Clearing Oviraptor's name
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Dinosaur of the day Nqwebasaurus, an herbivorous coelurosaur from the Early Cretaceous in what is now South Africa.
In dinosaur news this week:
- A new oviraptorid embryo shows that Oviraptor was not the "egg thief" it was once thought to be
- A second specimen of Diamantinasaurus was described with a previously unknown braincase
- More work on a Sphaerotholus buchholtzae find helps to show it is a valid species
- Utahraptor State Park is officially approved after the governor signed the bill into law
- In Montville, Connecticut, The Dinosaur Place in Nature’s Art Village recently reopened with COVID-19 safety measures
- Dinorama: Miniatures Through the Mesozoic is at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History through April 25th
- Connecticut's Sky’s the Limit Hiking Challenge includes Dinosaur State Park this year
- In Washington state, a woman got stuck on top of a T. rex statue at Granger Dinosaur Park
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| 0:41.6 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. I'm Garrett. |
| 0:42.3 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:50.8 | And today in our 331st episode, we have a bunch of news, including what I am calling, clearing the name of Over Raptor. |
| 0:53.4 | Oh, I see. Because it's not an egg thief. |
| 0:56.6 | Exactly. |
| 0:57.6 | Which we've sort of known for a while, but there's a bunch more evidence to go into, which is fascinating. |
| 1:03.3 | That also spills over into the fun fact. |
| 1:05.7 | But it will always have the name that means egg thief. |
| 1:08.7 | It will, yeah. |
| 1:09.5 | That's an unfortunate relic of history. but also a good reminder that things change. |
| 1:15.7 | And just because something was named one thing doesn't mean that it has to be defined by that forever. |
| 1:20.9 | We also have Dinosaur of the Day Nquabosaurus. |
| 1:24.9 | Also pronounced Nwabosaurus. |
| 1:28.1 | Yeah, it's in a language that has clicks as a... Quabasaurus. Also pronounced N quabosaurus. Yeah. |
| 1:28.7 | It's in a language that has clicks as part of the consonant sounds, which is really |
| 1:33.9 | difficult for us, but we're doing our best. |
| 1:36.9 | Hopefully that sounded good. |
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