Why Ankylosaurus is the best dinosaur
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Aegyptosaurus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Aegyptosaurus-Episode-395/
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Dinosaur of the day Aegyptosaurus, a sauropod from Egypt which like Spinosaurus was mostly lost to science in Munich during WWII.
Ankylosaurus is the longest, heaviest, and widest ankylosaur. But those aren't the only details that make Ankylosaurus such a special dinosaur.
Some of the papers we cover that we didn't discuss back in Episode 5:
- Original paper describing Ankylosaurus & Ankylosauridae by Barnum Brown from 1908
- How ankylosaurid tails evolved by Arbour & Currie
- Ankylosaurid tail posture, club sizes, and uses by Coombs (including the shin bashing & head butting hypotheses)
- Redescription of Ankylosaurus by Arbour & Mallon with its overall tank-like proportions
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| 0:40.8 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. |
| 0:41.5 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:42.2 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:52.4 | And today in our 395th episode, we don't have any news, but we do have a discussion about why Ankylosaurus is the best dinosaur. |
| 1:00.7 | We have had episodes about brannosaurus and Apottosaurus, so it only seemed fair to look at Enkylosaurus. |
| 1:06.0 | Well, we did have Ankylosaurus as our Dinosaur of the Day in our fifth ever episode. |
| 1:12.7 | But it's been over seven years since then, and there's actually been quite a few updates, so I think it's worth doing. |
| 1:20.8 | Plus, back when we first covered Ankylosaurus, we hadn't found Zool or Borealopelta yet, which both helped us understand. |
| 1:23.1 | And Ankylosaurus in general, much better. |
| 1:29.2 | And then you also have Dinosaur of the Day egyptosaurus, which I think is a sauropod. |
| 1:34.2 | I always have to get a sauropod in there if I can. |
| 1:34.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:38.7 | And I've got a fun fact, which is about Enkyosaurus as well. |
| 1:41.0 | Bring it back to the original topic. |
| 1:44.8 | But before we get into that, we want to thank some of our patrons. |
| 1:58.8 | And this week we'd like to thank Cameron, Reed, Cosmic Parasaur, Sezzisaurus, Bill Jago, Aria, and Tristanosaurus, Chris, Joaquin, Jackson Crawford, and Deplodicate. |
| 2:02.3 | Thank you so much, and welcome to our dinosaur community. |
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