The current evidence for dinosaur mating displays, reproduction, walking, and running. Featuring chickens with artificial tails!

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Dinosaur of the day Valdosaurus, an iguanodont that lived in the Early Cretaceous.

Some of the topics we discuss in this episode are:

• "Display arenas" showing potential courtship ceremonies in Cretaceous rock
• Two oviraptorosaur tails that may show differences between males and females (males with tail-shaking muscles)
• Dinosaur "dance floor" of tracks that seem to show stopping and crouching behaviors
• A simulation of the enormous sauropod Argentinosaurus walking

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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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We share all our thoughts on the most surprising and interesting parts of David Hone's new book: Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior. Plus a tiny dinosaur with a lot of gastroliths and some huge dinosaurs without any.

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Dinosaur of the day Gasparinisaura, a small dinosaur, of which multiple specimens have been found with gastroliths.

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From digging up dinosaur bones to preparing fossils, Kelsie Abrams is involved with fossils from the field to the museum display. She also shares her unique perspective as a paleontologist with a background in archaeology.

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Dinosaur of the day Uteodon, an iguanodontian from the Jurassic that was thought to be a species of Camptosaurus (and still is by some researchers).

Interview with Kelsie Abrams, the paleontology fossil lab manager at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle, Washington. Follow her on Instagram @pinup_paleontologist

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David Moscato and Will Harris invited us to join them on the Common Descent podcast earlier this year. We had a great discussion ranging from dinosaurs to science communication in general.

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Velociraptor (and Oviraptor & Saurornithoides) were named exactly 100 years ago to the day! We're celebrating Velociraptor's 100 year anniversary by going through what we now know about this awesome little dinosaur.

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Dinosaur of the day Velociraptor, A small predatory dinosaur that had some of the most infamous weaponry of any prehistoric animal..

In dinosaur news this week:

• It’s November, which means it’s Dinovember!
• On November 7, 1924 (almost exactly 100 years ago, Henry Fairfield Osborn named Velociraptor

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Plus a new sauropod with a tail club, a potentially new Spinosaurus species, and several more new dinosaurs!

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Dinosaur of the day Dilophosaurus (revisited), an apex predator from the Early Jurassic of North America with a pair of large head crests (but no neck frill).

In dinosaur news this week:

• A new Spinosaurus species was reported last year from Niger
• The vertebrae in the Saurophaganax holotype may have been from sauropod(s)
• There’s a new sauropod dinosaur, Ardetosaurus viator
• There’s another sauropod with a tail club!
• There’s a new ornithopod dinosaur, Emiliasaura alessandri
• By the end of the Cretaceous, ornithopod dinosaurs had evolved teeth that made them very successful plant eaters
• Birds from the Late Cretaceous existed alongside dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus and lived like today’s birds of prey
• A rare “flat-headed” juvenile pachycephalosaurid lived in the Late Cretaceous in what’s now Texas, U.S.

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Lindsay Graham from History Daily explores the human side of two topics we often discuss on the show: Meteors and Oxygen.

• On November 30, 1954, Alabama resident Ann Hodges becomes the first person struck by a meteorite, an event that will upend the 34-year-old’s life.
• On August 1, 1774, English philosopher and chemist, Joseph Priestley, discovers a mysterious new gas, which will come to be known as “oxygen”.

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This episode is all about answering listener questions! Ranges from did non-avian dinosaurs live past the K-Pg in what's now New Zealand? Also how to survive the Mesozoic, would you go to a real life Jurassic Park, what dinosaurs would win "best in show", plus two dinosaur books that are great references.

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Dinosaur of the day Albertadromeus, a thescelosaurid that was the smallest known herbivorous dinosaur in its ecosystem.

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The stegosaur Angustungui has claws similar to Scelidosaurus despite being over 30 million years more recent. Plus a few new non-fiction dinosaur books that we've been reading lately.

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Dinosaur of the day Thescelosaurus, a "godlike" burrowing dinosaur.

In dinosaur news this week:

• There’s a new stegosaur, Angustungui qiketaiensis

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The new silesaur Gondwanax was named from Southern Brazil and may show a transition between silesaurs and neornithischians; The new tyrannosaurid Labocania aguillonae helps solidify Labocania as a true tyrannosaurid; Plus a new huge Pachyrhinosaurus skull and a new Mesozoic swimming bird.

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Dinosaur of the day Kwanasaurus, a silesaur known for its teeth and jaws that seem like they were evolved for eating plants.

In dinosaur news this week:

• A new, giant, Pachyrhinosaurus (ceratopsian) skull nicknamed “Big Sam” was found in Northern Alberta, Canada
• There’s a new silesaur, Gondwanax paraisensis, from Southern Brazil
• There’s a new tyrannosaurid species, Labocania aguillonae, from Northern Mexico
• There’s a new euornithean bird, Shuilingornis angelai, is one of the earliest known birds with semi-aquatic features

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