The "Reaper of death" Thanatotheristes
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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🗓️ 19 February 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Dinosaur of the day Ekrixinatosaurus, the "explosion born" abelisaurid from Argentina.
In dinosaur news this week:
- Our first visit to the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show
- A new tyrannosaurid, Thanatotheristes, was found in Canada
- Utah may soon have a Utahraptor State Park
- 150,000 illustrations of the natural world have been posted free at the Biodiversity Heritage Library
- The animatronic Bisti Beast needs a new nickname and you can vote for your favorite
- The UK Royal Mint has released 3 new coins commemorating Dinosauria, including Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, and Hylaeosaurus
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| 0:45.6 | Hello and welcome to I know-dino. I'm Garrett. And I'm Sabrina. This week in our 273rd episode, we have a bunch of dinosaur news, including a new Tyrannosaur. And we're also going to talk about |
| 0:51.4 | our recent trip to the gem show in Tucson, where we saw some cool new dinosaur stuff. |
| 0:57.2 | And we have Dinosaur of the Day, Ek rixinatosaurus. |
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| 1:39.4 | Jumping into the news, our new Tyrannosaur was requested by Ad Astra on Discord. They actually requested |
| 1:46.9 | it as a dinosaur of the day, but since it's brand new, we just cover it in the news section instead. |
| 1:52.2 | And this one was published in Cretaceous research. It's behind a paywall, so we mostly based it |
| 1:57.2 | on a Smithsonian article by Riley Black, but the original paper was written by |
| 2:01.5 | Jared Vorisa and others, and in it they describe a new Tyrannosaur. It was actually found way |
| 2:09.1 | back in 2010 in Alberta, Canada. Originally, it was thought to be the existing genus |
| 2:14.6 | despletosaurus, but now they gave it a new genus name, and that is |
| 2:19.3 | Thanato Theris de Grutorum. |
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