Argentinosaurus - Episode 97
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2016
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
A new ornithomimid dinosaur called Rativates evadens, Wrapper Raptors, updates on the 9 foot block of Utahraptors, the new Transformers movie Transformers: The Last Knight, will have more dino-robots, six roadside dinosaur attractions in southern California; and dinosaur of the day Argentinosaurus, a titanosaur from Argentina, and one of the largest known dinosaurs.
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| 0:32.8 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:34.2 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:37.4 | This week, we have a bunch of dinosaur news. |
| 0:40.4 | Our dinosaur of the day is Argentinosaurus. |
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| 1:03.3 | Jumping into the news, there's a new dinosaur that has been named based on a small ornitha mymid originally found back in 1934, the work was done by Bradley McFeeders and others, and it was published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. |
| 1:18.6 | The specimen they were looking at is called ROM 1790, and it's a partial skeleton of what had been referred to as Struthioomimus atlas for the last 80 plus years. |
| 1:31.7 | It made sense of the time because it's from dinosaur provincial park where many struthiomimus |
| 1:36.6 | have been found and it was in 76 million year old sediment which would have put it in the same |
| 1:42.4 | time period as struthia mimus as well. |
| 1:45.2 | But when they looked in more detail at the skeleton, they found differences in the skull, |
| 1:50.0 | vertebrae, pelvis, and feet. It's named Rada Vedes, Evidence, and Rata comes from ratite birds, |
| 1:59.1 | including ostriches, and Vades means foreteller. |
| 2:03.7 | So, according to the authors, it, quote, alludes to the paradox of an ostrich mimic that existed before ostriches, end quote. |
| 2:11.9 | And you might know that Ornithaimid means ostrich mimic. |
| 2:15.5 | So it's kind of funny that, you know, it's mimicking something that's |
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