Ultrasaurus/Ultrasauros - Episode 21
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
I KNOW DINO, LLC
4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2015
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Interview with paleo-artist Josh Cotton, who works at the Brigham Young University Museum. Also dinosaur news, including dinosaur eggs found in China and a nearly complete Kronosaurus jaw found in Australia. And, dinosaur of the day Ultrasaurus/Ultrasauros, the Korean/American sauropod described using potentially dubious evidence.
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| 0:17.0 | Music now. |
| 0:33.7 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. I'm Garrett. |
| 0:34.9 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:40.3 | And today we have an interview with Josh Cotton, who is a paleo artist at the Brigham Young University Museum, some dinosaur news and a discussion about ultrosaurus and |
| 0:46.3 | ultrasauros. |
| 0:48.3 | So first in the news, some workmen in China found 43 dinosaur eggs while they were laying sewage pipe. |
| 0:57.0 | 19 of those eggs were fully intact, and they've been given to experts to study at the Huyang Dinosaur Museum, |
| 1:06.0 | since it was discovered in the city of Liang, which is in southeast China. |
| 1:11.6 | The eggs were about four to five inches in diameter. |
| 1:15.3 | Apparently one worker tried to take off with two of the eggs, but he was stopped, |
| 1:20.9 | and he ended up running away empty-handed. |
| 1:23.7 | And so some people formed a human chain to protect the site until police came and the eggs were able to be taken out to be examined. |
| 1:31.3 | The curator of the museum, Du Yan Li, said, quote, there were fossilized dinosaur eggs everywhere in the red sandstone layer, but they were never found because the city was built on top of the layers. |
| 1:42.8 | The Heung Dinosaur Museum said that since dinosaur eggs were first discovered in China in 1996, |
| 1:49.3 | there have been more than 17,000 fossilized dinosaur eggs found. |
| 1:53.9 | This museum has one of the largest dinosaur egg collections in the world, |
| 1:58.3 | and the city Huyang has now dubbed itself as China's home of dinosaurs. |
| 2:03.0 | In Australia, a farmer in Queensland found a nearly complete jaw of chronosaurus, which isn't |
| 2:09.6 | a dinosaur, but this story sounded cool enough to share. |
| 2:13.7 | The jaw is about five feet long from a chronosaurus Queenslandicus, and it's more than 100 million years old. |
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