Riley Black Returns and a new Dino Duels Championship
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
I KNOW DINO, LLC
4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Riley, one of our favorite dinosaur writers, returns to discuss her latest book and lots of other dinosaur topics. Plus a new ceratopsian—Ferenceratops. And a new Dino Duels Championship.
For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Quaesitosaurus, links from Riley Black, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Quaesitosaurus-Episode-560/
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Dinosaur of the day Quaesitosaurus, a titanosaur with a skull similar to Diplodocus.
Interview with Riley Black, an award-winning science writer whose work has appeared in National Geographic, Scientific American, Nature, Smithsonian, and more. She has written a number of books, including “The Last Days of the Dinosaurs,” “When the Earth was Green,” and most recently “The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs”. Follow her on Bluesky @restingdinoface
In dinosaur news this week:
- There’s a new ceratopsian dinosaur, Ferenceratops shqiperorum
- Dinosaurs were “ecosystem engineers” that shaped their landscapes while they were alive—and after they died out
- A study of New Mexican dinosaurs supports that they were still thriving before the Cretaceous-ending asteroid hit the Earth
- Our dino duels are going again! Create your bracket here: bit.ly/dinoduelsbracket
- Then enter your picks for a chance to win a year of Triceratops-level patreon membership at bit.ly/dinoduelspicks
- Complete rules and restrictions at bit.ly/dinoduelsrules
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by the Colorado Northwestern Community College. |
| 0:04.7 | Join them for two weeks digging up fossils like dinosaur bones in northwest Colorado this summer. |
| 0:10.3 | For details, go to cncc.edu slash paleo 26. |
| 0:24.2 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. |
| 0:27.1 | Keep up with the latest dinosaur discoveries and science with us. |
| 0:27.9 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:28.7 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:34.9 | And today in our 560th episode, we've got our Dino Dueles. |
| 0:35.8 | We sure do. |
| 0:40.1 | But before that, we've got some news, a new serotopsian dinosaur from the Hatsug Basin. |
| 0:41.2 | Plus, we'll be talking about how dinosaurs are going extinct, had a big effect on landscapes, |
| 0:45.9 | and more fuel to the debate that dinosaurs were thriving before the asteroid hit, |
| 0:50.2 | meaning they were not in decline. |
| 0:52.3 | We also have an interview with Riley Black about her book, |
| 0:55.2 | The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs, and Our Dinosaur of the Day, Quasi Tosaurus, a |
| 1:01.5 | titanosaur with a skull similar to Diplodocus. And we have a fun fact, which is that night |
| 1:07.1 | lizards survived the KPG mass extinction that killed all the non-avian dinosaurs, |
| 1:12.2 | even though they didn't have too many offspring at a time, and they had a limited area where they |
| 1:16.7 | lived. |
| 1:17.4 | Night lizards? |
| 1:19.1 | Night lizards. |
| 1:20.3 | Okay. |
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