Dinosaur of the day Dracopelta, an ankylosaur with sides covered in overlapping armor.

We also interview Riley Black, a science writer who’s written for Smithsonian, National Geographic, Nature, Slate, and Jurassic World, to name a few. She has a blog, Laelaps, on Scientific American, and she’s written numerous books, including My Beloved Brontosaurus, Prehistoric Predators, and Written in Stone.

In dinosaur news this week:

• A new dinosaur, and close relative to Carnotaurus, was named after the supervillain Thanos
• The holotype jaw of Megalosaurus from the 1790s was chemically analyzed, they found Lead and Barium indicating two separate repairs
• A rare opalized dinosaur toe bone of Kakuru kujani from South Australia resurfaced for sale online after five decades
• Johnston Park has a new theropod on display, known as the Rosewood Swamp Tramper, along with other dinosaur statues
• 39 juvenile Psittacosaurus went on display in Shenyang, Liaoning Province in China
• The Museum of Science of the Chicxulub Crater just opened on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula
• The Yale Peabody Museum renovations will begin in 2020, with plans to reopen the museum in the fall of 2023
• The Museum of the Rockies is offering Tours for Tots: Growing Dinosaurs on February 5
• The Dalton Wells dinosaur site, north of Moab, near Arches National Park in Utah, is going through a proposal to have an entity manage it to help manage vandalism
• DinoFest 2019 is happening soon, on January 26 and 27 at the Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City
• The Magic Forest amusement park in Lake George, New York has a new manager who plans on adding dinosaurs
• A welding company in Kilgore, Texas has a steel raptor
• A four-year-old received over 100 dinosaur toys from kind strangers after he lost his collection in the recent Camp Fire

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For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Dracopelta, more links from Brian Switek, and our fun fact check out iknowdino.com/Dracopelta-Episode-211/

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