Ampelosaurus - Episode 192

Dinosaur of the day Ampelosaurus, a "dwarf" sauropod that was only 52ft long and weighed 8 tons.

In dinosaur news this week:

• The first ever diplodcoid from East Asia was discovered, Lingwulong shenqi, and it's also incredibly old for an advanced sauropod
• The new Deep Time exhibit coming to the Smithsonian in 2019 will feature a T. rex biting the frill of a Triceratops
• Dickinson Dinosaur Museum in North Dakota has a new claws exhibit to show the correlation between dinosaurs and modern birds
• The Dinosaur Room in Rio’s National Museum recently reopened after a renovation
• In the month of August, if you donate to certain Goodwills, you can get free kids tickets to Dinosaur World
• A 16-year-old in the UK built a replica Allosaurus from scrap metal
• In Las Vegas a man setup projectors outside his daughter's window to simulate dinosaurs looking at her
• A real estate agent made a listing go viral using an inflatable T. rex costume
• There’s a Stegosaurus that holds nachos (the nachosaurus)
• Robert Kirkman, who created the comic The Walking Dead, is now working on a new project called Super Dinosaur
• Our five-year-old listner Remy was featured in a University of Alberta article after choosing Alberta as his birthday destination—for the dinosaurs of course

This episode is brought to you in part by TRX Dinosaurs, which makes beautiful and realistic dinosaur sculptures, puppets, and animatronics. You can see some amazing examples and works in progress on Instagram @trxdinosaurs

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