A new tiny-armed, gigantic, megapredator

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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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