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Thu. 09/01 - Littlefoot's Ancestor Is Oldest Ever Dino Found In Africa

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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One of the biggest ever and one of the smallest ever sauropods, both discovered recently and both helping us learn more about where and why dinosaurs traveled millions of years ago. Plus, the latest on the soon-to-be-available omicron booster shots. Dolly Parton’s new Doggy Parton line, a Taco Bell-hosted metaverse wedding, and an update on the Taco Bell Mexican Pizza Tik Tok Musical. Sponsors: BetterHelp, Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/COOLSTUFF Kolide, Got Slack? Got Macs? Get Kolide: Device security that fixes challenging problems by messaging your users on Slack. Try Kolide Today! https://l.kolide.co/3aVdR90 Links: Adorable Little Sauropod Is Oldest Confirmed Dinosaur Ever Found in Africa (ScienceAlert) New Dinosaur Species Is Oldest Ever Found in Africa (Scientific American) Dinosaur remains in Portuguese garden could be Europe’s largest ever find (The Guardian) Largest dinosaur skeleton in Europe may have been found in Portugal (Phys.org) FDA authorizes Pfizer's and Moderna's updated Covid booster shots (NBC News) What to Know About the New Covid Booster Shots (NY Times) Vaccines.gov “ALMOST as Good as a Mexican Pizza”: Dolly Parton on Working with Doja Cat on Mexican Pizza: The Musical: Exclusive (Consequence)  Taco Bell® Metaverse Wedding (Taco Bell)  Thu. 05/12 - 1st Image of Milky Way Black Hole & 1st Taco Bell TikTok Musical, Equally Important Events (Cool Stuff Ride Home) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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it's thursday september 1st, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. One of the biggest ever and one of the smallest ever, Sauropods, both discovered recently and both helping us learn more about where and why dinosaurs traveled millions of years ago.

0:59.3

Plus, the latest on the soon-to-be-available Omicron booster shots,

1:02.6

Dolly Parton's new Doggy Parton line,

1:05.4

a Taco Bell-hosted Metaverse wedding,

1:10.2

and an update on the Taco Bell Mexican Pizza TikTok musical.

1:13.3

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

1:19.9

Even though we often think of dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus Rex,

1:23.2

or more recently other theropods like the giganatosaurus,

1:28.7

as the largest of the dinosaurs and the biggest creatures to ever walk the earth, they are actually dwarfed in comparison to sauropods.

1:32.5

Soropods, the ones that as kids we referred to as longnecks, tended to be substantially

1:38.4

longer and much heavier than theropods like the T-Rex.

1:43.3

Though it's tough to estimate based on incomplete fossils,

1:46.8

and to generalize across multiple species, here is a rough example. The gigantosaurus is thought

1:53.3

to have been 12 to 13 meters long and anywhere from 4 to 12 tons in weight. Meanwhile, Titanosaurs, a group of some of the biggest

2:03.0

sauropods, were about 37 meters long and weighed about 69 tons or more. But sauropods

2:11.2

weren't always such hulking beasts. A new dinosaur skeleton described in the journal

2:16.3

Nature yesterday has uncovered one of the

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