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What the Titanic has to do with dinosaurs

Episode 424: What the Titanic has to do with dinosaurs. Plus two new dinosaurs, a sauropod and a hadrosaur that both show unexpected diversity in their locales; Ornithopods had bigger brains than we thought; and more

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Dinosaur of the day Silesaurus, a dinosauromorph (or dinosaur depending on who you ask) from the Triassic with herbivorous and quadrupedal traits.

In dinosaur news this week:

  • There’s a new macronarian sauropod, Yuzhoulong, that shows more diversity in Sichuan, China than previously thought
  • A new basal hadrosaurid, Malefica, named "witch" or "sorceress" was found in Big Bend National Park
  • Ornithopods, and especially hadrosaurs, had bigger brains than we thought
  • Washington state is still working on getting a state dinosaur
  • South Australian Museum in Adelaide, Australia, has a new exhibit, Six Extinctions

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