Are Silesaurs Dinosaurs?
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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🗓️ 7 August 2025
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Silesaurs are definitely dinosauromorphs (close relatives of dinosaurs) but were they true dinosaurs?
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Dinosaur of the day Planicoxa, an iguanodont known from its flat hips with a species name that means "poison".
In dinosaur news this week:
- There’s a new silesaurid, Itaguyra occulta, whose name means "Stone Bird" in Tupi—a language from Southern Brazil where it was found
- A new large femur found in Zambia may have been from a 10ft (3m) long silesaur—quite large for the
- Probable silesaur arm and leg bones from the Late Triassic were described from what is now Texas
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| 0:36.9 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. |
| 0:41.5 | Keep up with the latest dinosaur discoveries and science with us. |
| 0:44.6 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:45.3 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:46.3 | And today in our 545th episode, we're talking all about silasores. |
| 0:53.0 | I proposed the title, I know silasors. And I said, what about |
| 0:58.7 | our silasors dinosaurs? And I said, that's a better title. And it almost rhymes. It does. |
| 1:06.4 | Or maybe it does rhyme. Sores, sores. Maybe not. That's an almost rhyme. |
| 1:11.9 | I mean, it's a rhyme, but it's a rhyme because they have the same suffix. |
| 1:15.8 | So it's a little cheaty. |
| 1:18.4 | Well, yes, we'll be looking at our silasors dinosaurs. |
| 1:23.6 | And we also have several new silasors, including one whose name means Stonebird. |
| 1:29.0 | Mm-hmm. I wonder if they think a siloesore is a dinosaur, since birds are dinosaurs. |
| 1:34.3 | Well, you'll find out. |
| 1:36.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:36.8 | The answer, though, to your question is it's complicated. |
| 1:40.0 | Yeah. |
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