Rapator - Episode 91
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
I KNOW DINO, LLC
4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2016
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Interview with Dr. Ellinor Michel, who currently does research at the Natural History Museum, London, Department of Life Sciences, and chair of the Trustees and Management Board for Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs.
In addition to their website You can also find the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs on Facebook or Twitter. Or you can watch several films about them like The Lost Valley of London, The Seven Deadly Agents of Destruction, or check out the Emerald Ant who built a travelling version of their most iconic sculpture.
A discussion of Antrodemus vs Allosaurus, a couple of damaged dinosaur sculptures with a tough road ahead, and a family discovers an Iguanodon skull on the Isle of Wight. Also dinosaur of the day Rapator, a megaraptoran similar to Australovenator.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by K-12-powered schools, tuition-free online accredited public schools for kindergarten through 12th grade. |
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| 0:19.3 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino, the Big Dinosaur podcast, where we cover news, interviews, |
| 0:27.0 | and discussions of all things Dinosaur. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:33.7 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:34.8 | This week, our Dinosaur of the day is Rappator. |
| 0:39.2 | We have an interview with Dr. Eleanor Michelle from Friends of Crystal Palace dinosaurs. And we have a bunch of news. |
| 0:46.1 | But first, we want to give a shout out to our patrons on Patreon. Thank you so much for all your |
| 0:51.2 | support. And for those of you listening, if you enjoy this podcast and |
| 0:56.2 | want to help us keep this going, then please check at our page at patreon.com slash I know dino. |
| 1:01.6 | Before we get into our news, we have an email from David says, hi, I was listening to your podcast |
| 1:09.4 | on Allosaurus and you mentioned that the dinosaur |
| 1:11.9 | was called Antrodemus until the mid-1970s. I recently read the same in another source. If this is |
| 1:19.3 | true, why did children's books about dinosaurs call the animal Allosaurus consistently? It's true |
| 1:24.7 | for films as well, and he gives a couple of examples. Even if the |
| 1:28.1 | continued use of Antrodemus was only in scholarly and scientific books and journals, it seems |
| 1:33.4 | unlikely that popular culture would adapt Allosaurus as the standard when it was supposedly |
| 1:39.1 | never called that until the 70s. I don't think this is reversed Brontosaurus-slash-apotosaurus debate, is it? |
| 1:47.3 | Just curious and thought I would pass on these examples to you. So I did a whole bunch of digging on this, |
| 1:54.4 | and it is pretty complicated. So it is true that it was called Antrodemus first and that it was basically known as Antrodemus until the 1970s, but it's a little more complicated than that. |
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