Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska was a Polish scientist and the first woman to lead a dinosaur excavation expedition. On her explorations of the Gobi Desert, she discovered many famous animals, including Deinocheirus—a dinosaur that, for decades, was known only by its enormous, terrifying arms & claws. But when we finally found the rest of its body, it turned out to look more like Jar Jar Binks. This is the story of Zofia, and the dinosaur that surprised us all - as told originally aired on the History Dispatches podcast with Matt and McKinley Breen.

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Zavacephale is both the oldest and most complete pachycephalosaur ever found. Plus three more new dinosaurs and Michele Hollow joins us to discuss Mary Anning.

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Dinosaur of the day Stenopelix, a small (likely) ceratopsian that we only know from impressions in sandstone slabs.

Interview with Michele Hollow, an award-winning journalist, and author of the book “Jurassic Girl: The Adventures of Mary Anning, Paleontologist and the First Female Fossil Hunter”, a historical fiction book for both young and less young readers.

In dinosaur news this week:

• The most complete and oldest known pachycephalosaur was discovered and named Zavacephale rinpoche
• There’s a new "thunder dome" pachycephalosaur, Brontotholus harmoni
• There’s a new flat-headed hadrosaur, Ahshislesaurus wimani, that was as large as a T. rex
• There’s a new hadrosaur dinosaur from Morocco named Taleta taleta (yes the genus and species name are the same)

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Plus, a new species of megaraptor, Joaquinraptor casali, is one of the most complete ever found.

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Dinosaur of the day Dromaeosauroides, a theropod we only know from two teeth, and maybe some fossilized poop.

In dinosaur news this week:

• A new megaraptor, Joaquinraptor casali, may have died in the middle of eating a crocodilian
• Analyzing skull mechanics can tell us a lot about different theropod dinosaur feeding strategies
• The alvarezsaur Bannykus ate meat (instead of maybe insects)
• A poor sauropod got gnawed on by a theropod (probably)
• The gut contents of a subadult Diamantinasaurus shows it was not a picky eater and it did not chew its food
• A closer look at coprolites found in the Lameta Formation in India show they were likely pooped out by an omnivorous animal, and not a titanosaur (as previously thought)

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