Spinosaurus had a swimmer's tail
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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🗓️ 6 May 2020
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Dinosaur of the day Astrodon, an early cretaceous sauropod named for a star shape found after cutting open its tooth.
In dinosaur news this week:
- A nearly complete Spinosaurus tail shows It would have been a capable swimmer
- The researchers also released a 3D model of their Spinosaurus reconstruction
- The North Carolina bill to make Hypsibema the state dinosaur has been put on hold until 2021
- A charity sweepstakes and auction winner will get eaten by dinosaurs in Jurassic World: Dominion
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| 0:40.8 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. I'm Garrett. |
| 0:41.5 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:50.6 | And today in our 284th episode, we have a bunch of news, including new evidence that Spinosaurus spent a lot of time in the water. |
| 0:53.0 | There's been a lot of discussion around this already. |
| 0:55.6 | You've likely already seen some news about it. |
| 0:56.6 | It's pretty crazy. |
| 0:59.6 | And we have Dinosaur of the Day Astrodon. |
| 1:04.5 | But before that, as always, we want to thank some of our patrons who help us keep the podcast running. |
| 1:05.4 | And this week we'd like to thank Wyatt, the Georgia's family, John Heck, Ranger Chris from |
| 1:10.4 | Dino for Hire, Ray, Andrew and Helena Webb, Callum, Ricky, William, Red Sox, Wouter, Moss Utah Raptor, Verasa Raptor, Goji, Nealovinator, Aosie David, Ellen, and Christine. |
| 1:25.8 | Yeah, thank you so much to everybody who is part of our dinosaur community. |
| 1:30.4 | We really appreciate all of you. |
| 1:32.2 | And a lot of you have been watching movies with us, and we've been having a great time. |
| 1:37.6 | We've gone through all of the available Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies at this point. |
| 1:42.6 | So now we're moving on to land before time. |
| 1:45.1 | And we'll be picking out other movies, too. We're not going to go through all the land |
| 1:49.4 | before time movies, just the first one. Yeah. And then we haven't figured out what we're going to do |
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