Elaphrosaurus - Episode 55
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2015
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Dinosaur news, including a new ceratopsian, possibly a leptoceratosid, dinosaur prints in Zimbabwe, new research on how bird embryos show the evolution of dinosaur ankles, and more. Also, dinosaur of the day Elaphrosaurus, a small theropod whose name means “light weight lizard.”
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| 0:17.0 | Music now. |
| 0:33.6 | Hello and welcome to I know Dino. I'm Gareth. |
| 0:34.4 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:38.7 | And today we'll be talking about theaprosaurus as well as a bunch of dinosaur names. So first in the news is an article published in Nature Commons titled |
| 0:45.2 | Bird Embryos Uncover Homology and Evolution of the Dinosaur Ankle. And it was written by |
| 0:51.2 | Luis Asafwententes and some others. |
| 0:55.0 | And just to interject, this one sent Garrett down a long rabbit hole. |
| 0:59.3 | It took about half a day probably. |
| 1:01.2 | Found out all kinds of things. |
| 1:03.7 | Yes. |
| 1:05.0 | So I'm going to share a lot of that rabbit hole, but in a very brief summary compared to how much information |
| 1:12.9 | I shared with Sabrina. |
| 1:14.3 | Particularly, Sir Richard Owen, which we all know is the guy who coined the term Dinosauria |
| 1:20.2 | and had some other early contributions to dinosaur paleontology. |
| 1:24.7 | He described many mammalian fossils and was inspired to do so partially by |
| 1:30.4 | the work of Charles Darwin in South America. He believed in evolution, but he thought that it was |
| 1:36.1 | more complex than Darwin did, but Darwin may have learned that large rodents evolved to small rodents |
| 1:42.5 | in South America from conversations between Darwin and Sir Richard Owens. |
| 1:47.4 | Supposedly, Darwin was on a train of thought where he thought small things evolved into small things and big things evolved into big things. |
| 1:54.0 | But then Sir Richard Owen gave an example of these really big rodents like this huge armadillo that was in South America that looked like |
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