I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

How dinosaurs, fungi, and plants evolved together

27 Feb 2025

Audio

Description

Dinosaurs had a complex relationship with fungi and plants. We explore whether dinosaurs ate psychedelics, if they aided plant evolution, and even a carnivorous fungus.For links to the main sources, all of the details we shared about Jeholornis, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Jeholornis-Episode-528/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Jeholornis, the first known bird to eat fruit.Some of the main topics in this episode:The psychotropic fungus ergot in the CretaceousFungi in dinosaurian (Isisaurus) coprolitesDinosaurs feeding on flowering plantsDinosaur—angiosperm coevolution revisited"Hunting the Snark: the flawed search for mythical Jurassic angiosperms"Angiosperm evolution using phylogenomicsPossible pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plantsAncient pollen that may be from angiospermsHow the end-Cretaceous extinction led to modern rainforestsHow plants fared after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction Last chance to Join our patreon at the Triceratops tier or above (by midnight on Friday, February 28, 2025) to get your exclusive Allosaurus patch. If you're already a patron at the Triceratops level or above make sure to update your address so we can send it to you! patreon.com/iknowdinoSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcription

This episode hasn't been transcribed yet

Help us prioritize this episode for transcription by upvoting it.

0 upvotes

🗳️ Sign in to Upvote

Popular episodes get transcribed faster

Other recent transcribed episodes

Transcribed and ready to explore now

13:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

01 Jan 1970

Fin de Semana

10:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

01 Jan 1970

Fin de Semana

12:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

01 Jan 1970

Fin de Semana

2ª PARTE | 06 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

01 Jan 1970

El Partidazo de COPE

3ª PARTE | 22 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

01 Jan 1970

El Partidazo de COPE

3ª PARTE | 04 MAR 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

01 Jan 1970

El Partidazo de COPE

Comments

There are no comments yet.

Please log in to write the first comment.

Report any issue

I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

How dinosaurs, fungi, and plants evolved together

This episode hasn't been transcribed yet

Other recent transcribed episodes

13:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

10:00H | 21 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

12:00H | 20 DIC 2025 | Fin de Semana

2ª PARTE | 06 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

3ª PARTE | 22 ENE 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

3ª PARTE | 04 MAR 2026 | EL PARTIDAZO DE COPE

Sign in to Audioscrape

Share this moment