Top 24 Dinosaur Discoveries of 2024
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
A huge year for stegosaurs and theropods!
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Dinosaur of the day Yinlong, one of the earliest known ceratopsians.
Our top stories of 2024:
- Best new tyrannosaur: Asiatyrannus
- Best new tyrannosaur (runner up): Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis
- Best new titanosaur: Bustingorrytitan
- Best new titanosaur (runner up): Qunkasaura
- Best new ankylosaur: Datai
- Best new abelisaur: Koleken
- Best new ceratopsian: Lokiceratops
- Best new (maybe) burrowing dinosaur: Fona
- Best new ornithopod (most complete found in UK in 100 years): Comptonatus
- Best new theropod brow: Alpkarakush
- Best sauropod vertebra (and best rebbachisaurid): Sidersaura
- Best new rebbachisaurid (runner up): Campananeyen
- Best noasaurid theropod: Kiyacursor
- Best new caenagnathid: Eoneophron
- Best new sleeping dinosaur: Hypnovenator
- Most basal rhabdodontomorph ornithopod: Emiliasaura
- Best new silesaurid: Gondwanax
- Most expanded dinosaur group: Stegosauria. Including: Thyreosaurus, Baiyinosaurus, Angustungui, & Yanbeilong
- Coolest discovery story: Musankwa
- Most tenacious fossil: Ardetosaurus
- Most exciting new Mesozoic bird: Shuilingornis
- Best bird names: Avisaurus ("bird lizard") and Magnusavis ("big bird")
- Fastest name change: "Jingjia" renamed Jingiella
- Garret's favorite Dinosaur Connection Challenge: bubonic plague
- Best paleopathology study: South American theropods
- Best paleopathology study (runner up): Plateosaurus
- Oldest known paleontology (maybe): 10,000 year old petroglyphs
- Best friendly sauropodomorph study: Lufengosaurus
- Best new spinosaurid: Riojavenatrix
- Spinosaur diving and hunting/swimming update
- Spinosaur skull shapes
- Spinosaurs had skull and teeth to go after large prey
- Best new tyrannosaur paper: Gorgosaurus gut contents
- Nanotyrannus update
- T. rex intelligence estimation
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| 0:40.9 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. |
| 0:43.9 | Keep up with the latest dinosaur discoveries and science with us. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:45.5 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:56.1 | And today in our 523 episode, we're doing our best of 2024, also known as top 24 dinosaur discoveries of 2024. |
| 1:00.8 | Yes, although there might be more than 24 items that we mentioned. |
| 1:01.4 | Some bonuses. |
| 1:02.3 | Some bonuses. |
| 1:05.8 | Also, we are still on parental leave. |
| 1:08.6 | We're expecting our second baby any day now. |
| 1:11.9 | So we did record some episodes ahead of time because, |
| 1:16.9 | well, we wanted to make sure that you still got your dino fix while we were out. Yeah, so that means that even though it's the top discoveries of 2024, it's sort of not including November and |
| 1:23.1 | December. Right. We are up to date as of the end of October, except that I noticed right after we recorded our last October episode, a new dinosaur came out. |
| 1:34.6 | Yeah, that happens. What we always do with our best of episodes is it's really the best of our show for the year, the things that we covered on the show, the things that we talked about |
| 1:45.4 | and discussed. |
| 1:46.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:46.6 | Not necessarily the things that came out technically published this year versus last |
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