I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

Every megaraptoran dinosaur that has been described. Plus some that aren't officially named like the "Lightning Claw" from the opal fields of Australia. And many that have been given other classifications—like a potential giant compsognathid.
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Dinosaur of the day Aniksosaurus and Aoniraptor, two predators on the smaller side for the Cretaceous. Aniksosaurus was probably under 10ft (3m) long and under 100lb (45Kg). Aoniraptor was twice as long and heavier, but it had a lot of air spaces in its bones to make it as light as possible..
Megaraptorids could be closely related to Tyrannosaurs, but they had lighter skeletons and large impressive hand claws.
The Meagaraptorans discussed in this episode:
Megaraptor: The original megaraptorid
"Lightning Claw" from the opal fields in Australia
Fukuiraptor: A slender megaraptorid with flat hand claws
Phuwiangvenator: One of the oldest genera (Early Cretaceous)
Vayuraptor: Another old genus from Thailand
Rapator: Opalized left hand bone found in 1905
Aerosteon: The aptly named "air bone" from Argentina
Australovenator: Also known as "Banjo" the largest predatory dinosaur in Australia
Joaquinraptor: One of the last surviving megaraptorans (Latest Cretaceous)
Maip: Largest known megaraptorid (30ft/9m and under 1.5 tons)
Murusraptor: Proportionally long snout from Argentina
Orkoraptor: The "toothed river thief" with specialized teeth and other features similar to compsognathids despite its large size
Tratayenia: Known from a handful of thin and hollow bones
Possible megaraptorans:
Bahariasaurus
Chilantaisaurus
Datanglong
Deltadromeus
Eotyrannus
Gualicho
Siats
Vectaerovenator
Walgettosuchus

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Episode art of Gongshuilong fanwei by Joel Lee joelleeart.com
The new hadrosaur Gongshuilong had an amazing, and tall, tail; A new close relative of Parasaurolophus with a large head crest; And a "hidden hadrosaur" Kryptohadros from Romania; Plus the PBS Eons team join to discuss their new series on the Permian and the Great Dying that started the Mesozoic.
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Dinosaur of the day Shamosaurus, a medium-sized ankylosaur.
Interview with Blake de Pastino, Kallie Moore, and Gabriel-Philip Santos, three of the hosts of the YouTube channel PBS Eons, and their new six-episode series from PBS Digital Studios and Complexly, titled Eons: Life and Death on Pangea, explores the “Great Dying”
In dinosaur news this week:
A new "hidden hadrosaur": Kryptohadros kallaiae
A new saurolophine hadrosaurid, Gongshuilong fanwei, with a sail down its tail (and maybe its back)
A new close relative of Parasaurolophus from Canada named Plesiolophus warnerensis
The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia has announced that it's closing at the end of the month. But a facebook group was created to try and save it.

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From tiny Triassic taxa to stupendous "snake-necked" sauropods. We cover eight brand new named dinosaurs—And they are all sauropods (with one sauropodomorph).
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Dinosaur of the day Venenosaurus, a small sauropod whose name means "poison lizard".
In dinosaur news this week:
A new small sauropodomorph from Zimbabwe, Musango matusadonaensis, that weighed as much as two ostriches
A sauropod in India, Ceratocaudia antiqua, was old for a neosauropod (Early/Mid Jurassic) but also old as an individual (with arthritis)
A new small titanosaur from Uruguay, Mesetasaurus protector
A new Moroccan titanosaur, Phosphatotitan khouribgaensis, looked a lot like a miniature Patagotitan
There’s a new Argentinian sauropod, Bicharracosaurus dionidei, the "big animal lizard"
A new "snake necked" mamenchisaur from Thailand was named Uragasaurus kalasinensis
The new sauropod Yantaloong lini has an extra pair of “lock and key” joints between its vertebrae
There’s a new enormous titanosauriform, Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, from Thailand with a humerus measuring 1.78m (5ft 10in) tall
The first dinosaur bone found in Antarctica belongs to a titanosaur (although its not complete enough to have a name)

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Joschua Knüppe returns to discuss working on dinosaur documentaries, paleoart (from press releases to murals), and many more projects. Plus the new raptor, Kank australis, which may have been an active fisher.
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Dinosaur of the day Oohkotokia, an armored ankylosaur that lived alongside tyrannosaurs like Albertosaurus and Gorgosaurus.
Interview with Joschua Knüppe, a paleoartist, and host of Paleostream on Twitch. He was also the scientific advisor for Netflix’s The Dinosaurs, which came out earlier this year—and we talked to him in episode 403, about the graphic novel, Europasaurus: Life on Jurassic Islands
In dinosaur news this week:
There’s a new unenlagiid dinosaur, Kank australis, that seems to have adaptations for fishing (and fossilized with fish)

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Lindsay Graham from History Daily explores the human side of two topics we often discuss on the show: extinction and volcanic eruptions.
On June 3, 1844, after becoming collector’s items for being a rare species, the last pair of great auks is killed by fishermen.
On August 26, 1883, a volcano explodes on the island of Krakatoa, sparking one of the deadlest natural disasters in history.

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