Rob Sula who co-discovered the Tanis site

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🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The Tanis site is one of the most important paleo sites in North America, showing details of the exact day when the Cretaceous ended. Plus two new cute dinosaurs.

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Dinosaur of the day Silvisaurus, an ankylosaur with a pear-shaped skull.

Interview with Rob Sula, the Senior field supervisor for Paleo Prospectors. He's a field paleontologist, teacher, and artist with decades of experience hunting and excavating dinosaurs and has co-discovered some very important fossil sites. He was also recently featured in the documentary Why Dinosaurs?

In dinosaur news this week:

Dr. Hans Sues has ascended to paleo legend status
There’s a new cute ornithopod, Foskeia pelendonum
There’s another new, possibly even cuter dinosaur, the thescelosaurid ornithischian Doolysaurus huhmini

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0:00.0	Before we get into this episode, a quick reminder that we have our annual survey going.
0:05.0	And if you want to tell us what you think about our show, any specific segments, what you like, what could be improved.
0:11.6	You can go to Iknowdino.com slash survey.
0:15.5	New and improved link without a bunch of bloat.
0:18.3	Yes.
0:19.2	We have a handful of responses now, which is great. Thank you. But we'd like to know more.
0:27.4	Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. Keep up with the latest dinosaur discoveries and science with us. I'm Garrett. And I'm Sabrina.
0:38.7	And today in our 564th episode, we're talking about two new small and cute dinosaurs.
0:45.5	Oh. Plus, we have an interview with Rob Sula who co-discovered the Tannis site in North Dakota,
0:51.9	which has direct evidence of the asteroid impact that killed the non-avian dinosaurs.
0:57.2	Yes. That's a really good interview. I enjoyed it a lot. And there is more meat to it in our
1:03.2	premium content feed if you're into that kind of thing. We also have Dinosaur of the Day,
1:09.2	Silvasaurus, which is an ankylosaur with a pear-shaped skull.
1:13.5	And our fun fact is that there is a reimagining short film of The Land Before Time called Littlefoot.
1:21.1	I'll have to watch that.
1:22.5	It's not out yet.
1:23.5	Oh.
1:26.4	Before we get into all of that, as always, we'd like to thank some of our patrons.
1:30.4	And this week we have two new patrons to thank.
1:32.2	And they are Tina and Devonian Kate.
1:35.5	I like Devonian Kate.
1:37.0	At first I was like, is that in fact a stage in the Devonian period?
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