina
  • A fire destroyed most of the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro taking with it part of the Iritator holotype, Maxakalisaurus, and many other important fossils
  • They have requested anyone with photos of the exhibits to send them to thg.museo@gmail.com
  • The Museum of Prehistory in Brabant, Netherlands, will be presented with a new Diplodocus skeleton on October 10
  • Cincinnati Museum Center in Ohio is getting a 55% complete 30 ft long Torvosaurus skeleton in November
  • A T. rex skeleton nicknamed Roosevelt is on display at the Erin Martin Design showroom in Napa County, CA
  • A single industrial park in China is responsible for most of the dinosaur animatronics created in the world
  • A family in Great Falls, Montana created a mini sauropod sculpture
  • Google Chrome created a birthday edition of the running T. rex to celebrate its 10th anniversary
  • Mattel released an interactive robotic velociraptor toy called "Alpha Training Blue"

This episode is brought to you in part by TRX Dinosaurs, which makes beautiful and realistic dinosaur sculptures, puppets, and animatronics. You can see some amazing examples and works in progress on Instagram @trxdinosaurs

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:31.6

Music Hello and welcome to I know Dino. I'm Gary.

0:49.0

This week we have Dinosaur of the Day electros, and a bunch of dinosaur news.

0:54.6

But before we get into our news, we want to thank some of our patrons who helped make this

1:00.1

episode possible.

1:01.6

And this week, we would like to thank Scotty, Megan Dixon, Kessler, Tristan Jules,

1:08.1

Grandpa Dino, rhinosaurus, Morgan Eklove, Dr. Eganbot, Taylor, Lori, and Risa.

1:16.7

And Risa just joins, so thank you.

1:18.8

Yes, thank you so much.

1:20.6

We have a treat for all of our patrons since we're coming up on our 200th episode in just a couple short weeks.

1:28.4

Yeah, everybody who is a patron when our 200th episode comes out,

1:33.2

we'll get the top 10 dinosaurs of 2014 audiobook,

1:37.5

which I realize 2014 was a while ago.

1:42.4

But it's an audiobook.

1:44.1

Yeah, we just finally made the audiobook version, and we'll be making the audiobook versions of the other books at some time in the future.

1:52.3

Last week I mentioned that there were a couple of new dinosaurs that I hadn't talked about yet.

1:56.9

So I have two more new dinosaurs to talk about this week, and there'll be even more next week, I'm sure.

2:02.0

So the first one I'm going to talk about is an iguanadontian from Mongolia, which was described by Terry Gates and others.

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