Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska was a Polish scientist and the first woman to lead a dinosaur excavation expedition. On her explorations of the Gobi Desert, she discovered many famous animals, including Deinocheirus—a dinosaur that, for decades, was known only by its enormous, terrifying claws. But when we finally found the rest of its body, it turned out to look more like Jar Jar Binks. This is the story of Zofia, and the dinosaur that surprised us all - as told with our guests - Sabrina and Garret from the I Know Dino podcast.

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Thanks to Sabrina and Garret from the I Know Dino Podcast. Listen to them. It's a great show.

I Know Dino Website: https://iknowdino.com

I Know Dino Book: https://books.disney.com/book/i-know-dino/

(The book is awesome - we highly recommend it).

https://archive.org/details/inpursuitofearly0000kiel/page/n5/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/huntingfordinosa00kiel

https://iknowdino.com/deinocheirus-episode-527/

https://www.nature.com/articles/520158a

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.16203

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13874

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13930

Image: Photo by Garret Kruger

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