Therizinosaurus had weak claws
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Episode 434: Therizinosaurus had weak claws. Did Therizinosaurus have claws that were too large to be useful? Did Alvarezsaurus have claws that were too small? How dinosaurs played, how raptors used their claws, and dinosaurs in space.
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Dinosaur of the day Struthiosaurus, a small nodosaurid from Europe (not to be confused with the ornithomimid Struthiomimus)..
In dinosaur news this week:
- Alvarezsaurs and therizinosaurs were weird, and the giant claws of Therizinosaurus were surprisingly weak
- Scientists studied birds to figure out how dinosaurs may have played
- Raptors probably used their “killing claws” to pin their prey, rather than slash at prey.
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| 0:41.7 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. I'm Garrett. |
| 0:42.4 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:51.8 | And today in our 434th episode, we have a bunch of news including dinosaur claws and dinosaur play. |
| 0:55.7 | Or so Sabrina tells me, because she is doing all of the news. |
| 0:57.6 | Oh, lucky me. |
| 1:00.6 | I don't remember you ever doing all of the news before. |
| 1:01.4 | It's very weird. |
| 1:03.8 | I think it's happened once or twice, but it is rare. |
| 1:08.3 | So I guess I'm going to learn a lot about what's going on in the news. |
| 1:09.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.7 | Well, you're going to tell me about satellites. |
| 1:13.5 | I am. |
| 1:15.3 | That's our dinosaur connection challenge. |
| 1:22.1 | And we have Dinosaur of the Day, Sturutiosaurus, and of course, a fun fact, which is about comets and how they relate to dinosaurs. |
| 1:25.7 | Is it because you were looking up stuff about satellites |
| 1:28.6 | and then comets are a natural extension when it comes to dinosaurs? |
| 1:32.1 | Exactly, yes. |
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