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What Did Victorians Think of Dinosaurs?

2024/9/12
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I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

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Edward Dolnick joins to discuss how scientists and the general public viewed dinosaurs in the early 1800s. Plus hadrosaurs living in age-separated groups, two new hadrosauroids: Coahuilasaurus from Mexico and Qianjiangsaurus from China, and the latest installment in the Jurassic Park franchise will be called Jurassic World Rebirth and come out on July 2, 2025

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Dinosaur of the day *Theiophytalia, *an iguanodontian that was originally thought to be from the Jurassic (due to a Bone Wars shipping mix-up), but actually lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Colorado.

Interview with Edward Dolnick, the author of the book, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, which is about how a group of Victorians discovered prehistoric animals and it changed our understanding of the world

In dinosaur news this week:

  • There’s a new kritosaurin hadrosaur dinosaur, Coahuilasaurus lipani
  • There’s a new hadrosauroid ornithopod dinosaur, Qianjiangsaurus changshengi
  • The hadrosaur Hypacrosaurus lived in groups separated by age (juveniles lived separately from adults)
  • The new Jurassic World film, coming out next July 2, has a title: Jurassic World Rebirth

 

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