Top 22 Dinosaur Discoveries of 2022
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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🗓️ 30 December 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Hanssuesia, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Hanssuesia-Episode-422/
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Dinosaur of the day Hanssuesia, a pachycephalosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta that was once considered a troodontid.
Our top stories of 2022:
- Best soft tissue: Dakota the Edmontosaurus mummy
- Best soft tissue honorable mention #1: Dinosaur intestines
- Best soft tissue honorable mention #2: Sauropod skin (goosebumps)
- Best paleopathology study: Dolly the sauropod respiratory infection
- Earliest sauropod of the year: Mbiresaurus
- Largest megaraptorid of the year: Maip
- Keeping the debate going: Torosaurus considered valid
- Biggest movies/shows of the year: Jurassic World: Dominion and Prehistoric Planet
- Most misunderstood dinosaur: Dodo
- Our favorite new segment: The Dinosaur Connection Challenge: Connecting dinosaurs to sandwiches
- Best news for Ubirajara fans in Brazil: Ubirajara returning to Brazil
- Best dinosaur embryo: Baby Yingliang
- Best early thyreophoran: Jakapil
- Best stegosaur: New stegosaur Bashanosaurus
- Furthest reaching dinosaur story: glass beads on the moon from craters that hit earth
- Best T. rex study(s): Presentations at SVP that Tyrannosaurs had tiny arms before they had huge heads
- Smallest sauropod of the year: Ibirania
- Best new herbivore: Stegouros
- Best new herbivore honorable mention: Ankylosaur: Yuxisaurus
- Best new carnivore: New carcharodontosaurid Meraxes
- BONUS: Stromer's Riddle but with mosasaurs
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| 0:40.9 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. |
| 0:41.6 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:42.3 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:53.0 | And today in our 422 episode, episode 422, we've got the top 22 dinosaur discoveries of 2022. |
| 0:55.1 | It's all very fitting. |
| 0:56.1 | A lot of twos. |
| 1:00.9 | Really, it's our favorite 22 dinosaur stories of the year. |
| 1:03.0 | And a couple of them were from the end of 2021. |
| 1:03.7 | Yes. |
| 1:09.8 | And some of them aren't like discoveries per se, but some of them are multiple discoveries, |
| 1:10.9 | so I think there's still at least 22 discoveries in there. |
| 1:12.2 | I think so, too. |
| 1:13.4 | There's also a bonus Mosasaur story that we have in the mix as well. |
| 1:18.7 | We also have Dinosaur of the Day, Hans Susia. |
| 1:23.4 | And of course, we have two fun facts, which are our two favorite fun facts from 2022. |
| 1:29.8 | More twos. |
| 1:31.1 | But before we get into all of that, we want to thank some of our patrons for helping to keep the podcast running. |
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