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I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

Parasaurolophus - Episode 33

I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

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Iknowdino, Science, Dinosaurs, Dinosaur Podcast, Earth Sciences, Dinosaur, Natural Sciences, Education

4.7653 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Dinosaur news, including updates on the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry dinosaur murder mystery, Cooper the Titanosaur and his new home in Australia, new feathered dinosaur species from China Huanansaurus ganzhouensis, and more. Also, dinosaur of the day Parasaurolophus, a hadrosaurid with a crest, also known as Ducky from Land Before Time.

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Music now.

0:32.6

Hello and welcome to I know Dino. I'm Cairnob.

0:34.6

And today we'll be talking about parasarolophis as well as some dinosaur news.

0:38.9

First of the news, there's a new ovaraptorid dinosaur discovered, and it was published in

0:46.3

scientific reports on nature.com.

0:48.6

The title of the paper is A New Over Raptorid Dinosaur, parentheses Dinosauria ovaraptor osoria, from the late Cretaceous of

0:58.4

South China, and as paleobiogographical implications.

1:03.2

It was published by Junchang Liu and others.

1:06.6

So it's yet another overraptorid dinosaur that was discovered in the Ganjiao area of China.

1:12.9

This one's called Huan Anasaurus, Ganjou Anasis.

1:17.7

So Huanan means southern China, and Ganjou is the nearby city that it's named after.

1:23.4

It was discovered during construction of a railway station, and those are kind of two things I'm

1:29.1

starting to think about when I think of China's dinosaurs and trains everywhere.

1:33.0

It's believed to be from the late Cretaceous and about 72 million years ago, and it's characterized

1:39.3

by a bony crest on the top to the back of its head. So it really looks a lot like

1:44.7

Ovaraptor, but it has a smaller crest. There are also quite a few other differences in the skull

1:49.9

when you compare it to other Ovaraptorids, but most of them aren't that obvious, at least to me,

1:55.2

unless I'm really scrutinizing the skull, so I'm not going to go into all the details of it,

1:59.6

but we'll post a link to the

2:01.1

article if you really want to see all the scientific post-orbital differences and all these

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