I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

Riley, one of our favorite dinosaur writers, returns to discuss her latest book and lots of other dinosaur topics. Plus a new ceratopsian—Ferenceratops. And a new Dino Duels Championship.
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Dinosaur of the day Quaesitosaurus, a titanosaur with a skull similar to Diplodocus.
Interview with Riley Black, an award-winning science writer whose work has appeared in National Geographic, Scientific American, Nature, Smithsonian, and more. She has written a number of books, including “The Last Days of the Dinosaurs,” “When the Earth was Green,” and most recently “The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs”. Follow her on Bluesky @restingdinoface
In dinosaur news this week:
There’s a new ceratopsian dinosaur, Ferenceratops shqiperorum
Dinosaurs were “ecosystem engineers” that shaped their landscapes while they were alive—and after they died out
A study of New Mexican dinosaurs supports that they were still thriving before the Cretaceous-ending asteroid hit the Earth
Our dino duels are going again! Create your bracket here: bit.ly/dinoduelsbracket
Then enter your picks for a chance to win a year of Triceratops-level patreon membership at bit.ly/dinoduelspicks
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Five new sauropods from all across the world and the sauropod family tree. Plus new embryos and hatchlings, sauropod speed estimates, and much much more.
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Dinosaur of the day Cetiosauriscus, a sauropod that isn't Cetiosaurus, but was also from Middle Jurassic of England.
In dinosaur news this week:
Sauropod experts wrote an introduction to Diplodocoidea
There’s a new titanosaur sauropod, Utetitan zellaguymondeweyae
A new Alamosaurus fossil was found
There’s a new dicraeosaurid sauropod, Athenar bermani
There’s a new titanosaur sauropod, Yeneen houssayi
There’s a new eusauropod sauropod, Jinchuanloong niedu
There’s a new species of the sauropod Mamenchisaurus, Mamenchisaurus sanjiangensis
Some sauropods chose to lay eggs surrounded by fast moving waters, possibly to protect them from predators
New Massospondylus embryos and hatchling show how they started on all fours before growing up and walking on two legs
Large sauropods may have had max speeds of 6 mph (10 km/h)
A nearly complete Plateosaurus tail shows this sauropodomorph could do damage with its tail

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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:
The Science Museum of Minnesota closed for a day in response to the local ICE presence. If you want to support Minnesotans go to www.standwithminnesota.com/
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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