Podcasts about Mesozoic

A very special occasion (a potentially good dinosaur movie) requires very special company, which is why on today's show, Sean is joined by Chris Ryan and Mallory Rubin to discuss David Robert Mitchell's ‘The End of Oak Street.' Before transporting back to the Mesozoic era, they cover Mallory's trip to D23 and react to myriad announcements, most crucially the casting for the upcoming X-Men movie. Then, they briefly discuss ‘The Last House' (a film they found utterly dreadful) before diving into ‘The End of Oak Street' (a film they found wildly entertaining and incredibly fascinating). Later, they each provide their top five favorite ‘Twilight Zone' movies. Finally, Sean is joined by actor Will Poulter to discuss his new film, ‘Union County,' and why he's pushing himself out of his comfort zone with roles that scare him. (0:00) Intro (1:07) CR and Mal join the show! (4:28) X-Men casting announcements (21:12) ‘Avengers: Doomsday' trailer reaction (27:42) Mal's ‘Starfighter' trailer reaction (31:47) Other D23 announcements (38:14) ‘The Last House' (48:05) ‘The End of Oak Street' (1:17:16) The top five 'Twilight Zone' movies (1:45:27) Will Poulter joins the show! (2:26:45) End-of-show outro Host: Sean Fennessey Guests: Will Poulter, Chris Ryan, and Mallory Rubin Producer: Jack Sanders Production Support: Lucas Cavanagh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For a few terrifying hours in the summer of 1955, two Kentucky families emptied their guns into small, glowing creatures that swarmed their farmhouse and simply would not die — and to this day, no one agrees on whether they fought off aliens, owls, or something the mind conjured out of the dark.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/kellyhopkinsvilleREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p86wb4mFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: It's considered one of the most bizarre and convincing extraterrestrial events ever reported… we'll look at the alien encounter in 1955's Hopkinsville, Kentucky that was experienced by two terrified families. (The Hopkinsville Encounter) *** In the deep jungles of the Congo, natives tell of a giant creature that, once described, sounds exactly like a long-necked dinosaur. But how could this be? And is it pure legend? Perhaps not, as one noted biologist from the area saw it with his own eyes and reported it. We'll look at the supposed real sighting of Mokele-Mbembe, the living dinosaur of the Congo! (Dinosaur Observed In The Congo) *** Running a club during prohibition was extremely lucrative… and extremely dangerous, as one Theodore Lakoff would've learned… had he been awake when he was murdered. (The Mysterious Death of Theodore Lakoff) *** Benjamin Franklin was known not just as one of the father's of the United States of America, but also as an inventor, a womanizer, and a man with a bit of an ornery streak in him – as is evidenced by a series of letters he wrote to the New England Courant, where he pretended to be a woman. (Who Was Mrs. Silence Dogood?) *** The internet is a vital part of modern life. Without web access, all kinds of businesses and jobs would be unable to function. So, as you can imagine, there are plenty of people who would love to see the internet crumble. And many have tried. (Taking Down The World Wide Web) *** In 1983 sightings poured in from people on the California coast who claim they saw a sea monster. (The California Sea Monster)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:01:10.244 = Show Open00:03:40.994 = The Hopkinsville Encounter00:13:15.837 = Dinosaur Observed in the Congo ***00:27:07.561 = Taking Down The World Wide Web ***00:36:42.752 = The Mysterious Death of Theodor Lakoff00:43:15.319 = Who Was Mrs. Silence Dogood?00:49:11.286 = The California Sea Monster00:55:29.517 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“The Hopkinsville Encounter” by Hannah Collins for Ranker.com's Graveyard Shift:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yp8pnfx7“Dinosaur Observed in the Congo” by Richard Greenwell for the ISC Newsletter: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc3r3mpp“The Mysterious Death of Theodore Lakoff” by Kathi Kresol for HauntedRockford.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ku5x3cat“Who Was Mrs. Silence Dogood?” by Bipin Dimri for HistoricMysteries.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p868eac“Taking Down the World Wide Web” by Benjamin Thomas for ListVerse.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/c85j5cau“The California Sea Monster” by Malcom Smith for Malcom's Cryptids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc2wts7h(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: December, 2021Weird Darkness pulls together a farmhouse siege by little gray creatures in Kentucky, a biologist's claimed sighting of a living dinosaur in the Congo, decades of attempts to knock the internet offline, an unsolved Prohibition murder in Illinois, a teenage Benjamin Franklin's literary hoax, and a hundred-foot sea serpent sighted off the California coast.It opens on August 21, 1955, when Billy Ray Taylor stepped out to the well at Glennie Lankford's farmhouse in Kelly, outside Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and watched a bright object drop behind the trees. Two families spent the night barricaded indoors, firing a 12-gauge shotgun and a .22 rifle at short gray creatures with spindly legs and glowing eyes that peered through windows and swiped at Taylor from the roof, yet the buckshot rang off them like sheet metal before they floated away unharmed. Skeptics later blamed an aggressive great horned owl or a green glow of bioluminescent foxfire, while the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book dismissed the case as a hoax and filed it under C.P., for crackpot.From there the episode reaches the Likouala swamps of the People's Republic of the Congo, where in 1983 biologist Marcellin Agnagna became the first trained scientist to claim he had seen Mokele-Mbembe, the long-necked animal described as a surviving dinosaur for over two centuries. At remote Lake Télé on May 1, 1983, he watched a creature with a long neck, small head, and broad back rising some fifteen feet above the water, judged it a Mesozoic sauropod, and waded out to film it — only to find he had left the lens cap on, and his last roll of film later developed black.Next comes a survey of attempts to knock the internet offline since Tim Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web. A man named Liu in Weifang, China tore apart four China Telecom junction boxes in 2016 to bury footage of himself joining a public "granny dance," while the Mirai botnet's 2016 assault on the firm Dyn took down Twitter, Netflix, and CNN, and Cornell student Robert Tappan Morris had loosed the first such attack by accident in 1988. It ends on Seth Aaron Pendley, a Texas man arrested in 2021 for plotting to blow up a Virginia data center with C-4 in hopes of crippling most of the web.The show then drops back to January 1931, when roadhouse owner Theodore Lakoff was shot once through the top of the head as he slept in his own Rockford, Illinois resort, a Prohibition den of liquor, gambling, and women he ran under the alias Tony Evanoff. His wallet lay emptied while far more cash sat untouched, and suspicion fell on twenty-year-old Viola Hunsficker, said to be extorting him, until ballistics cleared the pistol found in her apartment. Investigators then turned up five other women who each believed she was his only sweetheart, and the killing was never solved.Then it reaches back to 1722 Boston, where a witty widow named Silence Dogood published letters in the New England Courant skewering religious hypocrisy, Harvard, and fashion, charming readers so thoroughly that several men wrote in offering to marry her. She was the invention of sixteen-year-old Benjamin Franklin, an apprentice in his brother James's print shop who slipped the letters under the door at night for six months before revealing himself, then carried his taste for hoaxes to Philadelphia and a fabricated 1730 account of a Mount Holly witch trial.The episode closes off the California coast, where on October 31, 1983 a highway crew above Stinson Beach watched a dark, slender animal roughly a hundred feet long swim toward shore, trailed by about a hundred birds and two dozen sea lions. Crew member Matt Ratto described three humps rising straight from the water before a head lifted to look around, and days later, near Costa Mesa, a surfer named Young Hutchinson reported a long black eel-like animal with no dorsal fins surfacing ten feet from his board — though a Caltech spokesman offered that the witnesses might have seen a whale or a line of porpoises.

Beginning with primitive Cynodonts in the late Permian, we our evolutionary development through Mesozoic mammaliaforms, the divergence of monotremes from marsupials and placentals, and culiminating in the emergence of primates in the early Cenozoic. Along the way we discuss the emergence of important traits such as the mammalian ear and various primate adaptations for arboreal life. We then discuss the sequence of hominin species in the lead up to to humans, including Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, Homo erectus, and Neanderthals. We conclude with an analysis of the emergence of distinctive human traits, including bipedalism, encephalisation, and extensive tool use. Recommended pre-listening is Episode 161: Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Reptiles. If you enjoyed the podcast please consider supporting the show by making a PayPal donation or becoming a Patreon supporter. https://www.patreon.com/jamesfodor https://www.paypal.me/ScienceofEverything

The gang discusses two papers about fossil cephalopods. The first paper uses new methods to reassess the taxonomy of what was previously considered to be the oldest octopod, and the second paper uses preserved beaks to reconstruct large body sizes of Mesozoic octopods. Meanwhile, Amanda keeps it within Michigan, James brings up THE cephalopod talk, and Curt ascends.   Up-Goer Five (Curt Edition): Our friends talk about two papers that look at animals with many arms and a sharp mouth. The first paper looks at some parts of a very old animal with many arms. People thought that it might be an animal with many arms that does not have a hard home to live inside and carry around with it. But this paper looks over that animal and finds that the animal is an animal that lived in a hard home that it carried, but after it died it fell out of that home when it started to fall to pieces. The second paper looks at another animal with many arms and uses the size of the mouth to see how big the animal was. They find that these animals with many arms were very very big. They also say that this means they were really sharp which the friends talk about a lot.   References: Clements, Thomas, et al. "Synchrotron data reveal nautiloid characters in Pohlsepia mazonensis, refuting a Palaeozoic origin for octobrachians." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 293.2068 (2026). Ikegami, Shin, et al. "Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans." Science 392.6796 (2026): 406-410.

Dr. Steve Brusatte is a palentologist, author, consultant, professor, and much more - he wears so many hats!  But communicating science is at the center to all he does.  He joined us to talk about his latest work, The Story of Birds, a fascinating book exploring the history of birds from their dinosaur origins.Start of interview: 10:20Show NotesNaturalist Journeys Go Birding with Hannah and ErikTufted Puffin WalkseBird Big Day; GoBirdingTeamThe Story of Birds by Dr. Steve BrusatteTu Hands CreationsRio Grande Valley Birding FestivalBirding the BorderIntro Bird Call: Yellow-crowned Gonolek (recorded Senegal, December 2023)Outro Bird Call: Plain Chachalaca (recorded Texas, April 2025)Didn't explain bird calls in recording, but Yellow-crowned Gonolek to me makes me think of what an ancient Mesozoic bird song might sound like and the outro of a Plain Chachalaca is of one of the birds that seems to be most raptor like, living in packs, extremely curious, kind of awkward, etc.Support the showConnect with us at...IG: @Hannahgoesbirding and @ErikgoesbirdingFacebook: @HannahandErikGoBirdingEmail us at HannahandErikGoBirding@gmail.comWebsite: http://www.gobirdingpodcast.comVenmo: @hannahanderikgobirdingGet a discount at Buteo Books using code: BIRDNERDBOOKCLUB

Hey, dino enthusiasts! Get ready to have your mind blown because we're diving into a video about the most underrated dinosaurs no one talks about!

The Fact Fly's One Big Question Why were so many dinosaurs gigantic — towering, thundering, and larger than almost any animals alive today? Join Lauren and the ever-curious Fact Fly as they dig into the real science behind dino size! From ancient oxygen levels to super-strong dinosaur bones, powerful muscles, and warm Mesozoic climates, this episode uncovers the surprising reasons some dinos grew to enormous proportions. With fun facts, humor, and kid-friendly explanations, you'll discover what made giants like Argentinosaurus and Patagotitan so massive — and why animals today don't get quite that big. Perfect for young paleontologists, dino fans, and anyone who loves science-packed adventures!

Join me as I explore Fernbank Museum of Natural History—one of the Southeast's most iconic science and dinosaur destinations!

Your Charmosaurs crew is here again with a cool new episode. This month, we're discussing the works of the late, great Brian Franczak as it appears in The National Audubon Pocket Guide: Dinosaurs. Rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? Mark, Natee and Gemma discuss the merits of an unfairly forgotten palaeo master of the ninetes. Then, old familiar voices Steve White and Darren Naish come on the show to discuss their new palaeoart compendium, Mesozoic Art II. Who is the ninetiesest palaeoartist? How excited are we about the new Prehistoric Planet? Has Gemma been spoiled on rubber dinosaurs? Is there such a thing as dinosaur-themed spirituality? And has anyone outside of the UK ever heard of Gorgo? All shall be revealed in episode 44!   Show Notes At Chasmosaurs!

Think you can run a better park? Prove it!Back in 1993, Tom was convinced he could succeed where John Hammond had failed. Fortunately, the Xbox Game Pass "Surprise Me" button has seen fit to give our hosts an opportunity to test that theory with this dinosaur theme park management simulator developed and published by Frontier Developments. The studio is no stranger to the genre and this isn't even their first rodeo with the beloved license, so the odds of a successful sim seem squarely in their favor. Will they deliver on entertainment as promised or will a familiar sense of hubris prove the undoing of this story as well? Join our hosts as they roll up their sleeves to operate their own Mesozoic zoos and see if things will run smoothly or if life will find a way... to create chaos!What do you think? Let us know!Hit us up on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tc1h1dOr on Threads at https://www.threads.net/@tc1h1dDrop us an email at tc.1h1d(at)outlook[dot]comFollow us on Goodpods @1h1dCheck out our fancy site: https://quitthebuild.com/1h1dWatch the video: https://bit.ly/1H1DYTThanks for taking this ride with us :-)

Will Botronic finally be defeated? Find out in Part 2 of the Season Finale, where Henry finds some more of his old friends to prepare for the conquest!

Long time listener and second time guest Darren Naish joins us to talk about marine reptiles. While Darren is best known for his work on dinosaurs and pterosaurs, he has fingers in a huge number of vertebrate pies, and he has a new edition out of his book on all of the Mesozoic monsters that lived in the sea. So, strap in for an incredibly being tour of mosasaurs, mesosaurs, placodonts, ichthyosaurs, plesionsaurs, thalattosaurs, thalattosuchians and we even manage to sneak in a reference to certain allegedly semi-aquatic large theropods.   Support us on www.patreon.com/terriblelizards   Check out iszi's NEW podcast about Egyptology www.talklikeanegyptian.com   A link to Darren's Home page which combines links to the blog, podcast, con and other resources. https://tetzoo.com/   A link to Darren's post on the launch of the first edition: https://tetzoo.com/blog/2023/2/27/ancient-sea-reptiles-is-out-now   A link to the Natural History Museum shop for the book: https://www.nhmshop.co.uk/ancient-sea-reptiles-plesiosaurs-ichthyosaurs-mosasaurs-more.html?srsltid=AfmBOorc2zt792sWSVYdef8-O5zKci9w2Fiu6FhLlpX_lEATiWy1Gsn0

"...I felt something watching from the stone itself..."CREEPYPASTA► "Etched in stone" written by Mesozoic_God, narrated by ClancyPasta► https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1n7blwq/etched_in_stone/Here are ways to support the channel if you wish ~MERCH ► http://teespring.com/stores/clancypastastorePATREON ► https://patreon.com/clancypastaMEMBERSHIP ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnfg9w5hrnPT7oA1H3uRZEQ/joinHere's where you can find me, and also links to the audio version of the show ~X / TWITTER ► http://x.com/clancypastaINSTA ► https://instagram.com/clancypastaSPOTIFY ► https://open.spotify.com/show/51DHHPsFnEvDAGfRiZPMF7ANCHOR.FM ► https://anchor.fm/clancypastaMUSIC► Background music is original and done in house by my best friend and house audio designer SKEEVY WEEVIL#Creepypasta #scarystories #horrorstories

We are back! Well, sort of. Aaron is in the cupboard studio, and Gareth is out and about. But fear not, our regular format is back - as Gareth takes us on a journey to the Mesozoic to meet the spiral shelled superstars that are the Ammonites. Meanwhile, back in the Cupboard, Aaron answers the mailbag which has built up a bit over the summer. The cupboard is back open, so come on in!

Join us as we explore the towering history of ancient mountain ranges, delve into the mysteries of the Appalachian Mountains, and break down the geological story behind the Gettysburg region. From the immense rift basins on the East Coast to the intricate details of the Allegheny Orogeny, this episode promises a thrilling ride through Earth's dynamic layers. Get ready to rock with some punny sediment tales and discover how past geological events shaped the terrain we see today! The Birdsboro basin may represent the larger Mesozoic rift basin that we only get small glimpses of today! Download the CampGeo app now at this link. On the app you can get tons of free content, exclusive images, and access to our Geology of National Parks series. You can also learn the basics of geology at the college level in our FREE CampGeo content series - get learning now!Like, Subscribe, and leave us a Rating!——————————————————Instagram: @planetgeocastTwitter: @planetgeocastFacebook: @planetgeocastSupport us: https://planetgeocast.com/support-usEmail: planetgeocast@gmail.comWebsite: https://planetgeocast.com/

Dave McArthur and Clint Lanier discuss the original Jurassic Park film. Listen to this one before you go see the Seventh installment this summer!

Here's a full recap of **Prehistoric Live**, which took place on **July 18 & 19, 2025**! It was a fun two-day virtual event where we got to hear from six awesome speakers, each sharing their knowledge and passion for paleontology.We covered everything from fossil collecting and dinosaur discoveries to paleoart and science education. Whether you're super into dinosaurs or just curious about prehistoric life, there was something for everyone.

The gang continues “Wet Hot Archosaur Summer” with a discussion about pterosaur trace fossils. The first paper tests a method for assigning pterosaur traces to potential trace makers, and the second paper is a case study of actually assigning traces to a species. Meanwhile, Amanda herds cats (figuratively and literally), James can only accomplish three things, Curt keeps it light, and everyone upholds their “journalistic integrity”.   Up-Goer Five (Curt Edition): The friends talk about two papers that look at the marks that animals leave on the ground. These marks are made by animals that fly from a long time ago and are no longer around today. The first paper is asking if we can look at these marks and try to better figure out what kinds of these animals could have made those marks. They do a lot of work to look at the marks and some parts of these animals that we have that are really good in order to see if there are parts of the animal that would also be the same as these marks, and then they use numbers like how long these parts are on the marks and the animal parts are to try and see if we can put the marks into groups of animals. They find that maybe we can, and that there are some places where it might be best to see how well this works. The second paper is one of those places where we can go see if this thing the first paper did works. They have these marks and there are two different types of marks. This place also has parts from two different groups of these animals, and those animals are in the same beds so they can be pretty sure that the animals were in the same spot as the marks at around the same time. They look at the numbers and how these marks look and they are able to point to each of these marks and say which of the two animals they have would have made those marks.   References: Smyth, Robert SH, et al. "Identifying pterosaur trackmakers provides critical insights into mid-Mesozoic ground invasion." Current Biology 35.10 (2025): 2337-2353. Li, Yang, et al. "First deciphering of large pterosaur footprints and their trackmaker in the Junggar Basin, China." Cretaceous Research 167 (2025): 106036.

Weird Wednesday brings us a strange evolutionary discovery, the world's largest dog meets the world's smallest (and it's hard not to smile), plus 'Seagull Boy' returns to defend his championship. On This Day in History, we look back at the world's first integrated circuit. The surprising evolution of the platypus and echidna, the weirdest animals on Earth | CNN -  In rare evolutionary event, weird platypus cousin evolved from living in water to living on land | Live Science Bone microstructure supports a Mesozoic origin for a semiaquatic burrowing lifestyle in monotremes (Mammalia) | PNAS A 3-foot difference didn't stop a horse-size Great Dane and tiny chihuahua from becoming friends | AP News Watch: World's tallest and shortest dogs have puppy playdate in Idaho - UPI.com Watch: British 'Seagull Boy' wins second consecutive gull screeching championship - UPI.com https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/cy0y47zved2o Contact the show: coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Tuesday Wire... For Dear Science this week, our expert, Doctor Cushla McGoverin chatted with us about the Red Princess of the Silk Road, the colours of Mesozoic animals, and how life might have originally formed on planet earth.  In our weekly catchup with the National Party's Tom Rutherford, Wire host Castor about continued issues with the school lunch program and the National Party's refusal to back a bill that would criminalise wage theft by employers. Producer Amani spoke with General Manager of Kickback, Aaron Hendry on why it is calling for an urgent review of the Ministry of Social Development. They also talked to University of Auckland Senior Research Fellow Dr Helen Murray about new research which has led to a breakthrough in understanding chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

This week on Dear Science our expert Doctor Cushla McGoverin, we chatted about the Red Princess of the Silk Road, the colours of Mesozoic mammals, and how life formed on planet Earth.  Thanks to MOTAT, the museum inspiring the innovators of tomorrow!

In today's episode, we present DINO DNA with Conor O'Keeffe! This one is about Dimetrodon and Lystrosaurus from Dominion with paleontologist, Caroline Abbott. This one is super interesting as these are both non-dinosaurs from the Permian era, that pre-date the Mesozoic! Find Caroline on Bluesky and Instagram. Sit back, relax and ENJOY this episode of The Jurassic Park Podcast!Please check out my Newsletter featured on Substack! You can sign up for the newsletter featuring the latest from Jurassic Park Podcast and other shows I'm featured on - plus other thoughts and feelings towards film, theme parks and more!FOLLOW USWebsite: https://www.jurassicparkpodcast.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JurassicParkPodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/jurassicparkpodcast/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jurassicparkpod.bsky.socialThreads: https://www.threads.net/@jurassicparkpodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jurassicparkpodcastApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2VAITXfSpotify:  https://spoti.fi/2Gfl41TDon't forget to give our voicemail line a call at 732-825-7763!Catch us on YouTube with Wednesday night LIVE STREAMS, Toy Hunts, Toy Unboxing and Reviews, Theme Park trips, Jurassic Discussion, Analysis and so much more.

A huge year for stegosaurs and theropods!For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Yinlong, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Yinlong-Episode-523/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Yinlong, one of the earliest known ceratopsians.Our top stories of 2024:Best new tyrannosaur: AsiatyrannusBest new tyrannosaur (runner up): Tyrannosaurus mcraeensisBest new titanosaur: BustingorrytitanBest new titanosaur (runner up): QunkasauraBest new ankylosaur: DataiBest new abelisaur: KolekenBest new ceratopsian: LokiceratopsBest new (maybe) burrowing dinosaur: FonaBest new ornithopod (most complete found in UK in 100 years): ComptonatusBest new theropod brow: AlpkarakushBest sauropod vertebra (and best rebbachisaurid): SidersauraBest new rebbachisaurid (runner up): CampananeyenBest noasaurid theropod: KiyacursorBest new caenagnathid: EoneophronBest new sleeping dinosaur: HypnovenatorMost basal rhabdodontomorph ornithopod: EmiliasauraBest new silesaurid: GondwanaxMost expanded dinosaur group: Stegosauria. Including: Thyreosaurus, Baiyinosaurus, Angustungui, & YanbeilongCoolest discovery story: MusankwaMost tenacious fossil: ArdetosaurusMost exciting new Mesozoic bird: ShuilingornisBest bird names: Avisaurus ("bird lizard") and Magnusavis ("big bird")Fastest name change: "Jingjia" renamed JingiellaGarret's favorite Dinosaur Connection Challenge: bubonic plagueBest paleopathology study: South American theropodsBest paleopathology study (runner up): PlateosaurusOldest known paleontology (maybe): 10,000 year old petroglyphsBest friendly sauropodomorph study: LufengosaurusBest new spinosaurid: RiojavenatrixSpinosaur diving and hunting/swimming updateSpinosaur skull shapesSpinosaurs had skull and teeth to go after large preyBest new tyrannosaur paper: Gorgosaurus gut contentsNanotyrannus updateT. rex intelligence estimation Our 2024 Holiday Gift Guide is available now! Find the perfect gift for the dinosaur enthusiast in your life (or yourself). This year's guide features real dinosaur teeth, a color your own dinosaur postcard book, dinosaur collectibles, toys, and more! Head to iknowdino.com/the-ultimate-dinosaur-holiday-gift-guide/ to see the full list of gift ideas.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tyrannosaurus rex was the ultimate predatory dinosaurs. But how did this massive carnivore get its food? In this podcast Dinosaur George will cover the multiple ways the "King of the Dinosaurs" could catch its food. 

We share all our thoughts on the most surprising and interesting parts of David Hone's new book: Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior. Plus a tiny dinosaur with a lot of gastroliths and some huge dinosaurs without any.For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Gasparinisaura, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Gasparinisaura-Episode-522/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Gasparinisaura, a small dinosaur, of which multiple specimens have been found with gastroliths. This episode is brought to you by Princeton University Press. They have four brand new dinosaur books: The Princeton Field Guide to Predatory Dinosaurs, Birds of the Mesozoic, The Little Book of Dinosaurs, and Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior. If you haven't already, get your copy of Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior at press.princeton.edu and use promo code PUP30 for 30% offSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's time for the most anticipated Prehistoric Cage Match to ever hit the Dinosaur Review for Kids podcast. The long & awaited arrival of the K-Pg Showdown is finally here. This ultimate rematch between the Tyrannosaurus Rex & the Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus is sure to inspire you to become a junior paleontologist or even a dinosaur ranger. Now sit back & enjoy this fang-tastic prehistoric campfire story. It's showtime!!

From digging up dinosaur bones to preparing fossils, Kelsie Abrams is involved with fossils from the field to the museum display. She also shares her unique perspective as a paleontologist with a background in archaeology.For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Uteodon, links from Kelsie Abrams, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Uteodon-Episode-521/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Uteodon, an iguanodontian from the Jurassic that was thought to be a species of Camptosaurus (and still is by some researchers).Interview with Kelsie Abrams, the paleontology fossil lab manager at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle, Washington. Follow her on Instagram @pinup_paleontologist This episode is brought to you by Princeton University Press. They have four brand new dinosaur books: The Princeton Field Guide to Predatory Dinosaurs, Birds of the Mesozoic, The Little Book of Dinosaurs, and Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior. On December 4, we'll be discussing Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior in depth as part of a special book club segment. Get your copy now and read along with us! Go to press.princeton.edu and use promo code PUP30 for 30% offSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Velociraptor (and Oviraptor & Saurornithoides) were named exactly 100 years ago to the day! We're celebrating Velociraptor's 100 year anniversary by going through what we now know about this awesome little dinosaur.For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Velociraptor, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Velociraptor-Episode-519/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Velociraptor, A small predatory dinosaur that had some of the most infamous weaponry of any prehistoric animal..In dinosaur news this week:It's November, which means it's Dinovember!On November 7, 1924 (almost exactly 100 years ago, Henry Fairfield Osborn named Velociraptor This episode is brought to you by Princeton University Press. They have four brand new dinosaur books: The Princeton Field Guide to Predatory Dinosaurs, Birds of the Mesozoic, The Little Book of Dinosaurs, and Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior. On December 4, we'll be discussing Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior in depth as part of a special book club segment. Get your copy now and read along with us! Go to press.princeton.edu and use promo code PUP30 for 30% offSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This episode is all about answering listener questions! Ranges from did non-avian dinosaurs live past the K-Pg in what's now New Zealand? Also how to survive the Mesozoic, would you go to a real life Jurassic Park, what dinosaurs would win "best in show", plus two dinosaur books that are great references.For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Albertadromeus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Albertadromeus-Episode-517/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Albertadromeus, a thescelosaurid that was the smallest known herbivorous dinosaur in its ecosystem.Our 2024 Holiday Gift Guide is available now! Find the perfect gift for the dinosaur enthusiast in your life (or yourself). This year's guide features real dinosaur teeth, a color your own dinosaur postcard book, dinosaur collectibles, toys, and more! Head to iknowdino.com/the-ultimate-dinosaur-holiday-gift-guide/ to see the full list of gift ideas.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The new silesaur Gondwanax was named from Southern Brazil and may show a transition between silesaurs and neornithischians; The new tyrannosaurid Labocania aguillonae helps solidify Labocania as a true tyrannosaurid; Plus a new huge Pachyrhinosaurus skull and a new Mesozoic swimming bird.For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Kwanasaurus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Kwanasaurus-Episode-515/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Kwanasaurus, a silesaur known for its teeth and jaws that seem like they were evolved for eating plants.In dinosaur news this week:A new, giant, Pachyrhinosaurus (ceratopsian) skull nicknamed “Big Sam” was found in Northern Alberta, CanadaThere's a new silesaur, Gondwanax paraisensis, from Southern BrazilThere's a new tyrannosaurid species, Labocania aguillonae, from Northern MexicoThere's a new euornithean bird, Shuilingornis angelai, is one of the earliest known birds with semi-aquatic features Our 2024 Holiday Gift Guide is available now! Find the perfect gift for the dinosaur enthusiast in your life (or yourself). This year's guide features real dinosaur teeth, a color your own dinosaur postcard book, dinosaur collectibles, toys, and more! Head to iknowdino.com/the-ultimate-dinosaur-holiday-gift-guide/ to see the full list of gift ideas.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The gang discusses two papers that look at two Lagerstätten (fossil localities of exceptional preservation). The first Lagerstätte is a unique complex early Triassic community found near the equator, and the second Lagerstätte is a collection of exceptional trace fossils from the Pennsylvanian. Meanwhile, James is convinced in the existence of a town that doesn't exist, Amanda takes an unexpected break, and Curt once again needs to be redacted.   Up-Goer Fiver: (Curt Edition) The friends talk about two papers that look at times when there was a lot of things in the rocks that we do not get in the rocks during most times, and these times can let us know that there were a lot more things were living at this time. The first paper talks about rocks during a time when usually there is not a lot going on because it was just after a time that most things died. Most rocks at this time do not show a lot of things living. These rocks are cool because they are just after the time almost everything died and they show the things that we know lived through that, and that they are all together in a way that looks like the groups of animals we see in rocks way later. The second paper looks at changes in rocks that are because animals move through or on the ground and that gets in the rocks. This area has a lot of these rocks with the bits of animals moving which lets us know a lot about what things were doing on land a long time ago.   References: Dai, Xu, et al. "A Mesozoic fossil lagerstätte from 250.8 million years ago shows a modern-type marine ecosystem." Science 379.6632 (2023): 567-572. Knecht, Richard J., et al. "Early Pennsylvanian Lagerstätte reveals a diverse ecosystem on a subhumid, alluvial fan." Nature Communications 15.1 (2024): 7876.

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(image source: https://www.deviantart.com/inkabg2/art/Ichthyotitan-severnensis-1049125055) Host Matthew Donald and guest co-host Allen Brooks discuss Ichthyotitan, the recently discovered big boy of the early Mesozoic seas that is up there with the biggest boys of all time, along with Perucetus and the modern blue whale. These weren't just boys. They were men. Whatever that means. Frick the patriarchy. From the Late Triassic, this 85-foot ichthyosaur was a voracious predator akin to an orca, meaning pretty much anything swimming about in this ocean was on the menu. Maybe every animal there should have just waddled onto land instead. Reenact the Devonian and crawl out of that dangerous sea. That's what I would've done, because I'm a coward. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Found in the fossil record between the Jurassic and the middle Miocene, Notosuchia was a highly diverse and strange group of crocodylomorphs, most notable for their terrestrial lifestyle. Joining us for today's episode is Dr Yohan Pochat-Cottilloux from the Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, who specialises in the study of crocodylomorphs. Together, we will explore the wide range of scientific methodologies that have so far been used to study the lives of these strange reptiles and discuss how they may have looked and behaved.

This week Erin and Brennan are picked up in a time machine captained by Walter Cronkite! Is it a time machine or a spaceship? Or a spaceship time machine?? Whatever it is, it's filled with BRAAAAINNNN GRAAAAAIIIINNN!!!!! A cereal that makes your brain grow, like, a lot! We meet Rex, Elsa, Woog, and Dweeb, dinosaurs (and a pterosaur) that are brought to the 90's to fulfill the wishes of children at The Museum of Natural History *wink* (new law, it must be said in the voice of Cronkite for all time). On the other hand, there is Professor Screweyes who sees our Mesozoic friends as monsters in his show of frights and fears. We talk zombies, Totoro, chainsaws, unreliable friends, and a murder of crows. To be honest though, there's nothing wrong with a horror circus, so we're not actually sure why Screweyes is considered bad. In a month we are calling June Gloom, this is one of our most uplifting and beautiful films from our childhoods. We'll rendez-vous, we'll rendez-vous.

Mex solves world conflict because even The Browns are scared of The Homies. The Artist then introduces the awkward, inquires about matching tents and encounters a Mesozoic beasty. 

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In this episode we are joined by Mesozoic, guild leader of Adventure Dogs, the top guild on the Mangler TLP server. He talks to us about his time on Fippy, Phinny, Vazaelle, Mangler and more during this massive 3+ hour long look at the history of Mangler. If you enjoy DramaQuest consider supporting us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/DramaQuest Watch me live at: https://www.twitch.tv/zaidegod Socials: https://linktr.ee/zaidefaceless --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dramaquest/message

This week I speak with Jingmai O'Connor (Staff Page | Instagram), Associate Curator of Fossil Reptiles (a.k.a. Priestess of Dead Dino-Birds) at The Field Museum in Chicago, about the magnificent strangeness of Mesozoic flying reptiles, the perverse anthropology of paleontologists, and much else. Contrary to expectations for a show with “fossils” in its title, I don't ordinarily interview people who actually dig up prehistoric creatures, but as I make perhaps too obvious in this enthusiastic get-to-know-each-other session, I still care deeply for the treasured mysteries that lie in store beneath our feet and love the people who devote their lives to studying the ancient biosphere — even if the system's crooked and we fight about as much as dinosaurs themselves.Here's to Jingmai and her singular life and mind! Do yourself a favor and acquire her book When Dinosaurs Conquered The Skies, truly a treat for all ages, and then if you want to leap like Microraptor into the thicket of her publications you can scope her work on Google Scholar.  (And shout out to her friends Rextooth, who do in fact make awesome dino comics.)✨ Support The Show:• Subscribe on Substack or Patreon for COPIOUS extras, including private Discord server channels and MANY secret episodes!• Make one-off donations at @futurefossils on Venmo, $manfredmacx on CashApp, or @michaelgarfield on PayPal.• Buy the music of Future Fossils (in this episode: “Olympus Mons” & “Sonnet A”) on Bandcamp.• Buy the books we discuss at the Future Fossils Bookshop.org page and I'll get a cut.• Browse and buy original paintings and prints or email me to commission new work!✨ PLUS! New Single & Music Video “Indecision” from The Age of ReunionListen on Bandcamp/Spotify or Watch on YouTube/Instagram.This one's a Jon-Brion-inspired riff on the phenomenology of near-death experiences and the neurophysiology of 5MEO-DMT, a quick trip up above the plane of normal waking life to see the panoply of possibility exfoliating from the Godhead in each moment. How do you choose your next life? (Trick question.)Join my small but gorgeous mob by preordering the entire album at Bandcamp (or subscribe on Substack/Patreon to have it all at once right now), and then go talk to integrate your experience with Daniel Shankin. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe

The gang discusses two papers that look at Mesozoic tracks that may or may not have been made by an avian archosaur. Meanwhile, Curt becomes activated, Amanda has to deal with harsh truths, James gets creative with taxon names, and everyone get distracted very quickly. (Editor's Note: If you want to just “get to the science” skip to 11 minutes in. We hadn't talked in 2 months and it shows. I just didn't have the heart to cut all of it)   Up-Goer Five (Curt Edition): The friends look at two papers that look at foot falls in the ground from a very very long time ago which may or may not be made by animals that can fly through the sky, or may have been made by big angry animals. The problem is that big angry animals and the animals that can fly are very close to each other, and their foot falls can look a lot like each other. The first paper looks at some very old foot falls and some of these foot falls do look like they were made by animals that can fly, but that would be very very strange because it would need a lot of other things to be true if that were true. They say that there was something moving like these animals today that can fly but were probably not those types of animals, but it shows how hard it can be to see if these foot falls were made by these animals that can fly. The second paper uses numbers to try and see if we can really see if some of these foot falls were made by animals that fly. What they find is that we have used how big these foot falls are as a reason why we think some are from big angry animals and some are from animals that can fly. This is maybe a problem because we know there are small big angry animals, and that today there are some big animals that are from the group that can fly. If you use numbers to take how big they are out of the running, it seem like some of these foot falls could be from big animals part of the group that can fly.   References: Abrahams, Miengah, and Emese M. Bordy. "The oldest fossil bird-like footprints from the upper Triassic of southern Africa." Plos one 18.11 (2023): e0293021. Hong, Sung-Yoon, et al. "The discovery  of Wupus agilis in South Korea and a new quantitative analysis of  intermediate ichnospecies between non-avian theropods and birds." Cretaceous Research 155 (2024): 105785.

It's been two centuries since the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, was named by William Buckland and to commemorate the date, the Natural History Museum hosted '200 Years of Dinosaurs: Their Rise, Fall, and Rebirth'. This international conference provides a snapshot of dinosaur research in 2024, demonstrating just how far our understanding of this group has come since 1824. In our coverage of this event, we speak to many of the leading palaeontologists in the field, as we look back over the last 200 years of research and consider what the next 200 might reveal.

The Middle Jurassic is incredibly important to our understanding of pterosaur evolution; however, the remarkable rarity and incompleteness of Middle Jurassic pterosaurs has long hampered scientific understanding of the lineage. Joining us this episode on the other side of the microphone is one of Palaeocast's own team members, Dr Liz Martin Silverstone, a Technical Specialist at the University of Bristol who has recently described Ceoptera evansae, a darwinopteran pterosaur from the Isle of Skye. Together, we explore the new specimen, how it fits in to the group, and the insights it can give us in to pterosaur evolution.

LOOP 5.1: It's episode 5 and Dave and Tom are pronouncing dinosaur names all wrong. Does any actually pronounce it “Deinonychus”? Dave reveals why Netflix chose Morgan Freeman as narrator over himself, Tom talks about the complexity of producing CGI feathers and we address T. rex controversies. Finally, we're served up a confusing ‘dinosaur sandwich' metaphor. Life On Our Planet (LOOP) is a new 8-part series created for Netflix by Silverback Films and Amblin Television. This Steven Spielberg produced series, narrated by Morgan Freeman, is hugely ambitious in its scope, telling the story of life throughout the whole Phanerozoic Eon. Ancient organisms and environments are painstakingly recreated by the supremely talented Industrial Light and Magic, whilst modern natural history scenes add vital context to the story. This show has been worked on for six years, during which time countless papers were read and around 150 different palaeontologists contributed their time and knowledge. The whole production had culture of letting the scientific rese arch dictate scenes, resulting in one of the most accurate on-screen representations of prehistoric life there has ever been. And how do we know all this? Well, our very own team members Tom Fletcher and Dave Marshall have been embedded within the LOOP team since day one! We are therefore in a totally unique position to reveal to you the work that went into this series, from both the production and research side of things. In this unofficial series, we've been granted exclusive access to many of the people responsible for creating LOOP, we explore what it takes to create a palaeontological documentary and we delve deeper into the science with some of the show's academic advisors. Each day, we will be releasing batches of interviews, each relating to a specific episode of LOOP. Image courtesy and copyright of Netflix.

Odd ideas in palaeontology Palaeontology as a scientific field is beyond popular in the media and with the public but that also means it draws a lot of attention from those with, let's call them, questionable ideas. And no group gets more of this stuff than the dinosaurs and the animals of the Mesozoic. This time out, Iszi and Dave discuss the world of paleo cranks, people with outlandish and non-scientific ideas who present them as fully formed research. Rarely does any of this make it into the mainstream, but on occasion it leaks in and this can only cause confusion. So sit back and enjoy, or grind your teeth in quiet and cold fury, as we go over some of the issues that come with unscientific ideas trying to make their way into the mainstream. Links: It's not just palaeontology that gets these people, here's a neat blog on a physics crank, but the central themes are identical: https://www.skepticblog.org/2012/01/09/cranks-and-physics/   A nice article by Mark Witton on how to spot crankery in palaeontology: http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-to-spot-palaeontological-crankery.html   Please do support the show on patreon.com/terriblelizards for extra content.

Earth's oceans change over time, not just in their size and shape, but also in the very dynamics of their ecosystems. The stage was set for modern ocean ecosystems by an event called the Mesozoic Marine Revolution, a dramatic restructuring of ecology in shallow seas that saw the rise of many forms of active predatory lifestyles. This episode, we discuss the fossil evidence, the major players, and the ongoing and sometimes contentious research into this crucial period. In the news: early arthropods, early apes, prehistoric ravens, and long-necked marine reptiles. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00 News: 00:07:00 Main discussion, Part 1: 00:35 :00 Main discussion, Part 2: 01:18:35 Patron question: 01:51:00 Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures: http://commondescentpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Got a topic you want to hear about? Submit your episode request here: https://commondescentpodcast.com/request-a-topic/ We're an Audible Affiliate Partner! Use this link for a 30-day free trial to Audible: https://www.audibletrial.com/CommonDescent Or make a one-time donation via PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/4c68u4hp Find merch at the Common Descent Store! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Join the Common Descent Discord server! https://discord.gg/CwPBxdh9Ev Follow and Support us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/commondescentpodcast/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ You can email us at commondescentpodcast(at)gmail.com Or send us physical mail at: The Common Descent Podcast 1735 W State of Franklin Rd. Ste 5 #165 Johnson City, TN 37604 The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org. Musical Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/  

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Caudipteryx, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Caudipteryx-Episode-458/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Caudipteryx, A peacock sized oviraptorosaur known for its tail fan of feathers and flightless-bird-like body.In dinosaur news this week:A new recreation of the color on Wulong's impressive feathersBeetles found in amber munching on cretaceous dinosaur feathers2004 paper about the first ever parasitic louse found in the fossil record (which was eating dinosaur feathers)Most (maybe all) modern birds molt at least once a year, but Mesozoic dinosaurs may have molted less frequently See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Fabiany Herrera is a paleobotanist specializing on a diverse array of time periods and paleofloras, including the Mazon Creek Flora from the Carboniferous when Lycopods were friggin' trees, as well as the utterly bizarre Jurassic and early Cretaceous Bennettitales & Corystospermaceae from the excellently preserved Mesozoic lignite of Mongolia.Many of the plants we talk about in this episode HAVE NO LIVING OR EXTANT RELATIVES - they represent fantastical lineages of plants whose base branches that simply got clipped off the tree of life either during mass extinctions events or gradually during climatic changes. Umaltolepis - a ginkgo relative - is an exception to this, but still an equally bizarre plant.This was a really fun conversation and it could've gone on much longer but we ran outta time. Hope you enjoy.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5634537/advertisement

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Sinornithomimus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Sinornithomimus-Episode-455/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Sinornithomimus, an ornithomimosaur that may have been one of the fastest dinosaurs in all of the Mesozoic.In dinosaur news this week:A new iguanodontian dinosaur, Oblitosaurus, whose name means "obsolete" or "forgotten" lizard; But its an important findThere's a new ceratopsid, Furcatoceratops elucidans, a close relative of Nasutoceratops that was already 10ft long at only 2 to 3 years oldListener Question: What was the fastest dinosaur?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We have a special bonus episode from Well…That's Interesting. Jill discusses the Carnian Pluvial Event that helped get dinosaurs on top of the food chain. And for our turtle fans, there's a segment about a giant turtle that lived in the Mesozoic.Check out this weekly comedy sciencey show and hear even more bizarre and interesting facts (like, can hair grow between your teeth? And could we ever lose our Moon?) at https://kite.link/WTISee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Claosaurus, links from Steve Brusatte, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Claosaurus-Episode-449/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Claosaurus, Hadrosauroid that lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Kansas, USA.Interview with Steve Brusatte, a paleontologist, paleontology advisor for Jurassic World, and author of a number of paleontology books. He's also the expert reviewer for a new National Geographic Kids book by Stephanie Warren Drimmer, called “How to Survive in the Age of Dinosaurs”In dinosaur news this week:There's a new spinosaurid dinosaur, Protathlitis cinctorrensis, that is estimated to be 10–11m (33–36ft) longA new small theropod was named Migmanychion laiyang for its peculiar hand claws Sponsors:The PaleoPins Collection: Diversity Expansion Kickstarter expands on The PaleoPins Collection with new prehistoric animal skulls! They have new designs like Dunkleosteus, Mosasaurus, and Diplodocus. Plus, as a perk for backing, you get access to the original line of The PaleoPins Collection with over a dozen dinosaurs (plus even more prehistoric animals). Check them out and get yours at bit.ly/paleopinsThis episode is brought to you by Mylio Photos. Organize, Protect, Rediscover a lifetime of photos & videos. Download Mylio Photos for free at mylio.com/dino. Just for our community, get 25% off Mylio Photos+ by going to mylio.com/dino and keep all of your backups perfectly synched and available on all your devices at all times.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.