How Tyrannosaurus grew into a bone crusher
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
I KNOW DINO, LLC
4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Dinosaur of the day Opisthocoelicaudia, a late cretaceous titanosaur that may have been able to rear up on its hind legs.
In dinosaur news this week:
- A new analysis of dozens of tyrannosaur specimens splits its growth into 5 major phases
- The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit at just the right angle to do the most possible damage
- The dueling dinosaurs appear to be going exclusively to the surface rights owners
- A set of chinese "chicken claw prints" turned out to be Jurassic dinosaur tracks
- Japanese researchers claim to have found the world's smallest dinosaur egg fossil
- The NHM in London shared details about Qhemegha, South Africa and its importance in dinosaur paleontology
- The TV show Dinosaurs is coming to Disney+ this fall
- Dinosaur Batman uses the name B. rex for one character, it's not a shoebill or the T. rex specimen MOR 1125 that go by the same name
- Filming for Jurassic World Dominion has resumed
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| 0:41.2 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. |
| 0:41.8 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:42.5 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:57.6 | This week in our 291st episode, we have a bunch of news, including a super long, in-depth analysis of Tyrannosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, to be specific, and how it changed as it aged, |
| 1:05.3 | as well as some Jurassic World Dominion and other dinosaur media news and lots of other good stuff. |
| 1:12.8 | We also have Dinosaur of the Day, Episthosilacadia, one of the most syllables I've seen in a dinosaur name. |
| 1:17.1 | Thank you, Thomas Holtz, for the pronunciation. |
| 1:20.4 | Yeah, I think it might have been in the original paper, too, on that one. |
| 1:21.9 | Oh, even better. |
| 1:25.6 | But before we get into all of that, we want to thank some of our patrons. |
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| 1:36.0 | Albertosaurus, Trev, Ayrton and Everett, Greg, Jared Copeland, Leah, Bill Jago, Argentrinosaurus, and J.C. And J.C. just joined. So thank you very much. |
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| 2:07.7 | Jumping into the news, our first article is by Thomas Carr, published in PureJ, and it's the new |
| 2:14.1 | study on how T-Rex grew up. |
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