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**I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast**

Did you know a new dinosaur is discovered almost every week?

Keep up with the latest dinosaur discoveries and science with I Know Dino. Have fun and relax with hosts Garret and Sabrina each week as they explore the latest dinosaur news, chat with paleontology experts, dive deep into a “dinosaur of the day,” go down *Oryctodromeus* burrows with their fun facts, answer your burning questions, and connect dinosaurs to topics ranging from chocolate to the Titanic and more! Educational and entertaining, I Know Dino is a must listen dinosaur paleontology podcast for experts and newcomers alike.

Hosted by dinosaur enthusiasts and science communicators Garret and Sabrina, a husband and wife di-know-it-all team who love dinosaurs so much they had a dino-themed wedding and now all they do is talk about dinosaurs.

Latest Episodes:

Hadrosaurus - Episode 202 Oct 10, 2018

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Dinosaur of the day Hadrosaurus, the first dinosaur skeleton to be mounted.

In dinosaur news this week:

A new dinosaur, Jinguofortis perplexus, gives a perplexing glimpse into early bird evolution
A new carcharodontosaurid specimen was found North of Lisbon in Portugal
The National Museum in Rio, Brazil may reopen in 3 years if they can secure funding
The Dinosaur Gallery at the Australian Museum has reopened after adding the T. rex from the show "T. rex Autopsy"
The New Mexico Museum of Natural History Foundation has a campaign to open a permanent exhibit of an animatronic “Bisti Beast”
The Royal Tyrrell Museum 3D printed a Daspletosaurus skull for display because the original was too fragile to cast
The Upcountry History Museum in Greenville, South Carolina, has a new exhibit, “Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice”
Beaumont, Texas will celebrate a Dinosaur Day on October 24th, with activities such as painting papier-mâché dinosaurs.
9-year-old Elijah Stevenson won first place in the Kern County Fair in California, for his dinosaur exhibit

This episode is brought to you in part by TRX Dinosaurs, which makes beautiful and realistic dinosaur sculptures, puppets, and animatronics. You can see some amazing examples and works in progress on Instagram @trxdinosaurs

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For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Hadrosaurus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Hadrosaurus-Episode-202/

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Dracorex - Episode 201 Oct 03, 2018

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Dinosaur of the day Dracorex, The "dragon king of Hogwarts".

Interview with Jaye Jurassick, frequent guest on the Jurassic Park Podcast and @jaye_jurassick on Instagram where you can see his dinosaur art.

In dinosaur news this week:

A new sauropodomorph, Ledumahadi mafube, was the largest dinosaur of its time despite still having a "crouched" posture
A ceratopsian at the Smithsonian has been called Triceratops, Diceratops, and Nedoceratops
In Villány, Hungary (a wine region), bone fragments of a small igaunodont have been found
New fossils have been found in Saskatchewan, Canada this summer, including an Edmontosaurus skull, Triceratops bones, Gorgosaurus teeth, and ankylosaur fossils
In Eastern Cape, in South Africa, scientists recently found a giant dinosaur bonebed. It’s about 200 million years old, and the animals were buried together by lots of mud
Good news for Zuul fans, the ankylosaur goes on display at the Royal Ontario Museum on December 15
Researchers are recreating part of the Brazil National Museum’s collection with 3D printers
Students aged 11-15 made a large part of the new Idaho Dinosaur Exhibit at the Idaho Museum of Natural History, as part of the Dino Camps they attended this summer
A STEM lab at Schuyler-Colfax Middle School allows the school to have a lesson plan where students dissect dinosaurs in "ZSPACE" virtual reality
Dinosaur Ecosystems, Hong Kong University’s free online course, is back! It started September 14, and there are new field trips to Canada, Spain, France, and the desert of Xinjiang, China
Dino 101 also recently got an update
There’s a new series for CBBC, called Deadly Dinosaurs demonstrating the power of dinosaurs
Mashable published a video of the puppeteers who worked on the dinosaurs in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
Speculation about Jurassic World 3 includes the idea that there may be dinosaurs in space

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For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Dracorex, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Dracorex-Episode-201/

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T. rex revisited - Episode 200 Sep 26, 2018

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Dinosaur of the day Tyrannosaurus rex, the king of the dinosaurs.

Interview with Thomas Carr, Associate Professor of Biology at Carthage College, Director of the Carthage Institute of Paleontology, and Senior Scientific Adviser to the Dinosaur Discovery Museum. He can be found on Twitter @TyrannosaurCarr

In dinosaur news this week:

A new alvarezsaurid, Qiupanykus zhangi, was found with an oviraptorosaur egg that it may have been eating
A new 23ft sauropodomorph, Yizhousaurus sunae, was found in southern China
A lesson plan for teaching paleontology to children from Julián Nájera is published in both English and Spanish
A revisit of Andrew Farke's 2013 article on the ethics of digitizing fossils
Fossils that were recently returned to China are now on display in Zhengzhou, in Henan Province
Two elephants at the Perth Zoo in Australia went on a tour to meet and greet the animatronic dinosaurs

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For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Tyrannosaurus rex, more links from Thomas Carr, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Tyrannosaurus rex-Episode-200/

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Bonitasaura - Episode 199 Sep 19, 2018

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Dinosaur of the day Bonitasaura, a small titanosaur that had some features similar to Diplodocus.

In dinosaur news this week:

A new nodosaurid ankylosaur, Invictarx zephyri, was named based on osteoderms found in New Mexico
A review of Ornithischian dinosaurs in the Morrison Formation synonymized a few and split out another named Dryosaurus elderae
Visitors to Crystal Palace Park got to get close to the dinosaurs last weekend for Heritage Open Days
Three of the 30 dinosaur statues in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, were recently damaged
Chrome used a dinosaur for their 404 error page because dinosaurs didn't have internet
On September 18, Universal Pictures and Facebook launched an AR experience for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom to coincide with the DVD release

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Alectrosaurus - Episode 198 Sep 12, 2018

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Dinosaur of the day Alectrosaurus, A medium sized cretaceous tyrannosaur that lived along side Gigantoraptor.

In dinosaur news this week:

Three juveniles of a new iguanodontian species named Choyrodon barsboldi were found in Mongolia
A new Amargasaurus relative named Pilmatueia faundezi was found in Argentina
A fire destroyed most of the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro taking with it part of the Iritator holotype, Maxakalisaurus, and many other important fossils
They have requested anyone with photos of the exhibits to send them to thg.museo@gmail.com
The Museum of Prehistory in Brabant, Netherlands, will be presented with a new Diplodocus skeleton on October 10
Cincinnati Museum Center in Ohio is getting a 55% complete 30 ft long Torvosaurus skeleton in November
A T. rex skeleton nicknamed Roosevelt is on display at the Erin Martin Design showroom in Napa County, CA
A single industrial park in China is responsible for most of the dinosaur animatronics created in the world
A family in Great Falls, Montana created a mini sauropod sculpture
Google Chrome created a birthday edition of the running T. rex to celebrate its 10th anniversary
Mattel released an interactive robotic velociraptor toy called "Alpha Training Blue"

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For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Alectrosaurus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Alectrosaurus-Episode-198/

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Achillobator - Episode 197 Sep 05, 2018

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Dinosaur of the day Achillobator, a larger dromaeosaur from cretaceous Mongolia.

In dinosaur news this week:

Two new alverezsauroids were found in China, filling the largest gap in theropod evolution
Walking with Dinosaurs The Arena Spectacular has gone on tour in Europe, with some of the most impressive dinosaur animatronics ever made
Expedition: Dinosaur, will be at Grand Rapids Public Museum starting October 14. There will be life sized animatronic dinosaurs, and visitors will be able to control some of them
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History got a $160 million donation from Edward P. Bass, a billionaire and philanthropist who graduated from Yale in 1967
Congrats to Drumheller’s World’s Largest Dinosaur Structure which reached two million visitors
In Sibay, Russia,a welder caught a T. rex on fire at an amusement park
A couple got engaged on the Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios Hollywood after riding it 62 times, breaking the park record
A fiberglass T. rex head is for sale on Okaloosa Island, in Florida
Parkasaurus, a sim where you can build your own dinosaur park, is opening up early access on Steam September 25

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Scelidosaurus - Episode 196 Aug 29, 2018

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Dinosaur of the day Scelidosaurus, the first dinosaur described based on a mostly complete skeleton, and an important ancestor to Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus.

In dinosaur news this week:

Over 260 dinosaur tracks (mostly sauropodomorph) were found in southwest China and may show sauropodomorphs swimming
In Alaska, therizinosaur and hadrosaur tracks were found together for the first time
Dinosaur footprints have been found for the first time on the Scottish mainland
A closed mine in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument may reopen, risking damage to dinosaur fossils
The University of Alberta is holding a "Dinosaur Dentistry" event on Saturday, September 22
The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum is looking for volunteers for their fossil preparation lab, to help clean and prepare Pachyrhinosaurus fossils
National Fossil day is coming up, October 17 this year here's a list of some of the events scheduled so far
Scotty the T. rex celebrated her birthday at the Discovery Centre in Easton, Saskatchewan, Canada, with a fun mock interview
Mary Anning is getting a statue in Lyme Regis, at the request of a 10-year-old girl
Paleontologist Xing Lida has a science fiction book out in China, called You Long Ji: Prehistoric Intruder
Earth Science in Cinema at the University of Utah, will explore the relationship between storytelling and scientific accuracy in Hollywood
Jurassic Outpost created a visual guide to the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park(s) and Jurassic World(s)
Jurassic Park will be in 500 theaters around the U.S. next month to celebrate its 25th anniversary

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For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Scelidosaurus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Scelidosaurus-Episode-196/

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Gryphoceratops - Episode 195 Aug 22, 2018

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Dinosaur of the day Gryphoceratops, a tiny Canadian cousin of Triceratops.

In dinosaur news this week:

A new article shows that Spinosaurus probably couldn't swim effectively, but was a capable bipedal walker on land
Victoria Arbour is the new curator of paleontology at the Royal British Columbia Museum
Dickinson Dinosaur Museum has continued excavating a tyrannosaur and hadrosaur in the Judith River Formation in Montana
Juvenile hadrosaurs bones have been found in the Spring Creek bone bed near the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Grande Prairie
The Queensland Museum in Australia is 3D scanning its collection of fossils and will share its research with Australian students and international scientists
Dinosaur Hill in Fruita, Colorado has some new signs to teach people about the historical importance of the area
Ohio State University’s Orton Hall Museum is getting a Cryolophosaurus cast to display on October 7
Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History in Texas has some new fossils, including a full sized cast of a Triceratops skull
From now until September 9, you can see the “Tyrannosaurus Exhibit: The mystery of evolution” at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum in Naha, Japan
The Bolton Museum in Bolton, UK, recently officially nicknamed their Tuojiangosaurus skeleton "Jango"
Smithsonian Mag wrote an elegy for Hatcher the Triceratops which will soon be on display being eaten by a T. rex
A list of dinosaur games includes Magic School Bus: Dinosaurs, Dinosaur Island, Jurassic Park: Danger, Dino Frontier, and Ark: Survival Evolved.
The new game, Jurassic World VR Expedition is available to play in Dave & Busters
According to J.A. Bayona, E.T. inspired the really sad Brachiosaurus death scene in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
A group of US military veterans made a Jurassic World fan film called "Jurassic World Exodus"

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Brachylophosaurus - Episode 194 Aug 15, 2018

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Dinosaur of the day Brachylophosaurus, a large hadrosaurid with a paddle-like bony crest on its head.

In dinosaur news this week:

The largest sauropod foot was found in Wyoming
Allosaurus may be getting a neotype to replace the incomplete holotype
Liaoning Beipiao Sihetun Ancient Fossils Museum is being built in China where it will open sometime next year
In Wales, Cardiff’s Bute Park will have an interactive dinosaur experience next weekend, called Jurassic Kingdom: Where Dinosaurs Come to Life
In Westchester, New York, Lasdon Park has getting a bunch of dinosaurs in their Dinosaur Garden, which is now a permanent exhibit
American Ninja Warrior released a video of Grant McCartney being chased through the course by a flock of T. rex and Velociraptor ninjas
Iron Sky: The Coming Race will feature dinosaurs, reptilians, a moon base, and a hollow earth

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Fruitadens - Episode 193 Aug 08, 2018

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Dinosaur of the day Fruitadens, the smallest known ornithischian at under 2 pounds and 3 feet in length.

Interview with Sean Rubin, the author & illustrator of Bolivar. The graphic novel where Bolivar the T. rex roams New York City and nobody notices because they are all so busy. Sean is also the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of MNY Group. He can be found on Instagram and twitter @SeanCRubin & online at seanrubin.com

In dinosaur news this week:

A new experiment of Jurassic plant growth and sauropod digestion shows that the ecosystem could hold more dinosaurs than previously thought.
A new study on fossilized melanosomes calls into question previous studies on dinosaur coloration.
A team from the University of Kansas is working on excavating a juvenile T. rex in the Hell Creek Formation.
Late Jurassic footprints are being investigated in paving stones near hotsprings in China.
Sauropod footprints from the early Cretaceous have been documented with photogrammetry in the UK.
A father and son team opened a dinosaur center in Springerville, Arizona.
A temporary inflatable green sauropod is in the Bayville dinosaur’s place while it’s being repaired.
Myles Garrett from the Cleveland Browns recently traded his signed No. 95 jersey for a dinosaur toy.
A new South Korean film came out this summer, called Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days, which featured some dinosaurs.
YouTube video “The Most Disturbing Death Scene in Jurassic Park History - Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park.” highlights the scene where compys kill a baby.
College Humor created a video showing Jurassic Park scenes with other prehistoric creatures.
The New Zealand Mint has a colored, official, Jurassic Park 25th Anniversary 1oz silver coin for sale for $85 USD.
The board game “Jurassic Park: Danger” was released by Ravensburger where one person plays as the dinosaurs trying to eat the human players.

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