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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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We correct a lot of the common dinosaurs mistakes in movies, TV shows, toys, games, and art.

Dinosaur of the day Chirostenotes, a toothless oviraptorosaur that was originally known from only its hands.

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Dinosaur of the day Spinops, a ceratopsian whose name means "spine face".

Interview with Oliver Wings and Joschua Knüppe. Joschua is a paleoartist, and host of Paleostream on Twitch. Oliver is the curator of the Geosciences Collections & the Geiseltal Collection at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. The two of them created the graphic novel “Europasaurus: Life on Jurassic Islands”

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Roy Chapman Andrews fought through the Gobi Desert to make some miraculous dinosaur discoveries including Velociraptor, Oviraptor, and some amazing dinosaur nests.

Dinosaur of the day Gravitholus, an ~10ft long pachycephalosaurid that could be the same animal as Stegoceras.

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Dinosaur of the day Mercuriceratops, The oldest known chasmosaurine from Canada found at the time.

Interview with Susannah Maidment, principal researcher and curator of the archosaurs at the Natural History Museum in London. She has published more than 50 scientific papers and is an expert on stegosaurs. Her research includes systematics, anatomy, and taxonomy of ornithischians, geological context of dinosaur evolution, and dinosaur biodiversity.

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Dinosaur of the day Hateg Island, a Late Cretaceous island that included some tiny dinosaurs and at least one enormous pterosaur.

Interview with Michael Benton, paleontologist and professor of vertebrate paleontology in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. He has written over 400 scientific papers and more than 50 books, about a wide range of topics, including animals in the Triassic, extinction events, and the Hateg Basin. His most recent books are “The Dinosaurs Rediscovered" and "Dinosaurs, New visions of a lost world"

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