Vastatosaurus rex - Episode 95
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
I KNOW DINO, LLC
4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2016
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Interview with Dr. Brian Noble, author of Articulating Dinosaurs.
New carnivorous dinosaur Wiehenvenator albati discovered, Jurassic World 2 is officially a trilogy and will have open source dinosaur technology, custom dinosaur shirts, new games, new shows, and more. Also dinosaur of the day Vastatosaurus rex, a fictionalized version of T. rex from the movie King Kong.
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| 0:19.1 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino, the Big Dinosaur podcast, where we cover news, |
| 0:26.3 | interviews and discussions of all things Dinosaur. Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. I'm |
| 0:33.2 | Garrett. And I'm Sabrina. This week we have an interview with Brian Noble. |
| 0:46.8 | Our dinosaur of the day is Vasta Taurus Rex, which is the fictional T-Rex descendant in the 2005 King Kong movie. |
| 0:48.3 | But we're really going to talk about probably the original King Kong movie a little bit |
| 0:52.2 | more, which they call T-Rex. |
| 0:53.7 | But anyway, we have a bunch of dinosaur news. |
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| 1:02.7 | You may notice that this is episode 95, so we are rapidly approaching our 100th episode. |
| 1:09.0 | And we've got some plans on how we plan to celebrate that. So stay tuned |
| 1:14.2 | with more details in upcoming episodes. Yep. And there'll be special benefits to all our patrons. |
| 1:21.3 | So jumping into the news, there's a new dinosaur discovery. Well, maybe not that new. It was actually discovered back in 1998 by |
| 1:30.1 | Oliver Rauchut and colleagues, but they've been preparing the fossil and then the paper since then, |
| 1:37.9 | but we still don't know too much about it. It's named Vihnvanator Albatai, and Vihen comes from a chain of hills in |
| 1:48.1 | northwest Germany, which is west of Hanover, where it was found, and Venator is Latin for |
| 1:53.8 | Hunter. We see that in a fair number of dinosaur names. Concavenator. Afrovenator. Yeah. The specific name Albatai honors geologist Friedrich Albat who found the fossil, though it was 18 years ago now. |
| 2:11.8 | It's a megalosauroid, and unfortunately, much like megalosaurus, they didn't find much of the skeleton. |
| 2:20.2 | They have a decent portion of the front of the skull, six big sharp teeth, |
| 2:25.2 | and some of them even have preserved serrations, even though they're not particularly well preserved. |
| 2:31.5 | There are also a couple of vertebrae, ribs, leg bones, and some other small pieces, |
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