Top 24 Dinosaur Discoveries of 2024

A huge year for stegosaurs and theropods!

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Dinosaur of the day Yinlong, one of the earliest known ceratopsians.

Our top stories of 2024:

• Best new tyrannosaur: Asiatyrannus
• Best new tyrannosaur (runner up): Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis
• Best new titanosaur: Bustingorrytitan
• Best new titanosaur (runner up): Qunkasaura
• Best new ankylosaur: Datai
• Best new abelisaur: Koleken
• Best new ceratopsian: Lokiceratops
• Best new (maybe) burrowing dinosaur: Fona
• Best new ornithopod (most complete found in UK in 100 years): Comptonatus
• Best new theropod brow: Alpkarakush
• Best sauropod vertebra (and best rebbachisaurid): Sidersaura
• Best new rebbachisaurid (runner up): Campananeyen
• Best noasaurid theropod: Kiyacursor
• Best new caenagnathid: Eoneophron
• Best new sleeping dinosaur: Hypnovenator
• Most basal rhabdodontomorph ornithopod: Emiliasaura
• Best new silesaurid: Gondwanax
• Most expanded dinosaur group: Stegosauria. Including: Thyreosaurus, Baiyinosaurus, Angustungui, & Yanbeilong
• Coolest discovery story: Musankwa
• Most tenacious fossil: Ardetosaurus
• Most exciting new Mesozoic bird: Shuilingornis
• Best bird names: Avisaurus ("bird lizard") and Magnusavis ("big bird")
• Fastest name change: "Jingjia" renamed Jingiella
• Garret's favorite Dinosaur Connection Challenge: bubonic plague
• Best paleopathology study: South American theropods
• Best paleopathology study (runner up): Plateosaurus
• Oldest known paleontology (maybe): 10,000 year old petroglyphs
• Best friendly sauropodomorph study: Lufengosaurus
• Best new spinosaurid: Riojavenatrix
• Spinosaur diving and hunting/swimming update
• Spinosaur skull shapes
• Spinosaurs had skull and teeth to go after large prey
• Best new tyrannosaur paper: Gorgosaurus gut contents
• Nanotyrannus update
• T. rex intelligence estimation

 

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