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I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

Supersaurus - Episode 238

I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

I KNOW DINO, LLC

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

4.7 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Dinosaur of the day Supersaurus, a Portuguese relative of Diplodocus.

In dinosaur news this week:

  • Several new opalized Iguanodontian fossils were described from Australia and were used to name a new dinosaur: Fostoria
  • Two new dinosaurs were found in Thailand within a few miles of each other: Phuwiangvenator and Vayuraptor
  • The National Museum in Rio de Janeiro lost less specimens than previously thought
  • The new exhibit DinoQuest opened at the Science Centre Singapore
  • A replica of Scotty the T. rex is now at the Durham Museum in Omaha, Nebraska
  • The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Hall of Fossils reopened after years of renovations
  • Kids from two group homes in Oklahoma will be digging for dinosaurs this summer at a site near Black Mesa
  • Robert McIntosh made a video flying a drone through the Natural History Museum of Utah
  • The French Lick Scenic Railway will have a Dinosaur Adventure Train and other activities
  • In Michigan, 77-year old Sandra Crabb recently purchased Prehistoric Forest and hopes to bring it back to life
  • In New Brunswick, Canada, Robin Hanson made a T. rex sculpture for his grandchildren
  • John Hendrick’s mansion and ranch in Gateway, Colorado, is for sale including a dinosaur footprint
  • Netflix released the first trailer for the new animated Jurassic World spinoff, Jurassic Park: Camp Cretaceous

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Transcript

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

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And I'm Sabrina.

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In today's episode, we have a ton of dinosaur news, including three new dinosaurs, more on the Jurassic

0:56.2

World Show, which is coming to Netflix, and a bunch of exhibit updates. We also have

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Dinosaur of the Day Supersaurus, and of course a fun fact. But before we get into all of that,

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we would like to thank some of our patrons, and this week we'd like to thank

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Scottie, Megan Dixon, Kessler, Grandpa Dino, rhinosaurus, Morgan Eklove, Dr. Eganbot, Lori,

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Risa, Kelly, Manda, Lorosaurus, Timmy, James Pasco, Gabe, Courtney, and TRX dinosaurs, who have been a patron for a while, but we're just now giving them a shout out.

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Yeah, thank you so much to everybody. We really appreciate all of your support and we say this every week, but we really do mean it.

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So thank you. And if you want to join this growing community, and it's

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growing, we're happy to see it grow, then go to our page at patreon.com slash I know dino. First in the news,

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we have a new iguanadontian from Australia, which was written by Phil Bell and others and published in JVP.

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And thanks to Dino Info65 and Trevor for sharing this one with us.

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So the new dinosaur is named Fostoria, Dimban Gunmal, and Fostoria is named after Bob Foster,

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who found the fossils way back in 1986, and he actually held on to them for a while

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in his own little private museum before donating them to the Australian Opel Center, which is a

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public place, so then researchers could have access to it and publish on them. And then Dimban

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