The largest dinosaur ever found in Australia

I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

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🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Sauroniops, links from Dean Lomax, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Sauroniops-Episode-342/

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Dinosaur of the day Sauroniops, a large carcharodontosaurid with a dome on its head.

Interview with Dean Lomax, an award winning paleontologist and currently Visiting Scientist at The University of Manchester, UK. He is also a scientific consultant for many shows and author of the new book, Locked In Time, which looks at animal behavior through 50 extraordinary fossils. Follow him on twitter or Instagram @Dean_R_Lomax.

In dinosaur news this week:

"Cooper" is now officially Australotitan cooperensis and is the largest dinosaur ever described from Australia
Paleontologists in Yunnan Province, China, found a 70% complete skeleton, probably Lufengosaurus
Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, WA has a animatronic dinosaur exhibit
Mayborn Museum in Waco, Texas has a temporary exhibit: “The World’s Largest Dinosaurs" Created by AMNH

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0:41.5	Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. I'm Garrett.
0:42.2	And I'm Sabrina.
0:55.8	And today in our 342nd episode, we have a bunch of news, including the long-awaited description of Cooper, the massive titanosaur from Australia. Oh yeah, we've been waiting for years.
1:01.2	It's been breaking the internet as much as any dinosaur does, I guess. It's all over the place.
1:05.8	That's also a very large dinosaur. Yeah, yeah. It could break, it could definitely break a laptop or something if it stood on it, that's for sure. So, yeah, we're going to talk a lot about that
1:09.8	and other news.
1:15.6	We also have an interview with Dean Lomax, where we talk about all sorts of different fossils,
1:20.2	including some really funny, topical stuff, like fossilized flatulence.
1:22.2	It's got a nice alliteration to it.
1:24.2	It's really hard to say. That took me a couple tries.
1:31.9	And we have Dinosaur of the Day, Soronyops, or Soraniops, depending on where you put the Amphasis.
1:38.9	Before we get into all that, though, it's June 16th, or at least it will be when this episode drops.
1:43.6	And that means we're ready to announce our winner for our t-shirt design competition.
1:51.2	So first, just want to say, again, thank you so much to everybody who participated in designing and in voting for the designs.
1:53.4	It was a really great experience and it was so cool to see all the designs.
1:59.3	Oh, yeah.
1:59.8	We were amazed at how many entrants we got. We were
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