Was T. rex as smart as a baboon?
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Episode 431: Was T. rex as smart as a baboon? Plus Evan Johnson-Ransom and Julius Csotonyi join us to discuss their new massive book titled Dinosaur World: Over 1,200 Amazing Dinosaurs, Famous Fossils, and the Latest Discoveries from the Prehistoric Era
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Dinosaur of the day Lurdusaurus, a large iguandont that despite being 6.5 ft tall, only held its belly about 2 ft off the ground..
Interview with Julius and Evan. Evan Johnson-Ransom is a PhD student at the University of Chicago a studying the functional morphology and feeding behavior of dinosaurs. Julius Csotonyi is a talented paleoartist who has created life-sized dinosaur murals for many museums and also illustrated the new book Dinosaur World which Evan wrote.
In dinosaur news this week:
- A new study claims that theropods were as intelligent as primates (but not everyone agrees)
- A single Allosaurus had 10 pathologies
- An ornithomimosaur was injured via blunt force trauma to its foot
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| 0:52.6 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. I'm Garrett. And I'm Sabrina. And today in our 431st episode, we have a bunch of news, including a controversial paper on how smart T-Rex was. |
| 1:12.7 | Oh, yes. That made the rounds on the internet. It did. I mean, it was sort of about theropods, but I think they might have even put Tyrannosaurus in the title. It seemed like they were really going for a lot of attention. I thought it was theropods in general. Yeah. I mean, it kind of was, but we'll get into that more later. I've also got some items about pathologies. |
| 1:13.5 | Nice. |
| 1:16.6 | I mean, not nice for the dinosaurs that had injuries. |
| 1:17.0 | No. |
| 1:19.1 | But interesting for us. |
| 1:19.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.4 | Tell us about their lives. |
| 1:28.8 | And we have an interview with Julius Chittany and Evan Johnson Ransom about their new very comprehensive book, |
| 1:32.4 | sort of a compendium of all sorts of new dinosaurs. |
| 1:35.6 | And we have Dinosaur of the Day, Lurdosaurus. |
| 1:40.8 | But before we get into all of that, real quick, we want to thank some of our patrons, |
| 1:45.5 | and we have one new patron to thank this week, and that is Penguin Yelts. |
| 1:47.8 | Thank you very much for joining. |
| 1:48.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:53.1 | You've already been pretty active in the Discord, and I have had fun talking to you, |
| 1:53.9 | so I appreciate that. |
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