Is Nanotyrannus back?
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Lots of tyrannosaur news: Nanotyrannus debate continues (was it its own dinosaur or was it actually T. rex?), plus a new debate about the evolution of another ferocious tyrannosaur, Daspletosaurus. And a fun fact about a baby T. rex you've probably never heard of.
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Dinosaur of the day Bistahieversor, a large, powerful, tyrannosaur that lived almost 10 million years before T. rex in what is now New Mexico.
In dinosaur news this week:
- A new paper considers Nanotyrannus to be a valid genus (separate from Tyrannosaurus)
- Daspletosaurus may not have evolved via anagenesis
- The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis has a new Allosaurus with skin impressions, belly ribs, and evidence of injuries
- Trinity the T. rex will be on display at the Aathal Dinosaur Museum in Zurich, Switzerland for most of 2024
- The Royal Mint has three new dinosaur coins
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| 0:41.0 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. |
| 0:41.8 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:42.8 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:49.8 | And today in our 478th episode, we have lots of Tyrannosaur news. |
| 0:50.7 | Everybody's favorite. |
| 0:52.6 | Maybe not everybody, but a lot of people's. We have nanoturanus, the debate |
| 0:55.7 | continuing, a new paper saying that it is in fact its own genus and not just a synonym of |
| 1:02.8 | T-Rex. We're going to get into all of the details about the response to the paper as well as what |
| 1:08.9 | the paper is saying about nanotaranus. |
| 1:11.6 | Plus, there's a new debate about the evolution of another ferocious Tyrannosaur, |
| 1:16.1 | Displetosaurus. And just quickly, if you heard the end of our episode from last week, we have a little |
| 1:22.2 | bit of a mix-up. We will get to the new dinosaurs in next week's episode, and it will be very fitting |
| 1:27.1 | because we're interviewing Carrie Woodruff, which is another hint as to the type of dinosaurs we'll be covering. |
| 1:32.2 | Oh, is it soar pods? |
| 1:33.8 | You got it. |
| 1:35.1 | Second try. |
| 1:38.5 | So more carnivores this week. |
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