Sauropod Shindig
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
Five new sauropods from all across the world and the sauropod family tree. Plus new embryos and hatchlings, sauropod speed estimates, and much much more.
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Dinosaur of the day Cetiosauriscus, a sauropod that isn't Cetiosaurus, but was also from Middle Jurassic of England.
In dinosaur news this week:
- Sauropod experts wrote an introduction to Diplodocoidea
- There’s a new titanosaur sauropod, Utetitan zellaguymondeweyae
- A new Alamosaurus fossil was found
- There’s a new dicraeosaurid sauropod, Athenar bermani
- There’s a new titanosaur sauropod, Yeneen houssayi
- There’s a new eusauropod sauropod, Jinchuanloong niedu
- There’s a new species of the sauropod Mamenchisaurus, Mamenchisaurus sanjiangensis
- Some sauropods chose to lay eggs surrounded by fast moving waters, possibly to protect them from predators
- New Massospondylus embryos and hatchling show how they started on all fours before growing up and walking on two legs
- Large sauropods may have had max speeds of 6 mph (10 km/h)
- A nearly complete Plateosaurus tail shows this sauropodomorph could do damage with its tail
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by the Colorado Northwestern Community College. Join them for two |
| 0:05.4 | weeks digging up fossils like dinosaur bones in northwest Colorado this summer. For details, go to cnCC.edu |
| 0:12.9 | slash paleo 26. Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. |
| 0:24.6 | Keep up with the latest dinosaur discoveries and science with us. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:28.1 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:28.9 | And today in our 559th episode, it's a Saurapod Shindig. |
| 0:34.1 | We're doing Shindig again? |
| 0:36.1 | Well, this was a request from Wiser, Sorpot Shindig, and then Morgan, these are our Dino-at-A-A-Dol's, said it was very fitting since Sauropods are often discovered from long bones, so to find them, you have to dig up shins. |
| 0:52.0 | A shin dig, I get it. |
| 0:54.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.2 | So we're talking all about the group, sore pods, plus there's five new sorapods. |
| 1:01.7 | There's new sauropod nesting sites and embryos, sorapod speeds, and sauropodomorph tail weapons, and more. |
| 1:08.9 | I guess a shin dig sounds better than a tibia dig. |
| 1:12.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.7 | Rolls off the tongue better. |
| 1:15.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.6 | We also have Dinosaur of the day, Cediosauris, a sauropod with a long history. |
| 1:21.2 | Not to be confused with Cediosaurus. |
| 1:23.7 | That's what I was going to say. |
| 1:25.2 | Don't worry. |
| 1:25.8 | They're intertwined, kind of. |
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