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Hello and welcome to I Know Dino, the Big Dinosaur podcast, where we cover news, interviews, and

discussions of all things Dinosaur. Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. I'm Garrett. And I'm

Sabrina. And thank you to all our patrons for all your support.

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videos and all that good stuff there. Our dinosaur of the day this week is OVA Raptor, and we have

some dinosaur news. First in the news is a pretty fun article. It came from a Dino 101 update since we last took the class, and luckily

they published a little article on the University of Alberta website, so we got to see the clip.

Essentially, it's all about how dinosaurs ran and walked. So, archosaurs that have tails have a muscle

called the Catofemoralis that attaches their

femur to their tail. And then when they swing their tail, it actually pulls their leg up and helps

them walk and run. Now, the muscle attaches at several points, but the point where it attaches to

the femur is easy to identify because it has a large crest,

and if it's a big muscle, you need bigger crests and attachment points.

So paleontologists can use these different attachment points to determine just how big a muscle was.

And by using some of these characteristics, they determined that predators like T-Rex and other

tyranosaurs had a very big catofemoralis, even for their body size, because they were huge,

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