Bonus: When It Rained for 2 Million Years on Earth
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
I KNOW DINO, LLC
4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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We have a special bonus episode from Well…That’s Interesting. Jill discusses the Carnian Pluvial Event that helped get dinosaurs on top of the food chain. And for our turtle fans, there’s a segment about a giant turtle that lived in the Mesozoic.
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| 0:32.6 | This week we have a special bonus episode for you. We're dropping an episode of, well, that's interesting |
| 0:38.0 | in our feed. Well, that's interesting. That's how I like to say it, is a weekly comedy sciencey |
| 0:44.2 | show for people who like learning about weird stuff. Like, can hair grow between your teeth? |
| 0:51.3 | That creeps me out every time I think about it. I'm not a fan. |
| 0:55.3 | Or could we lose our moon? |
| 0:58.8 | Sadly, the answer is yes to both. |
| 1:01.6 | But WTI tells the story behind the facts and turns out those stories are funny. |
| 1:07.4 | We were recently introduced to this podcast and it is so much fun. Jill leaves in so many |
| 1:13.4 | cool facts, and there's a wide variety of interesting topics, like why you can't remember |
| 1:18.4 | being born or how scientists saw a Jupiter-sized planet crash into a dying star. This particular |
| 1:24.6 | episode is all about the Carnian Pluvial event, CPE, sometimes called Carnian Pluvial |
| 1:29.4 | episode we've talked about before, which was a really, really long rain about two million years, |
| 1:34.8 | and it helped dinosaurs to get to the top of the food chain. Plus for our turtle fans, |
| 1:39.8 | there's a segment about a 13-foot-long turtle that lived in the late Cretaceous in the Mesozoic. |
| 1:46.3 | Makes me wonder if it had to grow really big so that it didn't get squashed by a sauropod. |
| 1:50.5 | I didn't have to worry about that. |
| 1:52.3 | Anyway, we highly recommend this show. |
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