Steve Brusatte and the Story of Birds
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Steve Brusatte joins to discuss the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid. Plus a new alvarezsauroid which is the most complete and smallest dinosaur ever found in South America.
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Dinosaur of the day Tataouinea, a rebbachisaurid sauropod and the first articulated dinosaur skeleton found in Tunisia.
Interview with Steve Brusatte, a professor of Palaeontology and Evolution at the University of Edinburgh. He is also the paleontology advisor for Jurassic World and author of a numerous of best-selling paleontology books. His latest book is The Story of Birds (which is already a NYT Best Seller)
In dinosaur news this week:
- There’s a new alvarezsauroid, Alnashetri, which has set a record as the most complete dinosaur found in South America
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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. |
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| 0:18.3 | Yes. |
| 0:19.2 | We have a handful of responses now, which is great. |
| 0:22.1 | Thank you. |
| 0:22.5 | But we'd like to know more. |
| 0:31.4 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. |
| 0:33.7 | Keep up with the latest dinosaur discoveries and science with us. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:37.3 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:38.2 | And today in our 566th episode, we've got an interview with Dr. Steve Broussadi. |
| 0:45.9 | Yes, the paleontology advisor for Jurassic World and author of The Story of Birds. |
| 0:51.4 | But before we have our interview, we have some news, which is a new, nearly complete |
| 0:55.9 | and tiny alvarosaur, Alna Shetri. And we have Dinosaur of the Day, Tatooinia, a sauropa with a lot |
| 1:03.5 | of Aresax that doesn't have much to do with Star Wars. I was going to say, it just sounds like |
| 1:10.0 | Tatooine. Yes. I mean, there's a connection, |
| 1:13.2 | but a tenuous one. And our fun fact is that scientists have updated a powerful calculator |
| 1:19.3 | that will allow researchers to figure out how different species weathered mass extinction |
| 1:24.6 | events. Nice. I always like it when they figure out how species survive mass extinction events because |
| 1:31.7 | maybe one day us humans will want to try to survive what would otherwise be a mass |
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