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Dinosaur news (updates in progress)

Episode 1 - Introduction

Cretaceous crocodile reported in Gondwana Research

Argentinian abelisaur reported in the Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology.(Guemesia ochoai)

Iberian peninsula’s largest yet-discovered titanosaur reported in Nature Ecology and Evolution.(Abditosaurus kuehnei)

Iberian spinosaur re-evaluated in PL0S ONE. (Iberospinus natarioi)

Episode 2 – Prologue: The Bite of the Raptor

Brevidentavis zhangi

Chilesaurus diegosaurezi

Iteration 1

Episode 3 – Almost Paradise

An old dinosauromorph

A new hadrosaur. (Kritosaurus australis)

Two new tyrannosaurs. (Tyrannosaurus imperator and Tyrannosaurus regina)

Episode 4 – Puntarenas

A new little theropod from Uzbekistan. (Dzharaonyx eski)

A new stegosaur. (Bashanosaurus primitivus)

Episode 5 – The Beach

Sauropod strides

Torosaurus taxonomy

Episode 6 - New York

A new early branching armored dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic of southwestern China. (Yuxisaurus kopchicki)

Episode 7 – The Shape of the Data

Subaqueous spinosaurs.

The 3-D three-horner

Iteration 2

Episode 8 – The Shore of the Inland Sea

New Ankylosaurian Cranial Remains From the Lower Cretaceous (Upper Albian) ToolebucFormation of Queensland, Australia (Kunbarrasaurus iveresi)

Nest of juveniles provides evidence of family structureamong dinosaurs. (hadrosaurian, Maiasaura?)

Episode 9 – Skeleton

Fossil evidence of the avian vocal organ from the Mesozoic.

Voices of the past: a review of Paleozoic and Mesozoicanimal sounds.

Episode 10 – Cowan, Swain and Ross

Titanosaurus nesting.

T-rex’s tiny arms. (Tyrannosaurus rex)

Episode 11 – Plans

A juvenile Diamantinasaurus matildae (Dinosauria: Titanosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, with implications for sauropod ontogeny. (Diamantinasaurus matildae)

Two exceptionally preserved juvenile specimens of Gorgosaurus libratus (Tyrannosauridae, Albertosaurinae) provide new insight into the timing of ontogenetic changes in tyrannosaurids. (Gorgosaurus libratus)

Episode 12 – Hammond

A new juvenile Yamaceratops from the Javkhlant Formation of Mongolia. (Yamaceratops dorngobiensis)

A new dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the Wessex Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Barremian) of the Isle of Wight, and implications for European palaeobiogeography. (Vectiraptor greeni)

Episode 13 – Choteau

A large Megaraptoridae from Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. (Maip macrothorax)

New therizinosaurid dinosaur from the marine Osoushinai Formation provides insight for function and evolution of therizinosaur claws. (Paralitherizinosaurus japonicus)

Episode 14 – Target of Opportunity

Evidence of proteins, chromosomes and chemical markets of DNA in exceptionally preserved dinosaur cartilage. (Hypacrosaurus altispinus)

Fossilized nuclei and chromosomes reveal 180 million years of genomic stasis in royal ferns. (Osmundastrum cinnamomea)

Episode 15 – Airport

Scientists hypothesize new fossil find is of a dinosaurkilled in the asteroid strike

First articulated ornithomimid specimens from the upperMaastrichtian Scollard Formation of Alberta, Canada (Ornithomimus) 

Episode 16 - Malcolm 

Skeletal Adaptations of Ornitholestes, Struthiomimus, Tyrannosaurus (Tyrannosaurus rex)

The youngest dinosaur footprints from England and their palaeoenvironmental implications

Episode 17 - Isla Nublar 

Re-assessment of the Late Jurassic eusauropod dinosaur Hudiesaurussinojapanorum Dong, 1997, from the Turpan Basin, China, and the evolutionof hyper-robust antebrachia in sauropods (Hudiesaurus sinojapanorum, Rhomaleopakhus turpanensis)

Zircon geochronology of the new dinosaur fauna in the Middle Jurassic lower Shaximiao Formation in Chongqing, SW China

Episode 18 - Welcome

The Plantigrade Segnosaurians: Sloth Dinosaurs or Bear Dinosaurs? (Macropodosaurus gravis)

A new hypothesis of eudromaeosaurian evolution: CT scansassist in testing and constructing morphological characters (Acheroraptor, Atrociraptor, Deinonychus)

Episode 19 – Jurassic Park

Quantifying vascularity in the frontoparietal domeof Stegoceras validum (Dinosauria: Pachycephalosauridae) from high resolution CT scans (Stegoceras validum)

The cranial anatomy of the long-snouted tyrannosaurid dinosaur Qianzhousaurus sinensis from the Upper Cretaceous of China (Qianzhousaurus sinensis)

Iteration 3

Episode 20 - When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth

Reappraisal and new material of the holotype of Draconyx loureiroi provide insights on the tempo and modo of evolution of thumb-spiked dinosaurs (Draconyx loureiroi)

Insights into paleoecology of the Bajo Barreal formation (upper Cretaceous), Patagonia, Argentina 

Episode 21 – The Tour pt. 1

Pelecanimimus (Theropoda: Ornithomimosauria)postcranial anatomy and the evolution of the specialized manus inOrnithomimosaurs and sternum in maniraptoriforms (Pelecanimimus polyodont)

Arctic ice and the ecological rise of the dinosaurs

Episode 22 - The Tour pt. 2

New giant carnivorous dinosaur reveals convergentevolutionary trends in theropod arm reduction (Meraxes gigas) 

First definitive ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Jilin Province, northeastern China (indet. ankylosaurian)

Episode 23 - The Tour pt. 3

First definitive record of Abelisauridae (Theropoda:Ceratosauria) from the Cretaceous Bahariya Formation, Bahariya Oasis, WesternDesert of Egypt (indet. abelisaurid)

The dinosaur tracksite from the lower Barremian of Areia do Mastro Formation (Cabo Espichel, Portugal): implications for dinosaur behavior 

Episode 24 – Control 

The Exquisitely Preserved Dinosaur Skin of Psittacosaurus and the Scaly Skin of Ceratopsian Dinosaurs (psittacosaurus)

Histological and chemical diagnosis of a combat lesion in Triceratops (Triceratops)

Episode 25 – Version 4.4

Osteology of Deinonychus antirrhopus, an unusual theropod from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana (Deinonychus antirrhopus)

Nesting at extreme polar latitudes by non-avian dinosaurs 

Episode 26 – Control

Insufficient Evidence for Multiple Species of Tyrannosaurus in the Latest Creatceous of North America: A Comment on "The Tyrant Lizard King, Queen and Emperor: Multiple Lines of Morphological and Stratigraphic Evidence Support Subtle Evolution and Probable Speciation Within the North American Genus Tyrannosaurus (Tyrannosaurus rex)

A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Brontosaurus)

Episode 27 – The Tour 

A new Cretaceous thyreophoran from Patagonia supports a South American lineage of armoured dinosaurs (Jakapil kaniukura)

Ecomorhosapace occupation of large herbivorous dinosaurs from Late Jurassic through to Late Cretaceous time in North America 

Episode 28 – Control

A new chasmosaurinae ceratopsid from the uppser Cretaceous Farmington member of the Kirtland Formation, New Mexico (Bisticeratops froeseorum)

Gnathovorax cabreirai: a new early dinosaur and the origin and initial radiation of predatory dinosaurs (Gnathovorax cabreirai)

Episode 29 – Big Rex

Cranial anatomy of Allosaurus jimmadseni, a new species from the lower part of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Western North America (Allosaurus jimmadseni) 

Ngwevu intloko: a new early sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa and comments on cranial ontogeny in Massospondylus carinatus (Ngwevu intloko)

Episode 30 – Control

The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae (Mirarce eatoni)

Intraspecific facial bite marks in tyrannosaurids provide insight into sexual maturity and evolution of bird-like intersexual display (Tyrannosaurus rex) 

Episode 31 – Stegosaur

Africa's oldest dinosaurs reveal early suppression of dinosaur distribution (Mbiresaurus raathi)

The osteology and affinities of Eotyrannus lengi, a tyrannosauroid theropod from the Wealden Supergroup of southern England (Eotyrannus lengi)

Episode 32 – Control

Elemgasem nubilus: a new brachyrostran abelisaurid from the Portezuelo Formation of Patagonia, Argentina (Elemgasem nubilus) 

Upper Cretaceous dinosaur nesting colony preserved in abandoned crevasse splay deposits, Wi Island, South Korea 

Episode 33 – Breeding Sites

A New Nanoid Titanosaur From the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil. (Ibirania parva)

Protogynous Sex Change in the Reed Frog Hyperolius viridiflavus. (Hyperolius viridflavus)

Iteration 4

Episode 34 – The Main Road

Taxonomic, palaeobiological and evolutionary implications of a phylogenetic hypothesis for Ornithischia (Archosauria: Dinosauria)

A sauropod from the Lower Jurassic La Quinta formation(Dept. Cesar, Colombia) and the initial diversification of eusauropods at lowlatitudes. (Perijasaurus lapaz)

Episode 35 – Return

A new massopodan sauropodomorph from Trossingen Formation(Germany) hidden as ‘Plateosaurus’ for 100 years in the historical Tübingencollection. (Plateosaurus trossingensis, Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum)

Osteohistology and taphonomy support social aggregation in the early ornithischian dinosaur.

Lesothosaurus diagnosticus. (Lesothosaurus diagnosticus)

Episode 36 – Nedry

A comprehensive anatomical and phylogenetic evaluation of Dilophosaurus wetherilli (Dinosauria, Theropoda) with descriptions of new specimens from the Kayenta Formation of norther Arizona. (Dilophosaurus wetherilli)

Nevadadromeus schmitti (gen. et sp. nov.), a New Basal Neornithischian with Affinities to the Thescelosaurinae, from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Willow Tank Formation of Southern Nevada.

Episode 37 – Bungalow

A review of European Triassic theropods  

New giant theropod material from the Kem Kem Compound Assemblage (Morocco) with implications on the diversity of mid-Cretaceous carcharodontosaurids from North Africa. (indet. carcharodontosauridae)

Episode 38 – Tim 

A new 'duck-billed' dinosaur (Onirthischia: Hadrosauridae_ from the upper Campanian of Texas points to a greater diversity of early hadrosaurid offshoots. (Malefica deckerti)

The Role of Avian Rictal Bristles.

Episode 39 – Lex

Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira (silesauridae)

Binocular vision in theropod dinosaurs (Tyrannosaurus rex)

Episode 40 – Control

The Double Dinosaur Brain Myth (Stegosaurus) 

Allosaurus Died from Stegosaur Spike to the Crotch, Wyoming Fossil Shows (Allosaurus, Stegosaurus) 

Episode 41 – The Road

Injured dinosaur left behind unusual footprints

Footprints: Drought uncovers 113 million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Texas

Episode 42 – Control

Early Evolution of Modern Birds Structured by Global Forest Collapse at the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction

New materials of the Early Cretaceous spinosaurid (Theropoda) teeth of Napai Basin, Fusui County, Guangxi

Episode 43 – In The Park

A non-avian dinosaur with a streamlined body exhibits potential adaptations for swimming (Natovenator polydontus)

Intestinal preservation in a birdlike dinosaur supports conservatism in digestive canal evolution among theropods (Daurlong wangi)

Episode 44 – Control

A new small-bodied ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of North Patagonia (Río Negro Province, Argentina) (Patagopelta cristata) 

Three-dimensional soft tissue preservation revealed in the skin of a non-avian dinosaur (hadrosaur skin)

Episode 45 – The Park

A New Titanosauriform Sauropod with An Unusual Tail from theLower Cretaceous of Northeastern China (Ruxinia zhui)

Decoupling the skull and skeleton in a Cretaceous bird with unique appendicular morphologies (Cratonavis zhangi)

Episode 46 – Dawn

Wear biomechanics in the slicing dentition of the giant horned dinosaur Triceratops (Triceratops horridus)

Stable isotope record of Triceratops from a massaccumulation (Lance Formation, Wyoming, USA) provides insightsinto Triceratops behaviour and ecology (Triceratops horridus)

Episode 47 – The Park

What The Frog’s Eye Tells the Frog’s Brain (amphibian visual cortex)

Hadrosauroid Jaw Mechanics and the Functional Significance of the Predentary Bone

Episode 48 – Search

An exquisitely preserved theropod dinosaur embryo sheds light on avian-like prehatching postures

New materials of the Early Cretaceous spinosaurid (Theropoda) teeth of Napai Basin, Fusui County, Guangxi (Ligabuesaurus leanzai)

Episode 49 – Aviary

Cearadactylus atrox Leonardi & Borgomanero, 1985 (Cearadactylus atrox) 

Osteology and phylogenetic relationships of Ligabuesaurus leanzai (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of the Neuquén Basin, Patagonia, Argentina (Cearadactylus atrox)

Episode 50 – Tyrannosaur

Fossil Reptiles From Mongolia and Kansu (Microceratops gobiensis)

Two Ornithischian Dinosaurs Renamed: Microceratops Bohlin 1953 and Diceratops Lull 1905  (Microceratus gobiensis) 

Episode 51 – Control

Ornithischian dinosaurs in Southeast Asia: a review with palaeobiogeographic implications

Ontogeny and variation of the pachycephalosaurinedinosaur Sphaerotholus buchholtzae, and its systematics within the genus (Sphaerotholus buckholtzae)

Episode 52 – Return Pt. 1

How Triceratops got its face: An update on the functional evolution of the ceratopsian head (Triceratops horridus)

Episode 53 – Return Pt. 2

How Triceratops got its face: An update on the functional evolution of the ceratopsian head (Triceratops horridus)

Episode 54 – Return Pt. 3

An exceptionally preserved armored dinosaur reveals themorphology and allometry of osteoderms and their horny epidermal coverings

New data on Kansaignathus sogdianus, adromaeosaurid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Tajikistan (Kansaignathus sogdianus)

Episode 55 – The Grid

Feather quill knobs in the dinosaur velociraptor (Velociraptor mongliensis)

Iyuku raathi, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation, South Africa ew data on (Iyuku raathi)

Episode 56 – The Lodge

Fossil eggshell cuticle elucidates dinosaur nesting ecology

Reconstruction of oviraptorid clutches illuminates their unique nesting biology

Episode 57 – Control

A new spinosaurid dinosaur species from the Early Cretaceous of Cinctorres (Spain) (Protathlitis cinctoerrensis) 

A new bohairornithid-like bird from the Lower Cretaceous of China fills a gap in enantiornithine disparity (Musivavis amabilis)  

Episode 58 – Destroying The World

A new alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Gobi Desert, Mongolia (Ondogurvel alifanovi)

Volcanic temperature changes moduoated volatie release and climate fluctuations at the end-Triassic mass extinction 

Episode 59 – Under Control

An early-diversging iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Rhabdodontomorpha) from the Late Cretaceous of North America (Iani smithi)

A new ornithopod dinosaur, Transylvanosaurus platycephalus gen. et sp. nov. (Dinosauria: Ornithischia), from the Upper Cretaceous of the Haţeg Basin, Romania (Transylvanosaurus platycephalus)

Episode 60 – Almost Paradigm

Vecltipelta barretti, a new ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, UK (Vectipelta barretti)

A potetnially fatal cranial pathology in a specimen of Tarchia (Tarchia kielanae)

Episode 61 – Descent 

Furcatoceratops elucidans, a new centrosaurine (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) from the upper Campanian Judith River Formation, Montana, USA. (Furcatoceratops elucidans) 

A new gigantic titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Northwestern Patagonia, Argentina (Chucarosaurus  diripienda)

Episode 62 – Hammond

New enantiornithine bird from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of southern Patagonia, Argentina (Yatenavis ieujensis) 

A New basal Neornithischian Dinosaur from the Phu Kradung Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Northeastern Thailand (Minimocursor phunoiensis)

Episode 63 – The Beach

New theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Japan provides critical implications for the early evolution ofornithomimosaurs (Tyrannomimus fukuiensis)  

Dinosaur Brooding Behavior and the Origin of Flight Feathers (velociraptor nesting)

Episode 64 – Approaching Dark

A new titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Quseir Formation of the Kharga Oasis, Egypt (Igai semkhu) 

Vectidromeus insularis, a new hypsilophodontid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, England (Vectidromeus insularis) 

Episode 65 – Epilogue: San Jose

A New Titanosaurian Sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, Southern China (Jiangxititan ganzhouensis) 

A new avialan theropod from an emerging Jurassic terrestrial fauna (Fujianvenator prodigiosus)

Iteration 8

Episode 66 – The Iterations

Phylogenetic relationships of a new titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Uruguay (Udelartitan celeste) 

An unexpected early-diverging iguanodontian dinoasur (Ornithischia, Ornithopoda) from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. (Hesperonyx matrinhotomasorum) 

Episode 67 – The Encased Mosquito

Diuqin lechiguana gen. et sp. nov., a new unenlagiine (Theropoda: Paraves) from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Neuquén Group, Upper Cretaceous) of Neuquén Province, Patagonia, Argentina. (Diuqin lechiguanae) 

Lokiceratops rangiformis gen. et sp. nov. (Ceratopsidae: Centrosaurinae) gfrom the Campanian Judith River Formation of Montana reveals rapid regional radiations and extreme endemism within centosaurine dinosaurs. (Lokiceratops rangiformis) 

Episode 68 – The Badlands

A new stegosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Gansu Province, China). (Baiyinosaurus baojiensis)

A new triassic sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe. (Musankwa sanyatiensis)

Episode 69 – John Hammond 

The First Troodontid from the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia. (Harenadracto prima)

The Phylogenetic Relationships and Evolutionary History of the Armoured Dinosaurs (Ankylosauria, Stegosauria, nodosauridae)

Episode 70 – The Inside Man

The first deep-snouted tyrannosaur from Upper Cretaceous Ganzhou City of southeastern China. (Asiatyrannus xui)

Early Cretaceous troodontine troodontid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Ohyamashimo Formation of Japan reveals the early evolution of Troodontinae.  (Hypnovenator  matsubaraetoheorum)