Episode 474: Best 23 Dinosaur Discoveries of 2023. We coated 40 new dinosaurs this 12 months and lots of extra research about how dinosaurs ate, fought, survived accidents, and a lot more. Those are the entire highest research from 2023.
Our most sensible 23 segments of 2023 (with an advantage):
- Perfect hadrosauroid: Gonkoken supply
- Cutest new dinosaur: Minimocursor supply
- Perfect sauropod tail: Ruixinia supply
- Perfect sauropod neck: Inawentu supply
- Maximum forgotten dinosaur: Oblitosaurus supply
- Maximum forgotten sauropod: Igai supply
- Perfect new ankylosaur: Patagopelta supply
- Largest have an effect on from a small fragment: Amanasaurus supply
- Perfect new ceratopsid: Furcatoceratops supply
- Perfect new ornithomimosaur: Tyrannomimus supply
- Perfect basal sauropodomorph: Qianlong supply
- Perfect alvarezsaurid: Jaculinykus supply
- Garret’s hottest dinosaur connection: Titanic supply
- Sabrina’s hottest dinosaur connection: Alexander the Nice supply
- Maximum shared interview: John Holmes on Tolkien’s presentation On Dragons supply
- Maximum spectacular (and debatable) fossil: Repenomamus interlocked with Psittacosaurus supply
- Perfect paleopathology: Nodules in an ankylosaur nasal passage supply
- Paleopathology runner up: Ornithomimosaur with blunt power trauma to its foot supply
- Paleopathology runner up: T. rex biting thru Triceratops frill supply
- Perfect ankylosaur paper: Zuul preventing every different supply
- Dinosaur egg hiding in undeniable sight: Agate in London supply
- Largest sadness: Therizinosaur claws supply
- Perfect mohawk learn about: Amargasaurus neck spines supply
- Largest alternate to a well-liked dinosaur: Utahraptor’s age supply
The dinosaur of the day: Elopteryx
- Theropod that lived within the Overdue Cretaceous in what’s now Romania (Sânpetru Formation, Ha?eg Island)
- Seemed hen like, however with a truly lengthy tail, additionally lengthy legs, and a had beak, consistent with paleoart
- Recognized from only a few fossils, and lots of paleontologists imagine it to be a nomen dubium
- Mentioned in episode 400
- Kind and handiest species is Elopteryx nopcsai
- Franz Nopcsa discovered bone fragments of the small theropod, that have been received by means of the British Museum of Herbal Historical past
- Charles William Andrews named Elopteryx in 1913
- Genus title manner “marsh wing”
- Species title in honor of Nopcsa
- Holotype is a left femur
- A fraction of higher left thighbone later referred to Elopteryx, in addition to a part of a decrease leg
- Andrews concept it used to be a seabird
- Loads of debate over what Elopteryx used to be (hen, troodontid, maniraptor, alvarezsaurid), and quite a lot of fossils referred to it however maximum of them then reassigned to different species
- Birdlike however no longer comparable to fashionable birds
- Two research in 2019 discovered Elopteryx to be a basal hen
- Lived on a big island within the Tethys Sea
- Subtropical local weather, with wet and dry seasons
- Different animals that lived round the similar time and position come with the titanosaur Magyarosaurus, the rhabdodontid Zalmoxes, and the apex predator the azhdarchid pterosaur Hatzegopteryx
A laugh Truth:
Perfect amusing truth (from Episode 447): Sauropods would were very susceptible to lightning, and no longer simply because they had been tall
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