Ankylosaur and sauropod tail weapons plus a paleo controversy
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Episode 423: Ankylosaur and sauropod tail weapons plus a paleo controversy. Maximum speed of sauropod tails, ankylosaurs clubbing each other, a paper on the Tanis site may include fake data, a new ornithopod, and how AI is being used in paleontology
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Dinosaur of the day Abrosaurus, a sauropod from China whose species name was originally "giant nose."
In dinosaur news this week:
- One of the papers about the Tanis site has been accused of having fake data
- There’s a new dwarf rhabdodontid dinosaur, Transylvanosaurus platycephalus
- Ankylosaurs probably evolved their tails for fighting each other, not for defending against predators
- Diplodocid tails could not break the speed of sound, according to a new model
- Artificial Intelligence helped solve the mystery of dinosaur tracks in Queensland, Australia
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| 0:41.5 | Hello and welcome to Iino-Dino. I'm Garrett. |
| 0:43.7 | And I'm Sabrina. And happy new year. |
| 0:45.1 | Yes, happy new year. |
| 0:49.4 | We're starting off the year with episode 423. |
| 0:56.1 | And in it, we have a bunch of news, including tail weaponry on ankylosaurs and sauropods. |
| 0:56.6 | Yes. |
| 1:04.0 | We also have a new ornithopod and how AI helps us with paleontology that Sabrina's going to tell me all about. |
| 1:07.4 | Those are both Sabrina stories, so I'm excited to hear about those. |
| 1:10.5 | Actually, so is the sauropod tail weaponry. |
| 1:13.6 | And you probably guess who's doing the Ankyla soaredail weaponry. |
| 1:19.9 | We also have Dinosaur of the Day, Abrosaurus. |
| 1:22.1 | And of course, I have a fun fact. |
| 1:25.5 | But before we get into all of that, we want to thank some of our patrons. |
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