What Triassic dinosaurs ate

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🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Episode 438: What Triassic dinosaurs ate. Plus a new Torosaurus specimen, a new spinosaurid find that includes arms, and we connect dinosaurs to Emmy Noether

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Dinosaur of the day Mymoorapelta, The smallest known four-legged dinosaur from the Morrison Formation and one of the smallest ankylosaurs.

In dinosaur news this week:

The earliest dinosaurs had surprising diets
Ornithischians evolved to eat plants in many different ways
A new Torosaurus specimen has been found
Scientists have discovered a new spinosaurid
The Natural History Museum in London recently discovered an agate crystal in its collections is a titanosaur egg
Crystal Palace Dinosaurs recently got more funding
Filmmaker Danny Donahue made a short sci-fi film called Hell Creek

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0:41.0	Hello and welcome to I Know Dino.
0:41.7	I'm Garrett.
0:42.4	And I'm Sabrina.
0:51.6	And today in our 438th episode, we have a bunch of news, and I don't know anything about it because Sabrina's doing all of it.
0:52.7	So what are you going to tell me about?
0:55.8	Well, we've got some papers on what early dinosaurs were eating. And there's a lot of new exciting fossils that have been found
1:01.9	recently. And we've also got a short dinosaur sci-fi film. It came out a while ago, but it's
1:09.0	worth watching. Cool.
1:15.4	I also have a dinosaur connection challenge, which I think went in a really interesting direction. It's about a famous mathematician named Emmy Nerta, but my connection doesn't have anything to do with math, which is fun.
1:26.1	Oh, no.
1:28.4	And of course, we have our dinosaurinosaur of the Day, My Morapelta. You should like that one. It's an enkylosaur. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't have to look up how to say that one. I knew that one immediately. But before we get into all of that, we want to thank some of our patrons for helping to keep our podcast running and and we have two new patrons to thank this week getting their first shoutouts, and they are Brenton
1:49.5	and Clarissa, as well as John. Thank you both very much for joining. And then rounding out our
1:57.2	shoutouts, we've got Malina Manoli, Dr. Vespa, Histology Soros, The Gray Allosaurus, Dragon Feathers, Brook, Rocko Raptor, and Krista.
2:10.2	Thank you so much for being part of our community. We really appreciate you all.
2:14.7	Jumping into the news, the earliest dinosaurs had surprising diets. Was it other animals?
2:23.5	It's more about like how dinosaurs had all different ways of eating foods, but what did they
2:29.7	eat and like how did the first herbivorous dinosaurs become herbivorous plant eaters?
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