Thecodontosaurus - Best of 2018
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2019
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Dinosaur of the day Thecodontosaurus, a Triassic sauropodomorph discovered in 1830s England.
In dinosaur news this week:
- Best discovery: Ledumahadi
- 2nd best discovery: Jinyunpelta
- Best listener question: What species of modern bird is the closest living relative of theropods, or more specifically raptors?
- Most controversial paper: Spinosaurus probably couldn’t swim very well
- Best dino food study: Dromeosaurs probably didn’t pack hunt
- Best dinosaur biomechanic study: “Puncture-and-Pull Biomechanics”
- Best paleopathology study: Diplodocus femur and hip pathologies
- Best new tracksite: Goddard Space Flight Center tracks
- Best extinction paper: How widespread forest fires affected bird evolution
- Best baby dinosaur discovery: A nestling-sized skeleton of Edmontosaurus
- Best Book (fiction): Bolivar (published end of 2017)
- Best Book (non-fiction): The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- Best board Game: Jurassic Park: Danger
- 2nd best board game: Cluedo: The Stolen Stegosaurus Mystery game
- Best Video Game: Jurassic World: Evolution
- Best movie release: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- Best Video (live action): Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom parkour
- Best Video (animated): College Humor Jurassic Park with other prehistoric creatures
- 2nd best Video (animated): Jurassic Park in heels
- Best story about dinosaurs bringing people together: A four-year-old received over 100 dinosaur toys after his house burned down
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| 0:31.6 | Music Hello and welcome to I know Dino. I'm Garrett. |
| 0:48.4 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:49.3 | This week we have Dinosaur of the Day Thicodontosaurus. |
| 0:52.7 | And we have our best of 2018. Wow. That came up so quick. It did. There was a lot to cover this year. So it's a little bit of a longer episode. But we really pared it down. It was difficult, but we did limit it to hopefully under two hours when all said and done. Yeah, we had a lot of favorites. |
| 1:11.9 | Yes. |
| 1:12.8 | But before we get into our best of, we want to thank some of our patrons. |
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| 1:51.1 | slash I know-dino for special rewards. So jumping right into the best news stories of 2018, |
| 1:58.1 | we've got the best discovery, which was Lidou Mahadi. |
| 2:02.0 | And here is Garrett with the news. |
| 2:05.3 | It's really special because it is a huge sauropodomorph, but it isn't a true sauropod. |
| 2:12.4 | So it doesn't have the sort of characteristic legs and neck and tail that you're used to seeing |
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