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Kids month continues with maybe THE most-beloved-by-children scientific topic of all time: dinosaurs! Come on a journey back in time to learn about the giant guys who used to stomp around and eat each other all over planet Earth!

And, as if that's not good enough, we're joined by Tangents editorial assistant Deboki Chakravarti! If you need more Deboki in your life, you can listen to her podcast, Tiny Matter, here: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/tiny-matters.html

If you know a kid who loves science, have we go the show for you! It's called SciShow Kids, and it has all the great, rigorously-researched content you expect from SciShow, but for kids! Plus, it has puppets! Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/scishowkids!

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A big thank you to Patreon subscribers Garth Riley, Tom Mosner, Daisy Whitfield, and Allison Owen for helping to make the show possible!

Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! 

While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Deboki: @okidoki_boki

[Trivia Question]

Mamenchisaurus pounds of plant life consumed per day

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/science/12dinosaurs.html

[Fact Off]

Prosthetic tails on chickens to study dinosaur gait

Possible supersonic whip-like tails in sauropods 

https://daily.jstor.org/apatosaurus-tail-break-sound-barrier/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2401127?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/dinosaurs-in-motion

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2830450/

http://goriely.com/wp-content/uploads/2002-PRLwhip-1.pdf

[Ask the Science Couch]

Dinosaurs that have changed names (apato/bronto, triceratops/torosaurus)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brontosaurus-is-back1/

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/571498

https://peerj.com/articles/857/

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0081608

https://gizmodo.com/the-first-scientific-name-ever-given-to-a-dinosaur-foss-5955550

https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2018/08/31/why-do-scientific-names-change-kiokio-by-any-other-name/

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