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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

Episode 17 - Isla Nublar 

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

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

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

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

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


Episode 43 – In The Park


Episode 44 – Control


Episode 45 – The Park


Episode 46 – Dawn


Episode 47 – The Park


Episode 48 – Search


Episode 49 – Aviary


Episode 50 – Tyrannosaur

Episode 51 – Control


Episode 52 – Return Pt. 1

Episode 53 – Return Pt. 2

Episode 54 – Return Pt. 3


Episode 55 – The Grid


Episode 56 – The Lodge


Episode 57 – Control


Episode 58 – Destroying The World


Episode 59 – Under Control


Episode 60 – Almost Paradigm


Episode 61 – Descent 


Episode 62 – Hammond


Episode 63 – The Beach


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