Top 25 Dinosaur Discoveries of 2025
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
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🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Spicomellus, Nanotyrannus, and tons of other fantastic new discoveries!
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Dinosaur of the day Garudimimus, an ornithomimosaur that wasn't that fast.
In dinosaur news this week:
- Smallest find to make a big impact: Ahvaytum (ep 531)
- HM: Archaeocursor (ep 533)
- HM: Itaguyra (ep 545)
- HM: Maleriraptor (ep 550)
- HM: Taleta (ep 553)
- Most surprising new dinosaur: Nanotyrannus lethaeus (ep 554)
- Best new therizinosaur: Duonychus (ep 535)
- Best new pachycephalosaur: Zavacephale (ep 553)
- HM: Brontotholus (ep 553)
- Best new ornithomimid: Mexidracon (ep 551)
- Best new basal neornithischian: Pulaosaurus (DD 7)
- Best new ankylosaurid genus: Huaxiazhoulong (ep 530)
- Best new dromaeosaur: Shri rapax (DD8)
- Best new compsognathid*: Huadanosaurus (ep 541)
- Best new iguanodontian: Istiorachis (ep 548)
- Best new megaraptor: Joaquinraptor (ep 552)
- Best new basal sauropodomorph: Xingxiulong yueorum (ep 549)
- HM: Lishulong (ep 539)
- Best new enantiornithine: Navaornis (ep 533)
- New genus hiding for the longest in plain sight: Newtonsaurus (DD8)
- HM: Tameryraptor (ep 534)
- Best new basal allosauroid: Yuanmouraptor (ep 536)
- Best new oviraptorosaur: Yuanyanglong (ep 532)
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| 0:48.3 | Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. |
| 0:51.4 | Keep up with the latest dinosaur discoveries and science with us. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm Garrett. |
| 0:53.0 | And I'm Sabrina. |
| 0:57.6 | And today in our 555th episode, |
| 1:03.4 | 555, if we were on a TV show, it would be a great fake phone number area code. Oh yeah. |
| 1:12.1 | We've got our top 25 dinosaur discoveries of 2025. Just keep adding to it every year. |
| 1:12.8 | We do. |
| 1:17.3 | I have the energy to go all the way up to 100, I was saying. |
| 1:19.0 | If we make it to 2100. |
| 1:20.2 | That's a lot. |
| 1:25.1 | I don't think we will because I'll be well over 100 years old if that happens. |
| 1:28.5 | But it was very easy to come up with 25 discoveries for this year because there were so many new dinosaurs named. It was kind of crazy. I think they're at least |
| 1:34.7 | 50. Yeah, I think so. We used to say there's a new dinosaur discovered almost every week because |
| 1:40.0 | when we started it was in like the 40s. And then I think once it hit 50, then it kind of went down a little bit for a few years. |
| 1:46.3 | But now we're right back up golden age of dinosauring it, which is great. |
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