Plastic Plesiosaur Podcast
A Podcast about the natural world, things that people claim are part of the natural world, and things that used to be. With Trey the Explainer, and Miles Greb.
Plastic Plesiosaur Podcast
How Smart was T-Rex, and do Giant Ells Explain Lake Monsters? - Guest Steven Domingues
•
Miles Greb
•
Season 3
•
Episode 1
Trey dives into the recent controversy about how smart T-Rex was. A new paper by Suzana Herculano Houzel titled "Theropod Dinosaurs had primate like numbers of telencephalic neurons" has started a debate on how we can tell the cleverness of this ancient creature.
Miles looks at the worlds newest - oldest - known sentence. Found on a ivory comb, it helps give context to the region and the history of writing.
The gang also get side tracked talking about historical art of dicks, and the new Indiana Jones move. So, sorry about that.
The gang go over Monster Quest S2E15 - Lake Monsters of the North - The MonsterQuest team explore both historic and recent sightings of a mysterious eel-like monster in Lake Crescent, Newfoundland, Canada.