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141. What Dinosaur Real Good? Glyptodon!
🕑 Added 2018-11-29 07:17:04 +0000 UTC A brand new Small Beans podcast evolves before your very eyes in this initial episode of What Dinosaur Something Something! Co-hosts and dino-pals Abe Epperson, Bridgett Greenberg and Michael Swaim debate the virtues of the prehistoric turtle the size of a VW bug that was the Glyptodon.Art by Small Beans members.
Wicked guitar riff by Abe Epperson.
Comments
Wenlockian
Great Podcast! I'm currently doing a degree on palaeontology. For future reference Dinosaurs are generally defined as diapsids (two holes in the back of skull behind the eyes) that would have had both pairs of legs/flippers beneath the main body of the animal when it was alive. Dinosaurs inhabited the Mesozoic period, which is the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods (250-65 Million years ago). Also if you look more at dinosaurs you'll notice that Stegosauria, Ceratopsians (horn faced like triceratops) and most herbivores belong to the Ornithischian (bird-hipped) DID NOT EVOLVE INTO BIRDS. Palaeontologists like to name things to confuse people. If you want a cool non dinosaur I would recommend "Anomalocaris" it was a big shrimp (1m-ish) around 500 million years ago, it wasn't the biggest or the baddest but was the worlds first apex predator which is pretty noteworthy.
Sam Wellings
I absolutely adored this, the idea of a load of teenage cave men riding around on a glyptodon made me die. Can't wait for the next one.
