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I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

Stan the T. rex sold for $31.8 million

I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

I KNOW DINO, LLC

Iknowdino, Science, Dinosaurs, Dinosaur Podcast, Earth Sciences, Dinosaur, Natural Sciences, Education

4.7653 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Sinocalliopteryx, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Sinocalliopteryx-Episode-307/

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Dinosaur of the day Sinocalliopteryx, a dinosaur that may have specialized at hunting birds.

In dinosaur news this week:

  • New oviraptorosaur from Mongolia named Oksoko only had two fingers on each hand
  • The first ever ankylosaur, Scelidosaurus, finally got a complete description over 150 years after it was excavated
  • A Centrosaurus has the "first confirmed case of malignant bone cancer in a dinosaur”
  • Stan the T. rex went to auction and sold for $31.8 million to an anonymous bidder
  • Dinosaur eggshells from 68 million years ago were recently found in Huesca Province, Spain
  • The Phil Currie Dinosaur Museum has a free virtual speaker series every other Saturday about dinosaurs and paleontology
  • In Australia, Tasmania Zoo has recently reopened and has a new T. rex model
  • The Korea Minting, Security Printing & ID Card Operating Corp made a new commemorative medal of Koreanosaurus
  • If you need a Halloween costume, here are 15 DIY dinosaur costume ideas
  • Universal Orlando is updating their "Jurassic Coaster" to "VelociCoaster" by adding many dinosaur eggs and Velociraptor
  • The Jurassic World: Dominion release date has been delayed for a year to June 10, 2022

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0:00.0

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0:41.6

Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. I'm Garrett.

0:42.4

And I'm Sabrina.

0:53.9

And today in our 307th episode, the last episode before we get into a whole bunch of SVP coverage for the next couple weeks, we've got a new two-fingered dinosaur. Speaking of two-fingered dinosaurs,

0:55.9

we also have an update on Stan the T-Rex and how much it's sold for, and a bunch of other news.

1:02.6

And we have Dinosaur of the Day, Sino-Caleoteric. But before we get into all of that,

1:08.3

we want to thank some of our patrons who are keeping us running these days.

1:12.7

And they are Kyle, Stefan, Kalyn, Francis and his Allosaurus, Blue Gallamer, Ewan, Ranger Chris from Dino for Hire, Bradley, Rohan, and Bilal.

1:24.9

Yeah, thank you so much, everybody, for supporting this podcast and keeping it going with us.

1:30.6

And as Garrett mentioned, we'll be doing a lot of cool stuff this week for SVP.

1:35.8

Actually, usually we end up covering SVP for a few weeks because there's so much.

1:39.7

Keep an eye out and join our community so you get some bonus SVP content. That's at patreon.com

1:46.0

slash I know dino.

1:48.0

Jumping into the news, first we're going to kick it off with our new dinosaur, as is usually

1:53.0

the case. This one was written by Gregory Funston and others and published in Royal Society

1:57.8

Open Science. In it, they describe a new Overaptor from Mongolia.

2:03.3

Overraptors are always kind of fun because they're a little bit goofy and weird and mysterious

2:06.7

in some ways.

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