Updates on the Origins of Dinosaurs
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
I KNOW DINO, LLC
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Two new dinosaurs from the middle of the Triassic: the theropod Anteavis and the sauropodomorph Huayracursor. Plus our reviews of several TV shows, movies, and books including Walking with Dinosaurs.
For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Ornithopsis, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Ornithopsis-Episode-556/
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Dinosaur of the day Ornithopsis, a titanosaur found way back in the 1830s which was named for its bone's similarity to the lightweight structure of a bird's skeleton.
In dinosaur news this week:
- We not yet have found the earliest dinosaur fossils, but they may be in the Amazon and areas by the equator in South America and Africa
- Dinosaurs may have originated in South America, and then moved simultaneously to the east and north
- There’s a new very early theropod dinosaur, Anteavis crurilongus
- A nearly complete skeleton from a Triassic sauropodomorph, Huayracursor jaguensis
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| 0:00.0 | It's that time of year where you can get an exclusive patch from us, |
| 0:05.2 | but only if you're a dino at all in our Patreon community. |
| 0:08.6 | For the first time ever, we're doing a sauropod this year, Bahadosaurus, and it turned out great. |
| 0:14.7 | If you want to see it, head over to patreon.com slash I know-dino, |
| 0:18.3 | and if you want to get it, make sure you join at at our triceratops tier or above by February 28th. |
| 0:32.1 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. Keep up with the latest dinosaur discoveries and science with us. I'm Garrett. |
| 0:38.6 | And I'm Sabrina. And today in our 556th episode, we're learning more about the origins of dinosaurs, |
| 0:47.3 | which seems fitting because this is our first episode of the new year. Happy New Year. Origins of |
| 0:51.7 | 2026 and origins of dinosaurs? Yeah. |
| 0:54.9 | Like, where might they have started? |
| 0:56.8 | The dinosaurs, not 2026. |
| 0:59.7 | There's also two new dinosaurs that help with this question. |
| 1:02.7 | We've got the early theropod antiavus and the early sauropodomorph Hauri cursor. |
| 1:09.4 | Plus, we've got recaps and reviews of the dinosaur shows and books from 2025 last year, |
| 1:15.9 | walking with dinosaurs, Jurassic Games Extinction, the White Death, and the Real Story of Dinosaurs and Dragons. |
| 1:22.4 | We also have Dinosaur of the Day, Ornithopsis, a sauropod with a mixed-up history. |
| 1:28.8 | And our fun fact, which is, |
| 1:35.6 | there's a growing field of paleo-inspired robotics. Uh-huh. I like that. It reminds me of, |
| 1:42.1 | what was it? It was like a T-Rex simulating bite force. I saw it on like the Discovery Channel at one point, but it was a robot and it was like, oh, what can it bite through? And I like thrown all sorts of stuff in it. That's pretty cool. I could see how Ornithopsis too would be a mixed up history for a sauropod because ornithop, the bird starting of the name doesn't sound like what you would usually name a sauropod. It's what happens for the early named dinosaurs. |
| 2:02.2 | Yeah. |
| 2:03.1 | But before we get into all of that, as always, we'd like to thank some of our patrons for keeping |
| 2:07.6 | our podcast running. |
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