I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast1 Okt 2025

The Best Discovery of the Year!

A new Spicomellus find reveals just how crazy its armor was. Plus Six brand new sauropods!

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Dinosaur of the day Liaoningosaurus, a small ankylosaur that may or may not have been semi-aquatic and carnivorous.

In dinosaur news this week:

A much more complete Spicomellus skeleton was found with some of the strangest and most elaborate armor ever seen
There’s a new sauropodomorph species, Xingxiulong yueorum, which is quite a bit bigger than the previous species from the genus
The oldest known sauropodomorph from East Asia, Wudingloong wui, was just described
There’s a new eusauropod, Huashanosaurus qini, named for famous mountain with impressive rock art
There’s a new mamenchisaurid sauropod, Tongnanlong zhimingi, which is estimated to be over 80ft long
There’s a new rebbachisaurid (vacuum cleaner head) sauropod, Cienciargentina sanchezi, from Patagonia
There’s another new rebbachisaurid, Astigmasaura genuflexa, measuring in at about 59ft (18m) long and weighing over 10 tons

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