The new grey skulled sauropodomorph and Mission Jurassic
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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🗓️ 28 August 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Dinosaur of the day Polacanthus, an ankylosaur that was described in the 1800s, but no one is sure who named it.
In dinosaur news this week:
- After decades of being classified as Massospondylus, “grey skull” has a new name, Ngwevu intloko
- Mission Jurassic in North Wyoming could hold over 100 dinosaurs in one square mile
- A group of juvenile hadrosaurs was found at Pipestone Creek, near the Philip J. Currie Museum
- The Scottish government is working on better protecting the fossils on the Isle of Skye in Scotland
- In India, a group of scientists are pushing for a bill that will designate and safeguard fossil sites
- In Romania, new dinosaur nests have been found, most likely from a hadrosaur like Telmatosaurus
- The Natural History Museum in London has digitized their holotype of Mantellisaurus
- The Central Museum of Mongolian Dinosaurs recently opened a new exhibition hall, themed Paleozoic Era
- Dinosaur Park in Laurel, Maryland has an open house this summer, on September 7
- Trix the T.rex is back in Leiden, at the updated Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands
- A new project called “On the Trail of Dinosaurs,” will bring the Dinosaur Tracks from the Australian Dampier Peninsula to life
- children visiting the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences regularly try to help the injured sauropod, giving it hugs and Band-Aids.
- South Dakota rancher Kenny Brown recently retired and bequeathed his 1,330 acre ranch to the School of Mines
- PLOS One blog has a list of events for National Fossil Day in the US (October 16)
- On August 29, the US Postal Service is issuing four new T. rex stamps, with a holographs
- Nickelodeon has a new animated series coming out September 14, LEGO Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nubar
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| 0:48.1 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:49.2 | This week in our 248th episode, we have an incredible amount of news, including a noesore potomorph from South Africa. |
| 0:58.4 | We also have Dinosaur of the Day Polakhanthus, and of course, our fun fact. |
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| 1:46.6 | Jumping into the news, we have a new dinosaur, thanks to Velociraptor 256 for mentioning it on |
| 1:52.6 | our Discord server. This one was published in Pure J and written by Kimberly Chappelle, Paul Barrett, |
| 1:58.6 | and others. And in it, they describe Ninguervu Intlo |
| 2:03.7 | Co, which is in the Ossa language. I did my best to pronounce that properly. The full name |
| 2:10.1 | translates to gray skull, and researchers have been calling it that for years. The skull is gray, |
| 2:16.1 | and therefore, why not call a gray skull? |
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