What is a raptor and how did they use their claws?
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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🗓️ 18 September 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Dinosaur of the day Huayangosaurus, a smaller Chinese relative of Stegosaurus.
Interview with Ari Rudenko, the founder and artistic director of Prehistoric Body Theater, a performance company that uses dance to teach about paleontology and evolution. His show, Ghosts of Hell Creek, is currently fundraising to go on tour.
In dinosaur news this week:
- A new study finds that raptors likely used their claws for grasping or restraining prey
- A new fully rooted Triceratops tooth is on display at Casper college in Wyoming
- The Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands 3D printed some missing bones of their new Triceratops
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| 0:47.8 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:49.4 | This week in our 251st episode, we have some dinosaur news, including how Diononicus may have used its |
| 0:57.9 | claws and 3D printing some triceratops bones. We also have an interview with Ari Rudenko, |
| 1:04.7 | who we first interviewed years ago about his stage performance Ghosts of hell Creek, which is all about |
| 1:11.6 | dinosaurs and dancing like a dinosaur. And we have dinosaur of the day, Huangangosaurus, |
| 1:18.5 | and of course a fun fact, which is about velociraptors and other raptors. It's a fun with |
| 1:24.2 | raptors episode. It is. But before we get into all of that, we'd like to thank some of our patrons for supporting us. |
| 1:32.0 | And this week we'd like to thank Kyle, Brendan Kavanaugh, |
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| 1:52.0 | Yes, thank you so much for all your support. It got us to 250 episodes, which we aired last week on the Bone Wars and of course this episode, |
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| 2:12.5 | Jumping into the news, as promised, |
| 2:14.8 | we have an update on how raptors like Dinanicus use their claws, |
| 2:19.8 | and this is according to an article by Peter Bishop published in Pier J. So if you think about |
| 2:25.7 | what raptors might have used their claws for, and of course when I'm talking about their |
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