Top 23 Dinosaur Discoveries of 2023

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Dinosaur of the day Elopteryx, a bird like troodontid from what is now Romania (Hateg island) whose name means "marsh wing".

Our top 23 segments of 2023 (with a bonus):

• Best hadrosauroid: Gonkoken
• Cutest new dinosaur: Minimocursor
• Best sauropod tail: Ruixinia
• Best sauropod neck: Inawentu
• Most forgotten dinosaur: Oblitosaurus
• Most forgotten sauropod: Igai
• Best new ankylosaur: Patagopelta
• Biggest impact from a small fragment: Amanasaurus
• Best new ceratopsid: Furcatoceratops
• Best new ornithomimosaur: Tyrannomimus
• Best basal sauropodomorph: Qianlong
• Best alvarezsaurid: Jaculinykus
• Garret's most popular dinosaur connection: Titanic
• Sabrina's most popular dinosaur connection: Alexander the Great
• Most shared interview: John Holmes on Tolkien's presentation On Dragons
• Most impressive (and controversial) fossil: Repenomamus interlocked with Psittacosaurus
• Best paleopathology: Nodules in an ankylosaur nasal passage
• Paleopathology runner up: Ornithomimosaur with blunt force trauma to its foot
• Paleopathology runner up: T. rex biting through Triceratops frill
• Best ankylosaur paper: Zuul fighting each other
• Dinosaur egg hiding in plain sight: Agate in London
• Biggest disappointment: Therizinosaur claws
• Best mohawk study: Amargasaurus neck spines
• Biggest change to a popular dinosaur: Utahraptor's age

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