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Hello and welcome to I know Dino.

This is episode 26 and I'm Garrett.

And I'm Sabrina.

And today we'll be talking about Gallimimus bulletus, as well as a bunch of dinosaur news.

First in the news, there's an exciting dinosaur discovery in Washington state in the U.S.

It's not a new dinosaur that makes it exciting.

It's exciting because it's the first dinosaur that's ever been found in the state of Washington. And some scientists are saying that it might be the last U.S.

state to have a dinosaur ever discovered in it. That's because a lot of the states were underwater

during the time of dinosaurs. One other state, Hawaii, wasn't even formed

for another 60 million years or so, and most of the northeast was scraped up by glaciers, which

removed a lot of the dinosaur-era material. Washington might be the last state. It's a very interesting looking little bone fragment.

It's only about a third of a femur, but even though it's only a third of a femur, it's

more than a foot long and over a half a foot wide.

It's kind of a triangular piece.

So when the Burke Museum got this fossil, it sat in the queue for a little while

because it didn't look like anything particularly interesting and possibly not anything that they could even

identify. It was still partly attached to a rock at that point, as bones often are when they're transported to

museums. And that turned out to be the reason why they

couldn't tell at all what it was. When they looked closely at it and they removed that rock and

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