Ampelosaurus - Episode 192
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
I KNOW DINO, LLC
4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Dinosaur of the day Ampelosaurus, a "dwarf" sauropod that was only 52ft long and weighed 8 tons.
In dinosaur news this week:
- The first ever diplodcoid from East Asia was discovered, Lingwulong shenqi, and it's also incredibly old for an advanced sauropod
- The new Deep Time exhibit coming to the Smithsonian in 2019 will feature a T. rex biting the frill of a Triceratops
- Dickinson Dinosaur Museum in North Dakota has a new claws exhibit to show the correlation between dinosaurs and modern birds
- The Dinosaur Room in Rio’s National Museum recently reopened after a renovation
- In the month of August, if you donate to certain Goodwills, you can get free kids tickets to Dinosaur World
- A 16-year-old in the UK built a replica Allosaurus from scrap metal
- In Las Vegas a man setup projectors outside his daughter's window to simulate dinosaurs looking at her
- A real estate agent made a listing go viral using an inflatable T. rex costume
- There’s a Stegosaurus that holds nachos (the nachosaurus)
- Robert Kirkman, who created the comic The Walking Dead, is now working on a new project called Super Dinosaur
- Our five-year-old listner Remy was featured in a University of Alberta article after choosing Alberta as his birthday destination—for the dinosaurs of course
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| 0:31.6 | Music Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:48.3 | This week we have Dinosaur of the Day, Amplosaurus, and a bunch of dinosaur news. But first, as always, we like to |
| 0:56.0 | thank some of our Stegosaurus patrons who help us keep this podcast going. And this week, |
| 1:01.4 | we would like to thank Lucas and Eli, Wyatt, the Georgia's family, John Heck, Janice, Ranger |
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| 1:14.3 | Yeah, thanks so much for all your support. |
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| 1:18.4 | As you can see, the list is starting to fill up. |
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| 1:31.5 | Oh, and just a heads up for next week. |
| 1:33.9 | We're going to have an interview with the author of Bolivar, Sean Rubin. |
| 1:38.1 | So if you'd like to read that book in advance so you know what we're talking about, I would recommend it. It's a graphic |
| 1:44.8 | novel. It's what, 120 pages? It's over 200 pages. Oh yeah, I'm thinking 120 spreads because it's kind of |
| 1:51.7 | two pages at a time since it's a graphic novel. But you can read the whole thing in an hour or two. |
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