The Shady Dinosaur and April Fowls
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast · Sabrina Ricci
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Show Notes
Archaeocursor may have been named after an April Fool's Joke, but it was a real dinosaur.
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Dinosaurs of the day: Earl Sinclair, Godzilla, & Cryptids.
In dinosaur news this week:
- There is a Shady dinosaur, and it's a Triceratops
- A Stegosaurus just sold for over 13 million dollars using shares as a sort of "investment"
- An Apatosaurus sold in Europe for about 6 million Euros
- Archaeocursor asiaticus is the oldest known ornithischian from Asia
- A 47 gram (1.7 ounce) enantiornithine bird was described with "robust teeth" and feather traces
- The "short pubis" enantiornithean bird, Novavis pubisculata, was named from the Early Cretaceous of China
- Navaornis hestiae was named after the Greek goddess Hestia, the oldest and youngest Olympian (Navaornis is an old bird with a modern looking skull)
- Baminornis zhenghensis may be the first bird to ever evolve a pygostyle (to support tail feathers)
- A new Archaeopteryx specimen was described (making it the 14th of all time)
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