The 200 Year History of Megalosaurus
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Megalosaurus, the first ever named dinosaur, was named 200 years (and one day) ago! There have been over 50 species of Megalosaurus named, but now there is just one left.
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| 0:41.8 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. I'm Garrett. |
| 0:42.6 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:53.4 | And today in our 482nd episode, we're celebrating 200 years of dinosaurs, specifically 200 years of megalosaurus. |
| 0:58.5 | Yes, the first non-avian dinosaur to be named, |
| 1:01.5 | so it's kind of like we're celebrating the history of dinosaurs. |
| 1:02.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:09.8 | And megalosaurus was named exactly 200 years and one day before this episode came out. |
| 1:18.4 | Yesterday, we did a special live event about megalosaurus, and it's yesterday from when this is released, but it hasn't happened yet from when we're recording this. |
| 1:22.3 | So hopefully it went well. |
| 1:24.6 | I'm just going to say it did. |
| 1:26.2 | Okay. |
| 1:26.9 | I like the optimism. We did art. We talked about |
| 1:31.0 | megalosaurus trivia and... And don't worry, if you weren't able to make it to our free live event, |
| 1:38.5 | we'll be covering a lot of the megalosaurus history and fun facts in this episode. |
| 1:46.1 | I guess that's good that this episode didn't come out before because we probably spoil all |
| 1:50.4 | the trivia that we did in the event. |
| 1:53.5 | But before we get into all of that, as always, we'd like to thank some of our patrons for |
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