Stegosaurus is the Most Valuable Dinosaur

I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

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🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

A Stegosaurus just sold for over $44 million; A brand new burrowing dinosaur was found in a group; And a new iguanodontian which is the most complete dino found in Britain in 100 years

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Dinosaur of the day , a small noasaurid carnivore (related to Masiakasaurus) which was once known as Jubbulpuria.

In dinosaur news this week:

A Stegosaurus nicknamed Apex just sold at auction for $44.6 million, making it the most valuable dinosaur skeleton ever sold
There’s a new dinosaur, Fona herzogae, that seems to have been buried in a group in its burrow
There’s a new iguanodontian dinosaur, Comptonatus chasei, which is the most complete dinosaur found in Britain in 100 years
The Museum of Evolution in Denmark has a new Camarasaurus to add to its collection of dinosaurs from Wyoming

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0:41.2	Hello and welcome to I Know Dino.
0:45.0	Keep up with the latest dinosaur discoveries and science with us.
0:45.9	I'm Garrett.
0:46.8	And I'm Sabrina.
0:59.4	And today in our 506th episode, we've got a bunch of news, including the mainstream news of a record-breaking stegosaurus fossil sale you may have already heard of.
1:02.0	Oh, yes, in the multi-millions.
1:10.0	There's also two new dinosaurs, including one that burrowed and the most complete dinosaur found in Britain in the last hundred years.
1:13.5	We also have our dinoidol challenge.
1:19.1	We're going to be reading our fifth puzzle as well as revealing the answers from last week's puzzle.
1:25.2	We've got Dinosaur of the Day, Jubilpuria, which is now Levasukas.
1:30.4	And we have a fun fact, which is that early mammals had longer lifespans and took longer to develop, which goes with our previous fun fact that mammals today may have
1:35.8	had shorter lifespans thanks to dinosaurs.
1:38.4	You're building on the tyranny of the dinosaurs messing with our mammalian ancestors.
1:45.1	Kind of.
1:45.9	Well, we'll see.
1:47.7	More in the fun fact section.
1:50.3	But before we get into all of that, we want to thank some of our patrons, and we have a new patron to thank this week, and that's Clark.
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