Episode 461: Four new theropods including abelisaurids and a deinocheirid! A pair of abelisaurids from the latest Cretaceous of Morocco, a new deinocheirid from Early Cretaceous Japan, and a long-legged possibly flightless bird from Jurassic of China

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Dinosaur of the day Aletopelta, an ankylosaur with a pair of spikes sticking straight up from its shoulders that was found in San Diego County, California.

In dinosaur news this week:

• A new Early Cretaceous deinocheirid from Japan, Tyrannomimus fukuiensis, helps fill in the very early evolution of dinosaurs that eventually led to Deinocheirus
• Paleontologists found two new abelisaurids in Morocco—helping to fill in details of the mostly unknown latest Cretaceous of Africa
• There’s a new early bird-like dinosaur (an anchiornithid avialan) with "bizarre" long legs

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