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Hello and welcome to I know Dino.

I'm Garrett.

And I'm Sabrina.

And today we'll be talking about Kulinda Dromius, Zbikilichus, and some dinosaur news. So in the news, Nathan Mervold, an inventor and Microsoft former CEO, believes that dinosaurs

might help us fight malnutrition.

And there's a video that's been posted around the internet.

And he talks about how in researching dinosaurs and going on digs and really becoming very interested in dinosaurs,

he tried to model their growth patterns.

So he would look at, for instance, T-Rex, where there are roughly

30 specimens that he had access to their size and information about them. And you would try to

model based on the ages that they were supposed to be what their growth pattern looked like.

And while he was doing it, he actually corrected a few of the scientific papers

that showed growth rates that didn't really match the fossil record.

But another interesting thing he discovered, after having a discussion with Bill Gates,

is that it could be used to simulate the growth of a child

as well as a dinosaur. So what he did is he decided that he could use the same type of model where you

monitor dinosaurs or look at a few points of dinosaur age and size and extrapolate and

interpolate their growth pattern and do the same thing with kids in developing countries.

And this way you can compare things like how much food they're getting versus what kind of growth they have, which is a really good way to show how much food they're getting versus what kind of growth they have, which is a really good way

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