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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:

Ampelosaurus - Episode 192 Aug 01, 2018

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Dinosaur of the day Ampelosaurus, a "dwarf" sauropod that was only 52ft long and weighed 8 tons.

In dinosaur news this week:

The first ever diplodcoid from East Asia was discovered, Lingwulong shenqi, and it's also incredibly old for an advanced sauropod
The new Deep Time exhibit coming to the Smithsonian in 2019 will feature a T. rex biting the frill of a Triceratops
Dickinson Dinosaur Museum in North Dakota has a new claws exhibit to show the correlation between dinosaurs and modern birds
The Dinosaur Room in Rio’s National Museum recently reopened after a renovation
In the month of August, if you donate to certain Goodwills, you can get free kids tickets to Dinosaur World
A 16-year-old in the UK built a replica Allosaurus from scrap metal
In Las Vegas a man setup projectors outside his daughter's window to simulate dinosaurs looking at her
A real estate agent made a listing go viral using an inflatable T. rex costume
There’s a Stegosaurus that holds nachos (the nachosaurus)
Robert Kirkman, who created the comic The Walking Dead, is now working on a new project called Super Dinosaur
Our five-year-old listner Remy was featured in a University of Alberta article after choosing Alberta as his birthday destination—for the dinosaurs of course

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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Koreaceratops - Episode 191 Jul 25, 2018

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In the news: The ankylosaur Akainacephalus johnsoni was found in Utah with a gryposaur, a turtle, and a crocodile; Dinosaur National Monument has a new paleontologist; A geology instructor donated a large collection of fossils and specimens to the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut; A 30 foot inflatable dinosaur named Dino-Mite was briefly stolen from a fireworks store; The Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville, Virginia is having a two-day Dino Festival; York Maze in the UK has opened a 15 acre maze of a T. rex and Triceratops to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Jurassic Park; BBC4 aired the three part series titled Jurassic Coast Revealed; and a 1/2 oz pure silver colored Canadian dinosaur coin featuring Edmontonia was released

Dinosaur of the day Koreaceratops the first ceratopsian found in Korea

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Nomingia - Episode 190 Jul 18, 2018

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In the news: A team of researchers think titanosaurs made their eggs extra thick to protect them from acidic hotsprings; A review of dinosaur egg research, including how to tell body temperature from the isotopes in the shell; A nine-year-old kid, found an Iguanodon vertebra on the Isle of Wight, UK while playing on the beach; new dinosaur exhibits; Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom pop-up cards and temporary restaurant in Tokyo; and more

Dinosaur of the day Nomingia an oviraptorid with a bird-like pygostyle which may have held up a fan of feathers

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Lamaceratops - Episode 189 Jul 11, 2018

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This week, we interview with Glen McIntosh an animation supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic who worked on Jurassic Park III, Jurassic World, and Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom. Among other things, we discus all the dinosaur puppets in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom and how they made it onto the screen.

In the news: A new Triassic sauropod from Argentina, Ingentia, shows very early gigantism and incredibly fast growth rates; hundreds of new dinosaur fossils from Mongolia; New dinosaur exhibits; guesses about Jurassic World 3; Our review of Jurassic World: Evolution; and more

Dinosaur of the day Lamaceratops a small—possibly dubious—ceratopsian from Mongolia

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Lophorhothon - Episode 188 Jul 04, 2018

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In the news: Researchers looked at dinosaur hyoid bones to guess what their tongues may have been like; When The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History dinosaur hall reopens it will allow visitors to virtually feed an Edmontosaurus; In Ulan Bator, Mongolia, a man was recently arrested for hiding a Protoceratops fossil and planning to sell it; A hadrosaur thighbone from 70 million years ago was found in Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan, on Kamikoshikijima island; A new theropod footprint was found in northern Germany; An interactive map shows what Earth looked like at various periods in time, including at your address; A new Jurassic World Alexa skill; dinosaur exhibits; and more

Dinosaur of the day Lophorhothon the "crested nose" hadrosauroid from Alabama, USA

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Indoraptor - Episode 187 Jun 27, 2018

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Our review of Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom

In the news: Two new Ankylosaurs—Acantholipan gonzalezi in Mexico and Jindi Jialong in China; Dinosaur footprints found in Shandong Province, China; Smithsonian listed five ways real science would have made Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom better; And tons of new museum exhibits

Dinosaur of the day Indoraptor the new hybrid dinosaur in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom

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Othnielia - Episode 186 Jun 20, 2018

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In the news: Scientists hypothesize how bacteria in dinosaur gut contents may explain why herbivores lived in groups; The mystery theropod dinosaur auctioned off at the Eiffel Tower sold for more than 2 million Euros; Trix the T. rex is on display at Paris Jardin des Plantes for three months; Alberta, Canada has new drivers licenses and ID cards, with Albertosaurus on them; IFC Mall in Hong Kong has a T. rex on display until June 27; Another dinosaur movie, Triassic World, came out on June 19; and more

Dinosaur of the day Othnielia a small dinosaur that was originally described by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1877, but then called Nanosaurus rex

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Procompsognathus - Episode 185 Jun 13, 2018

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This week we speak with John Hutchinson, a professor of evolutionary biomechanics at The Royal Veterinary College. He is leading the Dawn Dinos project, he worked on T. rex Autopsy, and he can be found on Twitter @JohnRHutchinson

In the news: Dinosaurs may have originally evolved beaks so that they could develop faster—and spend less time vulnerable in eggs; The global destruction of forests may have been a major factor in (most) dinosaurs going extinct; At the Field Museum in Chicago, Maximo was repainted right before his debut; Some dinosaur casts will be in displayed at Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom movie premieres; Frontier Development has released another video about Jurassic World Evolution; Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom sponsored a video of dinosaur-costumed parkour scenes from the new movie; and more

Dinosaur of the day Procompsognathus a small dinosaur which probably ate insects, lizards, and other small prey

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Segisaurus - Episode 184 Jun 06, 2018

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In the news: The newly discovered Bagualosaurus may help to fill in missing information about early sauropod evolution; A Spinosaurus toe bone shows some evidence of aquatic behavior from a young age; New dinosaur tracks in Lake Powell, Utah; The mobile game Jurassic World Alive was released; Newsweek created a special edition for the 25th anniversary of Jurassic Park; New dinosaur exhibits, shirts, videos, and more

Dinosaur of the day Segisaurus A small Jurassic theropod which was so small that it probably ate insects

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Proceratosaurus - Episode 183 May 30, 2018

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This week we interview Elizabeth Rega, professor of Anatomy and associate vice provost for academic development and academic affairs at Western University of Health Sciences. She's also a consultant for the animation and gaming industries, and has worked on projects including Disney's Dinosaur.

In the news: Researchers put Nile crocodiles into an MRI to test how archosaurs see and hear; A Diplodocus hip was found with "signs of possibly being purulent" (puss-filled); Jack Horner is developing 3D dinosaur holograms; Dinosaur Fingerlings are for sale in the U.S.; Fandango, is now selling Jurassic Park & Jurassic World merchandise; A joke clip shows Owen Grady and Claire Dearing trying to check Blue into a flight as a service animal; and more

Dinosaur of the day Proceratosaurus An early tyrannosauroid whose name can be seen on an embryo cooler in Jurassic Park

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