Yale Peabody Museum expansion and a new ceratopsian
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2021
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Dinosaur of the day Cetiosaurus, the first sauropod to be described, although it was originally thought to be a whale or large crocodile.
Interview with Mariana Di Giacomo, paleontologist and Natural History Conservator at the Yale Peabody Museum where she is overseeing the massive expansion of the museum. You can follow here work on Instagram @marudigi, twitter @marianadgiacomo, or on marianadigiacomo.com
In dinosaur news this week:
- The oldest centrosaurine ceratopsian, Menefeeceratops, was described from northwestern New Mexico
- In Lufeng, Yunnan Province in China, researchers recently found the skeleton of a three year old sauropodomorph dinosaur
- Headless Henry the Triceratops is being 3D printed for a display planned for June at the Missouri Institute of Natural Science
- There is a new, 100% virtual Museum of the Patagonian Desert of Añelo
- The dinosaur mascot Arky the Acrocanthosaurus at the Witte Museum in San Antonio, TX recently got “vaccinated”
- In Kalamazoo, Western Michigan University has a free dinosaur park on campus
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables, Florida has a new exhibit, Jurassic Garden: A Prehistoric Adventure
- In Champlin, Minnesota there’s a Sinclair gas station known for its Dino the Dinosaur that has over 100 different costumes
- K-pop group NCT Dream and the people who made the kids song Baby Shark made a dinosaur song called Dinosaurs A to Z
- The show Rugrats is getting a reboot and the trailer features a T. rex chasing them Jurassic Park style
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| 0:40.9 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. |
| 0:41.5 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:42.2 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:56.2 | And today in our 338th episode, we have a bunch of news, including a new seratopsian from New Mexico, which is the oldest of its group, but it's kind of a specific group. So the more interesting thing is just the details of the new species. We also have an interview with Mariana |
| 1:02.2 | Di Giacomo, who is the Natural History Conservator at the Yale Peabody Museum, which is undergoing |
| 1:08.3 | some huge renovations, which is mostly what we talk about. |
| 1:12.1 | Mm-hmm. I'm excited to see it someday. Yeah, including like some really cool new mounts for their |
| 1:16.6 | dinosaurs and stuff. It's going to be great. And we have Dinosaur of the Day, Cediosaurus, because |
| 1:23.0 | Sabrina can't go an episode without a sauropod. Somebody requested that one. |
| 1:28.3 | That's true. |
| 1:30.5 | There have been a lot of sauropod requests. |
| 1:33.4 | I can't help if a lot of people want to hear about the sauropods. |
| 1:33.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.7 | You also requested a sorapod for this episode, but I didn't have access to the paper. |
| 1:39.9 | So that's not in here yet. |
| 1:50.1 | And then I also just want to mention happy World metrology day of course may 20th the anniversary of the meter convention from 1875 which is an important day because meters are great as well as all |
| 1:57.8 | the other SI units they make all the engineering and science much easier |
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