Dinosaur fossils that fit on the head of a pin

Dinosaur of the day Chingkankousaurus, a possible tyrannosauroid from eastern China known only from a shoulder blade.

Interview with Phoebe Wood, a primary student from Adelaide, South Australia. She won several awards for her Anchiornis huxleyi model. Including Young Scientist of the Year 2019 and the Oliphant Trophy—a first for a primary school student.

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In dinosaur news this week:News from the final day of talks and posters at the 2019 meeting of the Society of Vertebrate PaleontologyA large varied selection of dinosaur microfossils from the Alaskan Kakanaut Formation show that dinosaurs lived in the arctic year-roundAfter more restoration work, an alternative Allosaurus holotype is ready to be namedSiats and Moros finds show that Allosauroids and Tyrannosauroids coexisted in the cretaceousWe now have an excellent growth series of over 20 Sinornithomimus individuals from ChinaA coprolite “nugget” shows excellent preservation of at least two feather types and likely multiple ticksMore evidence shows that dinosaur diversity was very high up until the end-cretaceous extinctionBy comparing LAGs in arm and leg bones, another study shows that Maiasaura was quadrupedal its whole lifeA new Jurassic ankylosaur was found in PortugalTwo new ceratopsians were discovered in Grand Staircase Escalante National MonumentA new "Super matrix" of crocodilians places some difficult taxa in a cladogramAn analysis of Dimetrodon (not a dinosaur) and its relatives shows the wide range of sizes that they came inThe Tate Geological Museum have found a couple of sauropod feet and a diplodocid skullThe Burke Museum in Washington has a new exhibit called Fossils UncoveredA new animation shows how long dinosaurs lived, by tracing our solar system’s movement through the Milky Way GalaxyHorse Archer Productions has a new web series, A Million Bones of Stone, the first episode is about LaelapsJustice Smith and Daniella Pineda, who played Franklin and Zia, in Fallen Kingdom will be back for Jurassic World 3To get access to lots of patron only content check out https://www.patreon.com/iknowdino

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Chingkankousaurus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Chingkankousaurus-Episode-259/

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