How dinosaurs, fungi, and plants evolved together

I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Dinosaurs had a complex relationship with fungi and plants. We explore whether dinosaurs ate psychedelics, if they aided plant evolution, and even a carnivorous fungus.

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Dinosaur of the day Jeholornis, the first known bird to eat fruit.

Some of the main topics in this episode:

The psychotropic fungus ergot in the Cretaceous
Fungi in dinosaurian (Isisaurus) coprolites
Dinosaurs feeding on flowering plants
Dinosaur—angiosperm coevolution revisited
"Hunting the Snark: the flawed search for mythical Jurassic angiosperms"
Angiosperm evolution using phylogenomics
Possible pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants
Ancient pollen that may be from angiosperms
How the end-Cretaceous extinction led to modern rainforests
How plants fared after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

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0:41.0	Hello and welcome to I Know Dino.
0:44.5	Keep up with the latest dinosaur discoveries and science with us.
0:45.3	I'm Garrett.
0:46.4	And I'm Sabrina.
0:56.1	And today in our 528th episode, we're talking about plants and fungi and how dinosaurs interacted with them.
1:01.2	I know some people say fungi and we're going with fungi because I'm a fun guy.
1:04.2	I was just going to make a joke like that.
1:08.2	It's like the most common fungus joke, but it's a good one.
1:10.0	Fungus slash dad joke. Yeah.
1:18.5	We also have Dinosaur of the Day, Jehornis, which was a fruit-eating dinosaur, bird, but, you know, dinosaur.
1:19.6	Fits with the theme.
1:20.3	It does.
1:23.4	And we have two fun facts for this episode. The first is that there are giant sinkholes with ancient forests.
1:29.0	And the second is there are carnivorous fungi.
1:33.2	Really?
1:34.0	Yeah.
1:34.6	I knew there were carnivorous plants, but I didn't know about carnivorous fungi.
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