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I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

Top 23 Dinosaur Discoveries of 2023

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Elopteryx, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Elopteryx-Episode-474/

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Dinosaur of the day Elopteryx, a bird like troodontid from what is now Romania (Hateg island) whose name means "marsh wing".

Our top 23 segments of 2023 (with a bonus):

  • Best hadrosauroid: Gonkoken
  • Cutest new dinosaur: Minimocursor
  • Best sauropod tail: Ruixinia
  • Best sauropod neck: Inawentu
  • Most forgotten dinosaur: Oblitosaurus
  • Most forgotten sauropod: Igai
  • Best new ankylosaur: Patagopelta
  • Biggest impact from a small fragment: Amanasaurus
  • Best new ceratopsid: Furcatoceratops
  • Best new ornithomimosaur: Tyrannomimus
  • Best basal sauropodomorph: Qianlong
  • Best alvarezsaurid: Jaculinykus
  • Garret's most popular dinosaur connection: Titanic
  • Sabrina's most popular dinosaur connection: Alexander the Great
  • Most shared interview: John Holmes on Tolkien's presentation On Dragons
  • Most impressive (and controversial) fossil: Repenomamus interlocked with Psittacosaurus
  • Best paleopathology: Nodules in an ankylosaur nasal passage
  • Paleopathology runner up: Ornithomimosaur with blunt force trauma to its foot
  • Paleopathology runner up: T. rex biting through Triceratops frill
  • Best ankylosaur paper: Zuul fighting each other
  • Dinosaur egg hiding in plain sight: Agate in London
  • Biggest disappointment: Therizinosaur claws
  • Best mohawk study: Amargasaurus neck spines
  • Biggest change to a popular dinosaur: Utahraptor's age


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