PalaeoPoems with Brigid & Mike
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
I KNOW DINO, LLC
4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Eucamerotus, links from Brigid and Mike, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Eucamerotus-Episode-420/
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Dinosaur of the day Eucamerotus, the "well-chambered" sauropod from the Early Cretaceous in what is now the Isle of Wight, England.
Interview with Brigid and Mike, Brigid Christison has a Master's in Biology and is the founder and manager of PalaeoPoems. Mike Thompson is working on a PhD in Paleontology & Sedimentology at the University of Manitoba and writes the science behind the PalaeoPoems. Check them out at www.palaeopoems.com
In dinosaur news this week:
- “Spinosaurus is not an aquatic dinosaur” according to a new analysis of its buoyancy and body shape
- A T. rex skeleton, nicknamed Shen, was supposed to go on sale but instead will be on display at a museum (for now)
- The Natural History Museum in London is getting a Patagotitan
- Our last coverage of SVP 2022 including pachycephalosaurs, Big Al pathologies, bird hearts, and more
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| 0:40.9 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. |
| 0:41.6 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:42.3 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:52.7 | And today in our 420th episode, we have an interview with Bridget Christensen and Mike Thompson, all about paleo poems. |
| 0:53.8 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:58.2 | Really cool project. Yeah, the not just poems about paleontology. |
| 1:02.9 | They're basically poems from people that know a lot about paleontology, sort of talking about their own work or work that they're very familiar with. So it's really cool. And they go back a |
| 1:07.1 | very long time, surprisingly log. Yes. And we have Dinosaur of the Day, Eukhmeritus. Yes. And the last of our |
| 1:15.5 | SVP news, including an item about Big Al, which we prematurely talked about. Oh yeah. Yeah. You may have |
| 1:23.3 | noticed last week that the title of last week's episode briefly had Big Al pathologies in it |
| 1:29.2 | before we quickly removed it and replaced it with something else. Yes, we didn't mean to talk |
| 1:34.7 | about Big Al in the last episode, but instead we'll be doing it this episode. Yep. And I have a |
| 1:40.2 | update on Spinosaurus and what people think about it swimming. |
| 1:46.5 | And of course, a fun fact. |
| 1:51.4 | But before we get into all of that, we want to thank some of our patrons for helping to keep the podcast running. |
| 1:53.8 | We have three new patrons to thank this week. |
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