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Dinosaur fossils that fit on the head of a pin

Dinosaur fossils that fit on the head of a pin

FromI Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast


Dinosaur fossils that fit on the head of a pin

FromI Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
Nov 13, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Dinosaur of the day Chingkankousaurus, a possible tyrannosauroid from eastern China known only from a shoulder blade. Interview with Phoebe Wood, a primary student from Adelaide, South Australia. She won several awards for her Anchiornis huxleyi model. Including Young Scientist of the Year 2019 and the Oliphant Trophy—a first for a primary school student. Get our new book 50 Dinosaur Tales at: bit.ly/50dinosaurtales In dinosaur news this week: News from the final day of talks and posters at the 2019 meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology A large varied selection of dinosaur microfossils from the Alaskan Kakanaut Formation show that dinosaurs lived in the arctic year-round After more restoration work, an alternative Allosaurus holotype is ready to be named Siats and Moros finds show that Allosauroids and Tyrannosauroids coexisted in the cretaceous We now have an excellent growth series of over 20 Sinornithomimus individuals from China A coprolite “nugget” shows excellent preservation of at least two feather types and likely multiple ticks More evidence shows that dinosaur diversity was very high up until the end-cretaceous extinction By comparing LAGs in arm and leg bones, another study shows that Maiasaura was quadrupedal its whole life A new Jurassic ankylosaur was found in Portugal Two new ceratopsians were discovered in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument A new "Super matrix" of crocodilians places some difficult taxa in a cladogram An analysis of Dimetrodon (not a dinosaur) and its relatives shows the wide range of sizes that they came in The Tate Geological Museum have found a couple of sauropod feet and a diplodocid skull The Burke Museum in Washington has a new exhibit called Fossils Uncovered A new animation shows how long dinosaurs lived, by tracing our solar system’s movement through the Milky Way Galaxy Horse Archer Productions has a new web series, A Million Bones of Stone, the first episode is about Laelaps Justice Smith and Daniella Pineda, who played Franklin and Zia, in Fallen Kingdom will be back for Jurassic World 3 To get access to lots of patron only content check out https://www.patreon.com/iknowdino For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Chingkankousaurus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Chingkankousaurus-Episode-259/
Released:
Nov 13, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

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