Dinosaurs are obviously the coolest but what about big cats? Specifically the extinct felines?

We took a close look in our latest I Know Paleo episode (thanks to everyone who voted!)

There’s still a lot we don’t know about dinosaurs but each year we learn more

A couple decades or so ago no one knew for sure the colors of any dinosaurs. That all changed with the small theropod Sinosauropteryx

How big were the biggest dinosaurs (and how did they get so big)?

We’ll start with the obvious big dinos: the large, heavy, four-legged animals with columnar legs, known for their long necks and long tails (a.k.a. the sauropods)

Almost 40 new dinosaurs have been named this year (and we still have a few months left)!

Don’t worry, we're covering them all on I Know Dino. However, it’s hard to keep up, soooo good news for our patrons: we’ve got an early access episode for you, and it’s all about 4 of the new dinosaurs!

Our next milestone episode is coming up (550, all about the earliest dinosaurs), so it seemed like a good time to bring up our last milestone episode, which celebrated raptors

The most famous raptors are probably the ones in Jurassic Park

But did you know there’s a whole group of them?

If you could have a pet pterosaur, an anurognathid might be the best choice

They were small (one of them had an estimated wingspan of only 14 inches!) and cute, and at first glance look (maybe) a little like bats (at least to us)

(Image by Zhao Chuang, via Wikimedia Commons)

Happy #FossilFriday!

Ever wondered how dinosaurs lived?

Award winning paleontologist @deanrlomax.bsky.social and world-renowned natural history artist @bobnichollsart.bsky.social bring to life some of the most unusual & fascinating fossils with their upcoming book “The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs”

When you think about dinosaurs, do you ever think about their brains?

There’s a whole field dedicated to studying their (and other prehistoric animals’) brains. It’s called paleoneurology and it involves studying brain evolution by analyzing brain endocasts (the internal cast of a skull)

What do (some) dinosaurs and medieval knights have in common?

Armor!

Some dinosaurs were so heavily covered in armor they were like living tanks (woot woot Ankylosaurus)

Thank you!

Thanks @pocketcasts.com for sharing our paleo podcasts list! Celebrate #JurassicWorldRebirth & embrace your inner science nerd w @commondescentpod.bsky.social @pbseons.bsky.social @weirdanddead.bsky.social @jurassicparkpod.bsky.social & more (& I Know Dino ;) )

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