I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast Dinosaur Brains
Aug 25, 2021
53:27
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Dinosaur of the day Aerosteon, a Late Cretaceous megaraptoran named for its pneumatic bones.
In dinosaur news this week:
- Two Daspletosaurus braincases have many differences, possibly indicating a new species
- Two new sauropods, Hamititan & Silutitan, were named among pterosaur fossils in China
- A key difference in brain shapes may explain why birds survived the K-Pg boundary, but non-avian dinosaurs went extinct
- Students from the University of Alberta are looking for someone with a boat to help with excavating a hadrosaur
- If you live in Victoria, Australia, you can vote for a state fossil emblem
- Tokyo Dome in Japan has a Dinosaur Exhibition until September 5th
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