Top 23 Dinosaur Discoveries of 2023
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Elopteryx, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Elopteryx-Episode-474/
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Dinosaur of the day Elopteryx, a bird like troodontid from what is now Romania (Hateg island) whose name means "marsh wing".
Our top 23 segments of 2023 (with a bonus):
- Best hadrosauroid: Gonkoken
- Cutest new dinosaur: Minimocursor
- Best sauropod tail: Ruixinia
- Best sauropod neck: Inawentu
- Most forgotten dinosaur: Oblitosaurus
- Most forgotten sauropod: Igai
- Best new ankylosaur: Patagopelta
- Biggest impact from a small fragment: Amanasaurus
- Best new ceratopsid: Furcatoceratops
- Best new ornithomimosaur: Tyrannomimus
- Best basal sauropodomorph: Qianlong
- Best alvarezsaurid: Jaculinykus
- Garret's most popular dinosaur connection: Titanic
- Sabrina's most popular dinosaur connection: Alexander the Great
- Most shared interview: John Holmes on Tolkien's presentation On Dragons
- Most impressive (and controversial) fossil: Repenomamus interlocked with Psittacosaurus
- Best paleopathology: Nodules in an ankylosaur nasal passage
- Paleopathology runner up: Ornithomimosaur with blunt force trauma to its foot
- Paleopathology runner up: T. rex biting through Triceratops frill
- Best ankylosaur paper: Zuul fighting each other
- Dinosaur egg hiding in plain sight: Agate in London
- Biggest disappointment: Therizinosaur claws
- Best mohawk study: Amargasaurus neck spines
- Biggest change to a popular dinosaur: Utahraptor's age
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| 0:41.9 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. I'm Garrett. |
| 0:42.7 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:52.1 | And this is our 474th episode and also our year-end wrap-up for the top 23 dinosaur discoveries of 2023. |
| 0:55.6 | Woo! That makes it our last episode of 2020. |
| 0:56.5 | Yes. |
| 0:58.3 | This year went by fast. |
| 0:58.9 | It did. |
| 1:01.4 | And there are so many new dinosaur discoveries. |
| 1:03.6 | Actually, way more than 23. |
| 1:09.3 | It was difficult to narrow it down to just 23 discoveries and studies to talk about. |
| 1:09.8 | Yes. |
| 1:10.8 | Yeah, it always is. Although I remember the beginning of this year, it was kind of a slow start when it came to talk about. Yes. Yeah, it always is. |
| 1:15.7 | Although I remember the beginning of this year, it was kind of a slow start when it came to new dinosaur discoveries. |
| 1:16.5 | That's true. |
| 1:18.9 | And then they came in real hot at the end. |
| 1:19.4 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:29.5 | Although, really interestingly, it was very much the year of the herbivore because not a single one of our best new dinosaurs is a carnivore. |
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