Extinction Extravaganza
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Brachytrachelopan, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Brachytrachelopan-Episode-412/
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Dinosaur of the day Brachytrachelopan, a dicraeosaurid sauropod from the Late Jurassic that had an extremely short neck (for a sauropod).
In dinosaur news this week:
- A new abelisaurid from Patagonia, Elemgasem, was small but named after a mighty Tehuelche god
- Scientists suggested volcanic eruptions could be the main reason for mass extinctions
- Scientists suggested dinosaurs were on the decline before they went extinct
- The moon includes evidence of asteroid impacts on Earth
- There is a second underwater crater that is from around the same time as Chicxulub
- A new model shows the tsunami after the Chicxulub impact
- The Chicxulub impact may have triggered an earthquake that lasted weeks to months
- Precipitation played a role in the abundance and success of hadrosaurs and ceratopsians in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Alaska
- Dinosaurs may have been successful and diverse because of the differences in their diets
- 80 million year old dinosaur eggs were recently found in Jiangxi Province, China
- In Skåne, Sweden, large carnivorous dinosaurs from the Late Triassic were recently found
- Reykjavík might be getting a Triceratops skeleton to display
- To celebrate National Fossil Day, Mississippi State University’s Dunn-Seiler Museum had a competition to name their Triceratops
- A man in New Zealand used VR to sculpt and then 3D print a life-sized model of a Tyrannosaurus
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| 0:41.8 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. I'm Garrett. |
| 0:42.5 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:51.9 | And today in our 412th episode, we have a bunch of news, which I'm calling the extinction extravaganza. |
| 0:54.2 | That makes extinction sound fun. |
| 1:00.0 | Well, you just told me that you've got a whole bunch of stories about the extinction event. |
| 1:00.6 | Yes. |
| 1:02.3 | For various extinctions, I guess. |
| 1:05.8 | It's mostly around the non-aladian dinosaur extinctions. |
| 1:06.1 | Okay. |
| 1:07.5 | Different facets of it. And I've got a new abelisorid from Argentina, which also involves extinction events, |
| 1:14.0 | although not the N. Cretaceous one. We have some happier news, too. That's good. We also have |
| 1:21.5 | Dinosaur of the Day, Brachy Trakolopan. But before we get into all of that, real quick, we want to thank some of our patrons. |
| 1:28.8 | And this week we have one new patron to thank. And that is Larissa. Thank you very much for |
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| 1:42.4 | Sam Mensosaurus, Jeff, J.C. and Kentrosaurus. |
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| 1:54.0 | community, like this new segment that doesn't have a name yet where we connect dinosaurs to anything. |
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