Bird Pinkerton

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1,078 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

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Unexplainable · Dinosaur mysteries with Riley Black · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

So how do we take these fossils and spin them into the stories about dinosaurs that I love to read and watch?

My guest today, Riley Black, has written a lot about how to piece together an entire narrative from fossils.

Riley writes about how we know what we know about dinosaurs.

Riley, thank you for being on the show.

For our listeners, Riley brought some dinosaur models and a cast of a dinosaur hand along.

But Riley, can you tell me a little bit about who you are, please, and what you do?

Sure.

I mean, if you are going out into the field, what is amateur about it?

I think this is a perfect transition into what I wanted to talk to you about today, which is how do we know the things that we know about dinosaurs?

And so I thought maybe we could start sort of where the paleontologists first started, which is the skeletons that they left behind.

So talk to me about how we sort of take a dinosaur skeleton, like a bunch of bones, and turn that into a story about reptiles running through the world.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Mm-hmm.

This dinosaur.

We have like these parts, like the front legs, some of its neck.

And what else?

How do we make something like this from some forelimbs, some vertebrae, some other bones, and a dream?

So you're showing me right now a model you have of a beautiful long-necked dinosaur with a long curving tail, four lovely long legs, red and green coloring.

Giant giraffe.

Big giraffe.

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