Welcome to Ping and Echo, a daily newsletter that shares one amazing podcast episode guaranteed to be a great listen for kids and their families. Each newsletter includes links to articles, videos, and activities related to the podcast so you can turn every episode into an adventure.
Today’s episode is from The Sum Of All Parts podcast, but it comes to us via the team at Science Vs, who shared the podcast on their feed. If you have a kiddo who loves dinosaurs, or if you were a kid who loved dinosaurs, you are going to enjoy this episode. The host is a dad who can’t understand why his kids have so many more dinosaurs to learn about than he did when he was a kid. This question leads him on a set of explorations and conversations with paleontologists about the rapidly expanding pace of discovery in their field. How did this happen? Well, it all goes back (as so many things do) to Jeff Goldblum — you’ll see. We’ve dug up some great activities you can do with your dino explorers at home.
Podcast: The Sum Of All Parts (via Science Vs.)
Episode: The Dinosaur Explosion
URL: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/o2hw89/the-dinosaur-explosion
Length: 20 minutes
🧐 You Should Know
I’ll always give you a heads up if there is anything in the podcast that might surprise or worry kids. Nothing to worry about here.
💡 Try This
After you listen to the episode you can do some dinosaur digging with the links and activities below:
Read up on more dino discoveries with these links:
Find a Dinosaur In Your Backyard? It’s All Yours - Smithsonian
How do you find dinosaur fossils? - American Museum of Natural History
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Toby, Ruby, and Josh