Lice eating dinosaur feathers
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
I KNOW DINO, LLC
4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Altirhinus, links from Mel Murray, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Altirhinus-Episode-265/
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Dinosaur of the day Altirhinus, an Iguanodontian with both a beak and teeth for chewing.
Interview with Mel Murray, Science Communicator and Digital Content Producer at the Australian Museum in Sydney. She made the corresponding app for the Tyrannosaurs: Meet the Family exhibition. And she's working to digitize fossils for public use. Follow the museum on Facebook, Twitter, and check out the video of our visit.
In dinosaur news this week:
- A new Middle Jurassic ornithischian, Sanxiasaurus, was found near the Three Gorges Dam in China
- Two new pieces of 100 million-year-old amber were found with lice feeding on dinosaur feathers
- Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History’s Great Hall will be closing on Dec 31 for its renovations
- Mary Anning may finally get her statue in Lyme Regis after another 15,000 pounds were donated to the town
- A team from UC Berkeley created a digital T. rex that is able to kick a soccer ball
- Monroeville Convention Center in Pennsylvania will have a Dinosaur Adventure exhibit
- Colin Trevorrow recently posted a video on Twitter of a dinosaur robot from Jurassic World 3
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| 0:31.6 | Music Hello and welcome to I know Dino. I'm Garrett. |
| 0:48.1 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:49.1 | This week in our 265th episode, we have a bunch of news, including a new dinosaur from China and also some |
| 0:56.9 | dinosaur lice that were found in amber. It's kind of gross. And so other news from around |
| 1:04.1 | dinosaur media. And we have an interview with Mel Murray from the Australian Museum in Sydney. |
| 1:10.2 | And of course, we have a dinosaur of the day, and this week it's Altarinaus. |
| 1:14.5 | But before we get into all of that, we'd like to thank some of our patrons. |
| 1:17.9 | And this week, we'd like to thank Chris, Nicholas, Trent Carbohal, Stefan, Teia, Stegosophy, Ayumi, |
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| 1:55.7 | growing community, then check out our page, patreon.com slash I know dino. And with that, we're going to jump into our news. |
| 2:02.9 | Our first story is the new dinosaur. |
| 2:05.5 | The paper was written by Ning Li and others and published in historical biology. |
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