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I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

Dinosaur Brains

I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

I KNOW DINO, LLC

Iknowdino, Science, Dinosaurs, Dinosaur Podcast, Earth Sciences, Dinosaur, Natural Sciences, Education

4.7653 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Aerosteon, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Aerosteon-Episode-352/

Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.

Dinosaur of the day Aerosteon, a Late Cretaceous megaraptoran named for its pneumatic bones.

In dinosaur news this week:

  • Two Daspletosaurus braincases have many differences, possibly indicating a new species
  • Two new sauropods, Hamititan & Silutitan, were named among pterosaur fossils in China
  • A key difference in brain shapes may explain why birds survived the K-Pg boundary, but non-avian dinosaurs went extinct
  • Students from the University of Alberta are looking for someone with a boat to help with excavating a hadrosaur
  • If you live in Victoria, Australia, you can vote for a state fossil emblem
  • Tokyo Dome in Japan has a Dinosaur Exhibition until September 5th

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0:00.0

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0:41.5

Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. I'm Garrett.

0:42.3

And I'm Sabrina.

0:56.1

And today in our 352nd episode, we have a bunch of news, including some stories about dinosaur brains, two new sauropods, and a bunch of other stories.

1:04.7

We also have Dinosaur of the Day, AeroSteyon, and a fun fact about how strong Tyrannosaurid jaws were at different ages. So how they changed as they grew up. But before we get into all of that,

1:10.4

we want to thank some of our patrons.

1:12.3

And this week we have two new patrons to thank.

1:14.6

And they are misunderstood Overaptor, which is good because Overaptors are frequently misunderstood.

1:21.8

Like we were just talking about, even in the most recent Jurassic World trailer.

1:25.8

And our other new patron is Sezisaurus.

1:29.2

So thank you both very much for joining this wonderful community.

1:34.3

And I believe Sezisaurus was officially the 200th patron.

1:38.5

Nice.

1:39.4

We're official.

1:40.4

Yep.

1:41.0

We're officially doing that YouTube Q&A that we totally know when is going to happen.

1:46.3

Soon.

1:47.5

Very soon. Or soon. I don't know if I want to say very soon.

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