I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

New track sites, swim tracks, and mating dance arenas around the world tell us about the behavior of theropods, ceratopsians, and sauropods. Plus David Spira joins from Room Escape Artist to share his favorite dinosaur themed escape rooms.
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Dinosaur of the day Segnosaurus, a therizinosaur with interesting teeth.
Interview with David Spira, co-creator of RoomEscapeArtist.com, which publishes well-researched, rational, and reasonably humorous escape room reviews, design tips, player tips, and industry commentary
In dinosaur news this week:
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In Bolivia, there are almost 18,000 theropod dinosaur tracks that show evidence of running, sauntering, and swimming
An earlier study of the Carreras Pampa site also found that the theropods feet sunk in the mud
One set of footprints shows the fastest running theropod trackway in the Cretaceous
Scientists re-examined the longest known theropod trackway in China
Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado, has the largest known dinosaur mating dance arena
Tracks from 76 million years ago may show that ceratopsians and ankylosaurs hung out together
Paleontologists found a set of sauropod tracks that show it made a loop
Scientists found multiple trackways in Oxfordshire, England, from mostly sauropods walking at a steady pace
Theropod footprints were found in a crisscross pattern in Texas, U.S.
Thousands of prosauropod footprints from the Triassic were found in a national park in Italy

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Robert (Bob) Nicholls has been painting, sculpting, and painting some of our favorite paleoart for decades. He joins us to share how he does it. Plus, a fossil found hundreds of feet below a natural history museum; The world's oldest cerapodan dinosaur; And new theropod and iguanodontian fossils
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Dinosaur of the day Emausaurus, a very early armored dinosaur to rival Scutellosaurus and Scelidosaurus.
Interview with Bob Nicholls, world-renowned paleoartist, painter, sculptor, and illustrator. His work has been published in more than 40 books (including the Secret Lives of Dinosaurs) and exhibited in nearly 50 museums, universities, and attractions around the world. He’s also appeared on a number of shows and he designed coins for the Royal Mint. Follow him @BobNichollsart
In dinosaur news this week:
Paleontologists found the world’s oldest cerapodan dinosaur in Morocco
Scientists found a dinosaur bone underneath the parking lot of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
New theropods have been found at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site in Utah, U.S.
There’s a new large iguanodontian dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic in what is now Portugal

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Two new dinosaurs from the middle of the Triassic: the theropod Anteavis and the sauropodomorph Huayracursor. Plus our reviews of several TV shows, movies, and books including Walking with Dinosaurs.
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Dinosaur of the day Ornithopsis, a titanosaur found way back in the 1830s which was named for its bone's similarity to the lightweight structure of a bird's skeleton.
In dinosaur news this week:
We not yet have found the earliest dinosaur fossils, but they may be in the Amazon and areas by the equator in South America and Africa
Dinosaurs may have originated in South America, and then moved simultaneously to the east and north
There’s a new very early theropod dinosaur, Anteavis crurilongus
A nearly complete skeleton from a Triassic sauropodomorph, Huayracursor jaguensis

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Spicomellus, Nanotyrannus, and tons of other fantastic new discoveries!
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Dinosaur of the day Garudimimus, an ornithomimosaur that wasn't that fast.
In dinosaur news this week:
Smallest find to make a big impact: Ahvaytum (ep 531)
HM: Archaeocursor (ep 533)
HM: Itaguyra (ep 545)
HM: Maleriraptor (ep 550)
HM: Taleta (ep 553)
Most surprising new dinosaur: Nanotyrannus lethaeus (ep 554)
Best new therizinosaur: Duonychus (ep 535)
Best new pachycephalosaur: Zavacephale (ep 553)
HM: Brontotholus (ep 553)
Best new ornithomimid: Mexidracon (ep 551)
Best new basal neornithischian: Pulaosaurus (DD 7)
Best new ankylosaurid genus: Huaxiazhoulong (ep 530)
Best new dromaeosaur: Shri rapax (DD8)
Best new compsognathid*: Huadanosaurus (ep 541)
Best new iguanodontian: Istiorachis (ep 548)
Best new megaraptor: Joaquinraptor (ep 552)
Best new basal sauropodomorph: Xingxiulong yueorum (ep 549)
HM: Lishulong (ep 539)
Best new enantiornithine: Navaornis (ep 533)
New genus hiding for the longest in plain sight: Newtonsaurus (DD8)
HM: Tameryraptor (ep 534)
Best new basal allosauroid: Yuanmouraptor (ep 536)
Best new oviraptorosaur: Yuanyanglong (ep 532)

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Two separate groups of researchers have independently confirmed that Nanotyrannus is its own genus and not just a juvenile T. rex. Plus a new Nanotyrannus species and another new tyrannosauroid and tyrannosaur injuries.
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Dinosaur of the day Calamosaurus, a small theropod that’s been mixed up with lots of other theropods.
In dinosaur news this week:
A new complete Nanotyrannus skeleton confirms that it deserves its own genus and is not just a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex
A close analysis of the small throat (hyoid) bone from the Nanotyrannus holotype confirms it was nearly full-sized
Review of the taxonomic history of Nanotyrannus
There’s a new Late Cretaceous tyrannosauroid, Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, related to the fluffy Yutyrannus
Scotty the T. rex appears to have blood vessel structures in a rib showing how it healed. (in the fun fact)
Companies are claiming to make luxury fashion items out of T. rex leather but that’s not currently possible. (in the fun fact)

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