Diplodocus - Episode 3
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2015
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In the summer of 2017, Dippy the Dinosaur is being removed from London's Natural History Museum. We discuss what prompted the decision, how you can campaign against the decision, as well as give details on the Diplodocus, a dinosaur known for its length and whip-like tail.
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| 0:33.1 | Hello and welcome to I know Dino. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:35.6 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:38.8 | And today we're going to talk about something a little different we got a post on our Twitter from a tweet yeah one might say so we got a tip from a reporter |
| 0:51.3 | Joshua from the London evening standard that 2017, the iconic diplodicist that greets visitors at the London Natural History Museum will be gone and replaced by a blue whale. |
| 1:06.9 | Specifically, a blue whale skeleton. And I think the most ridiculous thing about this is the fact that |
| 1:14.5 | they're replacing the skeleton of a dinosaur technically the cast of a skeleton of a dinosaur |
| 1:19.9 | with a skeleton of a whale and I always feel that it makes a lot of sense to have a skeleton of a dinosaur on display |
| 1:28.4 | because we don't know exactly what they looked like. |
| 1:31.0 | There are a lot of guesses you can make based on marks in the bone. |
| 1:35.4 | You can see where muscle attached and things like that. |
| 1:37.4 | So you can guess how big they'd be. |
| 1:39.3 | You can guess from skin impressions what their skin might have been like. |
| 1:43.0 | But things like feathers or color of the skin |
| 1:47.6 | or exact shapes and sizes of soft tissue, |
| 1:51.4 | you can never really tell for sure. |
| 1:53.2 | So mounting a skeleton is really the best scientific way |
| 1:56.1 | to display what we know about the creature. |
| 1:58.6 | But with a blue whale, |
| 2:02.6 | everybody knows what they look like. You can go out into the ocean. |
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