Suuwassea, the Ancient Thunder

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Host Matthew Donald and guest co-host Natasha Krech discuss Suuwassea, a dinosaur named after terms in the language of the Native American Crow Tribe just in time for Indigenous People's Day, because I'm really good at planning these things. It's not a coincidence, I swear. Pinkily so. From the Late Jurassic, this 45-foot dicraeosaurid sauropod was still plenty big but definitely one of the smaller long-necked dinosaurs of Jurassic North America, because we really needed a world where an animal nearly fifty feet long is somehow small for its kind. At least it's a nice gentle sauropod and not something far worse or creepier. We'll get to those, surely.

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