Xixiasaurus - Episode 84
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
I KNOW DINO, LLC
4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2016
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Interview with Dr. Scott Persons, who has a PhD in evolution and systematics from the University of Alberta and works for Dr. Philip J. Currie (who we interviewed in Tarbosaurus - episode 4).
Dinosaur news, including scientists have found two mummified baby dinosaur/bird wings, dinosaur bones in Thailand, Chester city centre dinosaur trails, and more.
Also our dinosaur of the day Xixiasaurus, a troodontid with sickle claws and keen senses.
You can reach Dr. Persons on Twitter @WScottPersons. And you can see the introduction to his Paleo 101 course on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jX4_mWAlUg as well as an awesome short video of the University of Alberta using a helicopter to lift a dinosaur skull out of the ground at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJmHONyeLZ8&feature=youtu.be.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by K-12-powered schools, tuition-free online accredited public schools for kindergarten through 12th grade. |
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| 0:19.3 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino, the Big Dinosaur podcast, where we cover news, interviews, and |
| 0:27.2 | discussions of all things Dinosaur. Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. I'm Garrett. And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:34.4 | In this episode, we have an interview with Dr. Scott Persons, and we might be the first people to have interviewed him since he got his doctorate. |
| 0:42.7 | Congratulations. |
| 0:43.8 | Yeah, it's awesome. |
| 0:45.3 | And we have our dinosaur of the day, Shishiosaurus, and a bunch of dinosaur news. |
| 0:50.9 | And we also want to give a big shout out to our patrons at patreon.com slash I know-dino. |
| 0:58.4 | We really appreciate your support. |
| 1:00.6 | There's some really exciting news, so we're going to start with that. |
| 1:04.0 | There's a new paper by Lita Xing and others published in Nature, and it describes two |
| 1:09.7 | incredible new finds that were in amber. |
| 1:12.3 | Specifically, they found two mummified baby dinosaur slash bird wings from about 99 million years ago, |
| 1:20.0 | which is the Mid-Cretaceous. |
| 1:22.3 | So the specimens come from the Angbamo site in Myanmar, and so the amber that they're in is called Burmese |
| 1:30.6 | amber, which fluoresces blue when bombarded with UV light, which is one of the techniques they |
| 1:36.1 | use to make sure that it was a legitimate find and not some sort of forgery. |
| 1:41.6 | They're actually not the first feathers that were found in amber, but they |
| 1:46.0 | are the first dinosaur wings that we've ever seen preserved. And they're not complete wings. Both of |
| 1:51.9 | them start part way down the ulna and radius, but that still leaves a lot of the wing left in the |
| 1:58.2 | amber because part of the wing is that their hand kind of gets bigger. |
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