Mussaurus - Episode 220
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
I KNOW DINO, LLC
4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Dinosaur of the day Mussaurus, the "mouse lizard" sauropodomorph from Argentina.
In dinosaur news this week:
- A new Amargasaurus relative, Bajadasaurus, was described with some amazing neck spines
- A dinosaur foot including feathers and scutes was found preserved in amber
- The original feather that defined Archaeopteryx may not belong to Archaeopteryx as it's now defined
- A new dinosaur fossil went on display in Japan and may be the county's oldest dinosaur fossil
- An event called Teach Rex in Liverpool in the UK
- The new owner of a Flintstones theme park in Arizona plans to partially repurpose it for birding
- A new website is digitizing bird skeletons, so far mostly from New Zealand
- Both Dippy the Diplodocus and Trix the T. rex will soon be on display together in Glasgow, Scotland
- There’s a new play in the UK about Gideon Mantell, called Dinomania
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| 0:31.6 | Music Hello and welcome to I know Dino. |
| 0:47.5 | I'm Karak. |
| 0:48.2 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:49.7 | This week in our 220th episode, we have a bunch of dinosaur news, including a new sauropod dinosaur, another dinosaur that was |
| 1:00.5 | found in amber, an update on the original Archaeopteryx find, some dinosaur shows, and we also |
| 1:07.9 | have Dinosaur of the Day, Moosaurus. |
| 1:13.7 | What a week. It's exciting. Action-packed. |
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