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This episode discusses the discovery of the second dinosaur with a preserved voice box and highlights several new dinosaur species from various locations.

Plus a duck-billed dinosaur with a strong jaw and a couple of small dinosaurs from the the U.S. and Europe Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more. In dinosaur news this week: A New Jurassic neornithischian dinosaur with a Voice Box. Pulaosaurus qinglong, from China’s Tiaojishan Formation, has only the second larynx ever found preserved with a non-avian dinosaur. Source The small ornithischian Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae was found in the Morrison Formation of Colorado. Reminding us that it wasn't just huge sauropods and stegosaurs eating plants in the Late Jurassic. Source A new ornithopod named Obelignathus septimanicus was identified from a stronger jawbone than other Late Cretaceous ornithopods (like Rhabdodon) in what is now southern France. It's name refers to the French comic character Obelix who has superhuman strength (like the "unusually robustly-built" jawbone on Obelignathus). Source An Early Cretaceous basal hadrosauroid, Cariocecus bocagei, was named from Portugal. It had a fused upper jaw and cheekbone, possibly letting it chew tougher plants than its relatives. Source   This episode is brought to…

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Topics covered

• dinosaur discoveries
• paleontology
• Jurassic period
• Cretaceous period
• dinosaur anatomy

Keywords

• dinosaur
• voice box
• paleontology
• Jurassic
• Cretaceous
• dinosaur species
• fossils

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Colorado Northwestern Community College

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Cariocecus bocagei, Obelignathus septimanicus, Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, Pulaosaurus qinglong

Places: China, Tiaojishan Formation, Colorado, France, Portugal

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