Mononykus - Episode 218

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🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Dinosaur of the day Mononykus, an Alvarezsaurid with tiny arms but big claws that lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Mongolia.

In dinosaur news this week:

Connecticut may have picked the wrong state dinosaur since Eubrontes tracks may have been made by a sauropodomorph instead of a predator
UV vision may have helped dinosaurs see their way through dense forests
There may have been an increase in asteroid impacts near the beginning of the Mesozoic
The lawsuit regarding Bears Ears monument status will be heard in Washington D.C.
Paris the Parasaurolophus sculpture has “laid an egg” (really grown a mushroom)
The Japanese manga series One Piece has a story arc with a group of dinosaur pirates
The mobile game Dino People lets you build a very simple dinosaur civilization

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0:48.5	In episode 218, we have a bunch of dinosaur news, including dinosaur footprints, dinosaur vision, dinosaur extinction, and dinosaur pirates.
1:01.0	We also have a review of dinosaurs are people two, the mobile game, and we have dinosaur the Day, Mononikis, which we usually say
1:13.3	mononikis. So that might be confusing, but we'll try to say mononikas, since apparently
1:20.4	that's what most people say. But before we get into all that, we want to thank some of our
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2:28.0	Jumping into the news, our first article that we're going to discuss is sort of challenging
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