Microraptor revisited and April Fowl's Day
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
I KNOW DINO, LLC
4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
We have so many Microraptor specimens we know the color of their feathers, how they molted, what they ate, and much more. Plus a new hypothesis for why the first wings may have evolved. On a lighter note we cover some famous pop-culture dinosaurs: Rodan, Godzillasaurus, Ultimasaurus, and Toronto's Raptor mascot.
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Dinosaur of the day Microraptor, a small 4 or 5 winged dinosaur that we first knew from just a tail, but now we even know what it ate.
In dinosaur news this week:
- Dinosaur feathers were a lot more like bird feathers than we thought
- Scientists have a new framework for figuring out if a dinosaur could fly
- A robotic Caudipteryx demonstrated how dinosaurs could have used their “half” wings to startle insects (and eat them)
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| 0:41.1 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. |
| 0:44.7 | Keep up with the latest dinosaur discoveries and science with us. |
| 0:45.7 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:46.5 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:52.3 | And today in our 488th episode, it's the April Fool's Day episode. |
| 0:55.2 | But we're still talking about dinosaurs. |
| 1:01.1 | Well, if you have been listening in the last few years, then you know it's more bird-like than usual. |
| 1:08.2 | We've got feathers and birds and bird-like non-avian dinosaurs and even some fictional characters that are going to make appearance. |
| 1:12.7 | And for the dinosaur of the day, you're doing Microraptor Revisited, which is very exciting. |
| 1:17.1 | Yes, plus a few more, I'm going to say cameos because of their characters. |
| 1:26.9 | Thank you to our patron Robert, who said, quote, if you stick with the bird theme, it's clearly your April foul episode, perhaps as bad as the Thesaurus jokes, I know. |
| 1:29.9 | I would argue perhaps as good as the Thesaurus jokes, I know. I would argue perhaps as good as the the Thesaurus jokes. April Fowles. That's silly. I think we're actually releasing this episode |
| 1:37.0 | close to April Fools. It's not exactly. It's hard to get it exactly. It was exactly one of these years. |
| 1:43.2 | I think that might be when we started doing it |
| 1:45.0 | as the April Fool's episode because we realized, wait a second, dinosaurs are birds. No one will |
| 1:51.8 | expect this. But before we get into this special episode, of course, we want to thank some of our |
| 1:58.3 | patrons. And this week, we have 10 patrons to, as usual. And they are Danny Hermis, Anne, L. Rex, Riker Tattoo, Jesse, Trent Carbohal, Thieving Raptor Lorenzo, Adelosaurus, Richard, and Kumakani. |
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