Grab your little spade and brush and let's dig into Episode 15: The Tiny Shadow with the Monster Skull

We are standing in a quiet dig site in the misty hills of northern Spain, near a place called Vegagete in Burgos Province. Years ago, a local paleontologist named Fidel Fernández-Baldor is carefully brushing away dirt when he uncovers something strange—tiny bones, delicate as twigs. At first glance, they look like the leftovers of baby dinosaurs, maybe young relatives of those big, famous plant-eaters like Iguanodon. But something about them feels… off. Too perfect. Too complete for scraps....

Sources 

•  Original scientific paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70057

•  ScienceDaily summary: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260203030521.htm

•  Sci.News article: https://www.sci.news/paleontology/foskeia-pelendonum-14526.html

•  Scientific American feature: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-chicken-sized-dinosaur-baffles-paleontologists/

•  Phys.org coverage: https://phys.org/news/2026-01-tiny-dinosaur-foskeia-pelendonum-evolutionary.html

•  Discover Magazine: https://www.discovermagazine.com/unusually-small-dinosaur-fossil-helps-fill-a-70-million-year-gap-in-ornithopod-evolution-48629

•  Vrije Universiteit Brussel press release (via EurekAlert): https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1114694

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