I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

Dinosaur Tracks & Escape Rooms


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New track sites, swim tracks, and mating dance arenas around the world tell us about the behavior of theropods, ceratopsians, and sauropods. Plus David Spira joins from Room Escape Artist to share his favorite dinosaur themed escape rooms.

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Segnosaurus, links from David Spira, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Segnosaurus-Episode-558/

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Dinosaur of the day Segnosaurus, a therizinosaur with interesting teeth.

Interview with David Spira, co-creator of RoomEscapeArtist.com, which publishes well-researched, rational, and reasonably humorous escape room reviews, design tips, player tips, and industry commentary

In dinosaur news this week:

  • The Science Museum of Minnesota closed for a day in response to the local ICE presence. If you want to support Minnesotans go to www.standwithminnesota.com/
  • In Bolivia, there are almost 18,000 theropod dinosaur tracks that show evidence of running, sauntering, and swimming
  • An earlier study of the Carreras Pampa site also found that the theropods feet sunk in the mud
  • One set of footprints shows the fastest running theropod trackway in the Cretaceous
  • Scientists re-examined the longest known theropod trackway in China
  • Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado, has the largest known dinosaur mating dance arena
  • Tracks from 76 million years ago may show that ceratopsians and ankylosaurs hung out together
  • Paleontologists found a set of sauropod tracks that show it made a loop
  • Scientists found multiple trackways in Oxfordshire, England, from mostly sauropods walking at a steady pace
  • Theropod footprints were found in a crisscross pattern in Texas, U.S.
  • Thousands of prosauropod footprints from the Triassic were found in a national park in Italy

 

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