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Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus was just named from Kyrgyzstan, plus a new abelisaurid from France, and a Triassic dinosaur in Brazil. We also discuss if dinosaur mounts are art and a few new dinosaur books.

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Dinosaur of the day Confuciusornis, a crow-sized dinosaur that is known from potentially over 1,000 specimens.

In dinosaur news this week:

• There’s a new allosauroid theropod dinosaur, Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus, that was found in Kyrgyzstan
• There’s a new abelisaurid theropod dinosaur, Caletodraco cottardi, described from Normandy, France
• Should dinosaur skeletal mounts be considered works of art?
• A couple new dinosaur books

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Susan Butts joins us to explain all the changes and upgrades at the newly renovated Yale Peabody Museum! Plus, new sauropods from Argentina include Campananeyen and a couple of unnamed titanosauriforms. And Australotitan may be a junior synonym.

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Dinosaur of the day Ruyangosaurus, a very large titanosauriform sauropod from the Early Cretaceous.

Interview with Susan Butts, the Director of Collections & Research at the Yale Peabody Museum and her background is as an invertebrate paleontologist

In dinosaur news this week:

• There’s a new rebbachisaurid, Campananeyen fragilissimus
• There are new titanosauriform sauropods in the Portezuelo Formation of Patagonia
• Australotitan (a.k.a.) “Cooper” may be a junior synonym of the sauropod Diamantinasaurus

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This history of dromaeosaurs (better known as raptors). Plus an A to Z guide of the most common dinosaur terms and inside jokes from our first 500 episodes.

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Dinosaur of the day Deinonychus (revisited), a dinosaur famous for its sickle-claws and eating the hadrosaur Tenontosaurus.

Some highlights about dromaeosaurs:

• Dromaeosaurs have many bird like features in their shoulders, wrists, and feathers
• Both with modern raptors (birds of prey) and dromaeosaurs the foot is the deadly weapon
• Utahraptor was discovered around the time the movie Jurassic Park came out, more recently a new huge block of Utahraptors was found
• Paleontologist Bob Bakker tells a compelling story of a Utahraptor through her eyes in his novel Raptor Red
• Paleontologist John Ostrom named Deinonychus in 1969 (which also has ties to Jurassic Park)
• "The first definitive dromaeosaur with a reasonably complete skeleton ever found in the US" is nicknamed "Julietraptor"

Plus, I Know Dino A to Z (the most common dinosaur terms you should know)

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Dinosaur of the day Oxalaia, a spinosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of northeastern Brazil which was almost as large as Spinosaurus (if it wasn't Spinosaurus itself).

In dinosaur news this week:

• At least 27 iguanodontians from the new genus, Iyuku, were discovered in a South African bonebed
• New chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur Bisticeratops froeseorum was discovered.
• Scientists named a new type of dinosaur egg (which was found full of crystals).
• Scientists found a pathology in a titanosaur egg that could tell us more about dinosaur reproductive behavior.
• A bunch of dinosaur tracks and trackways were found in Alberta, Canada, that may show dinosaurs being sociable.
• Another Tyrannosaurus rex is going on auction.
• Scientists found new dinosaur tracks in Alaska thanks to an earthquake.
• The Badlands Dinosaur Museum found baby dinosaurs this summer.

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Dinosaur of the day Patagosaurus, a Eusauropod that lived in the Early–Middle Jurassic in what is now Patagonia, Argentina.

In dinosaur news this week:

• A new unnamed tyrannosauroid was discovered in Idaho which was smaller than Moros, but bigger than Suskityrannus
• There’s a new therizinosaur named Paralitherizinosaurus that was found in Hokkaido, Japan
• A new specimen of Yulong mini was found, which helps show how the dinosaur grew as it aged
• Sauropods may have developed soft tissue pads on their feet by the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic, and this may have been a key adaptation for them to evolve into giants
• The Peabody Museum of Natural History may have fossils of a new tyrannosaur species from the east coast of the U.S.
• The Philip J. Currie Museum took visitors on a rafting tour to look for fossils this summer
• We also put together a list of 9 places to go dig for fossils

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Dinosaur of the day Microvenator, an oviraptorosaur that originally had the much more impressive name "Megadontosaurus".

In dinosaur news this week:

• A new thyreophoran that looks like a miniature, armored, Carnotaurus was found in Argentina
• A new, very large spinosaur was discovered on the Isle of Wight in England
• Spinosaurids replaced teeth very quickly, which is probably why we’ve found so many
• Oxford University Museum of Natural History is re-running a lecture J.R.R. Tolkien gave in 1938 about dragonlore and dinosaurs
• The Field Museum in Chicago recently got a new hadrosaur dinosaur fossil
• Another dinosaur, Zephyr, is going to auction next month
• A student at Southern Methodist University in Texas makes dinosaur origami
• There’s a new trailer for Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

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Dinosaur of the day Zapalasaurus, a basal diplodocoid sauropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Neuquén Province, Argentina.

In dinosaur news this week:

• A new carcharodontosaurid with tiny arms, Meraxes gigas, helps show that all large-headed carnivores had relatively small arms
• Gastroliths and Deinonychus teeth have been found associated with April the Tenontosaurus
• Scientists looked at the growth of the smallest (but not yet named) ornithopod that lived in what is now Spain
• An opalized fossil may be a new dinosaur species
• The Australian Opal Centre hosts an annual dinosaur fossil dig
• Ubirajara is being returned to Brazil
• Podokesaurus holyokensis became the official state dinosaur of Massachusetts
• Delaware has a state dinosaur, Dryptosaurus
• There are seven missing sculptures from Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
• Lottie, the Triceratops statue from Louisville, Kentucky got a makeover
• NBC is making a new natural history series show called Surviving Earth
• Stephen Fry is hosting Dinosaur — with Stephen Fry, a four part series about dinosaurs in the Jurassic and Cretaceous
• You can play Dinosaur Fossil Hunter on Steam
• Games Radar published a list of the 10 best dinosaur games

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Dinosaur of the day Magnosaurus, A relatively small megalosauroid theropod that lived in the Middle Jurassic in what is now England.

In dinosaur news this week:

• New sauropod Perijasaurus lapaz was discovered in Colombia
• A new abelisaurid from the Bahariya Oasis adds yet another carnivorous group to the formation
• A sauropod was found in a backyard in Portugal
• Thomas Carr and a team found fossils of T. rex, Triceratops, and Edmontosaurus on a 4-week expedition in the Badlands of Montana
• A nearly complete juvenile hadrosaur with skin impressions was found in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Canada
• The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences excavated three dinosaurs in Wyoming's Morrison Formation
• 100 million-year-old dinosaur footprints were found in a restaurant in Sichuan province, China
• 113 million year old dinosaur tracks were seen in Texas due to a severe drought
• In May, Hector the Deinonychus was auctioned off for $12.4 million
• In July, a Gorgosaurus skeleton was auctioned off for about $6 million
• The University of New Mexico opened a Natural History Science Center
• Portland, Oregon had a cartoon dinosaur art exhibit this summer
• Dinosaur Museum Altmühltal in Denkendorf, Germany had Little Al on display
• The Royal Tyrrell Museum launched the exhibit “Perspectives on the Art of Glen McIntosh”
• Hong Kong Science Museum opened “The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: The Big Eight — Dinosaur Revelation” exhibit
• New public science project Cretaceous Creatures lets 8th graders do real science with real fossils

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Dinosaur of the day Foraminacephale, a pachycephalosaurid that only weighed about as much as a small dog.

Interview with Skye Walker, a paleontologist, fossil preparator collections assistant at Auburn University Museum of Natural History, and science communicator. Follow her on Instagram, twitter, & tiktok @thedinomancer.

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Dinosaur of the day Unescoceratops, a ceratopsian named after the UNESCO World Heritage Site it was found in (Dinosaur Provincial Park).

Interview with Evan Johnson-Ransom, a PhD student at the Ross Lab and Sereno Lab at the University of Chicago, studying neck kinematics and feeding behavior of spinosaurids, T. rex, and other theropods. Follow him on twitter @EJR_Paleo_MSc

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