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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy October fellow dinosaur enthusiasts! It’s been a busy month, with lots of goodies for our Dino Friends and DI-KNOW-IT-ALLs on Patreon If you’re thinking of joining, here’s what happened:

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hello fellow dino enthusiasts! We've been podcasting about dinosaurs for over 10 years. Our mission: to spread dinosaur joy and science.Whether through podcasts, bonus audio content, newsletters, books, teaching resources, videos, or live events, our goal is to teach, learn, and celebrate dinos

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Quick announcement! FREE this month for our Dino Friends (our free Patreon membership) is our exclusive Dino Download episode 14! In the episode we talk about 7 surprising dinosaur revelations (huge Ceratosaurus teeth, larger silesaurs, and even larger stegosaurs (plus 4 more stories).

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Hello Dino Friends and DI-KNOW-IT-ALLs! I Know Dino is an independent podcast and we rely mostly on listeners. We have a big goal for this month: to get to 1000 members on our Patreon. If we make our goal, we’ll have a vote on how to celebrate! We’re only about 150 members away 🤞

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We're live now, come chat with us! iknowdino.com/cards

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Not only did we reach our first stretch goal, we also sold out of our signed copy add-on of our National Geographic Kids book, “I Know Dino!” Thank you so much to all the dino enthusiasts who have backed our project, and helped us bring our Dinosaur Rookie Cards to life! We are so grateful

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We have an important question: Why was Spicomellus covered in spikes? Share in the comments. Wrong answers only (If you like Spicomellus as much as we do, head over to our BackerKit so you can get our dinosaur trading cards, which includes Spicomellus!) iknowdino.com/cards

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

We’re so close to unlocking our first stretch goal! Thanks to everyone who voted, our first stretch goal to unlock is the Shri rapax card

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

We have one last reveal before our Dinosaur Rookie Cards - Collectibles for Dinosaur Fantatics campaign goes live tomorrow! In addition to the dinosaur trading cards and the stickers, we’re also offering a Styracosaurus enamel pin.

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We’ve got another announcement about our Dinosaur Rookie Cards - Collectibles for Dinosaur Fantatics project. In addition to the dinosaur trading cards, you can pledge to get a sticker version of all the dinosaurs!

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Our sixth, and last, dinosaur we’re revealing for our Dinosaur Rookie Cards - Collectibles for Dinosaur Fantatics is… Nanotyrannus! The first bones paleontologists found of this “dwarf tyrant” dinosaur were originally named as a species of the tyrannosaur Gorgosaurus.

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The fifth dinosaur for our Dinosaur Rookie Cards - Collectibles for Dinosaur Fantatics is… Yuanyanglong. This was a curious dinosaur, built for wading in water (with long legs and rigid ankles) and eating plants. Scientists even fount small stones, or gastroliths, inside its stomach.

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The fourth dinosaur we’re revealing in our Dinosaur Rookie Cards - Collectibles for Dinosaur Fantatics is… Tameryraptor! This dinosaur was excavated over 100 years ago in Egypt (its genus name means “thief from the beloved land” and that land refers to Egypt).

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Our third dinosaur in our Dinosaur Rookie Cards - Collectibles for Dinosaur Fantatics is… Zavacephale! This is the most complete and oldest known pachycephalosaur (the dome-headed dinos). This “origin head” dinosaur not only had a magnificent dome, it also had teeny tiny hands.

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Next up for our Dinosaur Rookie Cards - Collectibles for Dinosaur Fantatics is… Duonychus! This “two claw” dinosaur had incredibly large claws, just like its cousin Therizinosaurus. Therizinosaurus is famous for having the longest claws of any dinosaur (actually any animal in Earth's entire history)

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The first card we’re revealing for our Dinosaur Rookie Cards - Collectibles for Dinosaur Fanatics is (drumroll please)… Spicomellus! Of course we had to include the spikiest dinosaur of all time.

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Ready for the big news? We are making dinosaur trading cards! About 50 new dinosaurs are named every year, and they deserve to be celebrated. What better way than with rookie trading cards?

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

We’ve got an exciting new project in the works! We’ll be making an official announcement soon. Stay tuned…

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Some skull photos we’ve taken over the years. Do you recognize them all?

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The Tanis site in the Hell Creek Formation (in North Dakota) is one of the most important paleo sites in North America, showing details of the exact day when the Cretaceous ended. It was a violent day when the asteroid hit, with huge earthquakes, fires, record-setting tsunamis, and more

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

We took some time this week to look back at dinosaur projects we’ve done, and stumbled upon this short video showing our Oryctodromeus drawing in progress (drawing inspired by Oryctodromeus and meerkats, because at the time we were really into the show Meerkat Manor) So here it is!

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Prehistoric sharks are fascinating (and a little terrifying) Sharks have been around for millions and millions of years. The earliest evidence of them are just a few scales that date back to 450 million years ago, in the Late Ordovician (or at least, they’re shark-like scales)

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Soft tissues are in most parts of the body, and they include fat, muscle, nerves, blood vessels, ligaments (connects bones, or cartilages, or holds together a joint), tendons, and other fibrous tissues, as organs (brain, heart, etc.)

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Recently we got to take a family trip to Asia (years of planning and we finally made it, yay!) Some of the highlights include visiting the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo again (we love the squatting Tyrannosaurus and it’s always nice to see thyreophorans)

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Garret recently got to be a guest on @popsci.com 's ⁨"Ask Us Anything" podcast, where he got to chat about the enigmatic dinosaur Spinosaurus (and his favorite, though unlikely, theory about what Spinosaurus may have used its sail for). Thanks to the team at "Ask Us Anything" for having us on!

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Did any dinosaurs actually spit venom?

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

One of the biggest recent dinosaur debates was put to rest late last year: Nanotyrannus is a valid dinosaur! Not only did paleontologists find Nanotyrannus to be its own genus (and not be a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex) but they also proposed a second species of Nanotyrannus

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Sauropods were the largest animals on land to ever live (only one of the many reasons they were so cool!) Some of them are estimated to be close to 200 ft long and weigh around as much as a blue whale And not only were they big, they had extremely long necks and tails

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

On this day, 202 years ago, the first non-avian dinosaur got its scientific name: Megalosaurus William Buckland named Megalosaurus (and his wife Mary illustrated the dinosaur) based on a few bones, including a lower jaw with a really big, sharp tooth sticking out in the middle

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Happy Valentine's Day! We thought it'd be fun to share the 3D dinosaur we printed for friends this year. We're calling it our StegoSweetheart

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Dinosaurs didn’t just leave behind their bones. Some of them left other presents, in the form of fossilized poop (a.k.a. coprolites) William Buckland, namer of the first dinosaur Megalosaurus, coined the term coprolite. It means “dung stone”

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

When you think of “horned faced” dinosaurs (Ceratopsia), what comes to mind? Maybe it’s a large animal, like Triceratops, with a frill on its massive head, and horns above the eyes or on the nasal

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Thank you for chatting with us! You've done so many cool things!

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The amazing father and son documentary Why Dinosaurs? is now streaming on their website! (Of course, we're not biased at all ;) ) It has been so cool to see this film evolve over the years and see the amazing community Tony and James have built. Congrats! You can watch it here: whydinosaurs.com

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Happy new year! It's that time of year again where we announce this year's patch (Drumroll please...) It's the sauropod Bajadasaurus! If you'd like to get this patch, join our dinosaur community and make sure you're a patron at the Triceratops tier or above by Feb 28 patreon.com/join/iknowdino

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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!)

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

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

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

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)

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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!

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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?

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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)

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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”

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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)

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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)

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I Know Dino @iknowdino.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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 ;) ) blog.pocketcasts.com/2025/06/30/s...

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