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UK slash Wondery. Hello and welcome to I Know Dino.

I'm Garrett.

And I'm Sabrina.

And today we'll be talking about brachiosaurus as well as some dinosaur news.

First in the news is an article published in Nature Scientific Reports

titled A New Basal Thorapod from the pre-Torcian Jurassic of South Africa, evidence of

niche partitioning at the sauropodomorph sorapod boundary. It was written by Blair W. McPhee and others. So in the paper, they

describe a new dinosaur that they found in the Upper Elliott Formation in Eastern South Africa,

which is near Lesotho, if you're up on your Africa geography. It's that little country

that's completely surrounded by South Africa, and I think it's the only one in the world.

The dinosaur is called Palanosaurus Eocallum, and Palane in Sissotho means Rainmaker or Bringer, and Eoc column means dawn column, which in Greek is a reference to the hypothesized function of its neck.

So the rainbringer and maker doesn't really make a lot of sense until you find out a bit about the late Naud Bremer,

who was the former owner of the heelbow farm where the fossil was discovered, and he was also a strong

proponent of paleontology taking place on his farm. So it turns out that Palaine was the childhood

sesotho nickname of Bremer's daughter, Panny. So that's where the name comes from. As far as the

dawn column part of the name goes, they believe that this is an early example

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