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  Jurassic Park Cast

  Dinosaurs Lately - Eusauropods (Summer 2026)

  Jul 27, 202640 min

  Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately. The goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast . If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date. Episode 11 - Eusauropods (Summer 2026) . ( stream it here ) Eusauropod news: Upchurch, Paul. (1995). “The Evolutionary History of Sauropod Dinosaurs.” Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 349. 10.1098/rstb.1995.0125. Gomez, K.L., Pol, D., Ezcurra, M.D. and Carballido, J.L. (2025), Osteology of the appendicular skeleton of Bagualia alba (Dinosauria, Eusauropoda) from the Lower Jurassic of Patagonia and the macroevolutionary history of early eusauropods. Cladistics, 41: 70-103. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12607 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cla.12607 Gomez, K.L.; Paulina-Carabajal, A.; Pol, D.; & Carballido, J.L. (2025). “Contributions to the sensory palaeobiology of Sauropodomorpha from the study of the endocranium of the Early Jurassic eusauropod Bagualia alba.” Papers in Palaeontology 11(3): e70023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70023 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70023 Romilio, A., & Runnegar, B. (2026). Earliest Australian dinosaur: ichnofossils from the Carnian Aspley Formation of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 50(1), 404–415. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2025.2607630 Kevin L. Gomez (2025). “Sauropodan niche partition during the Early Jurassic of Patagonia, Argentina.” Historical Biology, 38(2), 534-547. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2504506 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2504506 Gomez, K. L. (2026). Sauropodan niche partition during the Early Jurassic of Patagonia, Argentina. Historical Biology, 38(2), 534–547. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2504506 Kevin L. Gomez, José L. Carballido & Diego Pol. (2025) Dental replacement patterns and morphological diversity in lower Jurassic sauropods from the Cañadón Asfalto Basin, Patagonia, Argentina . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 45:5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2504506 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2504506 Mo Jinyou, Zhou Xiuzhen, Fu Qiongyao, Xiong Duo, Hu Minhang & Xu Xing (2025). “A New Eusauropod Dinosaur from the Lower and Middle Jurassic Wangmen Formation of Ningming County, Guangxi, South China.” ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA (English edition) 99(4): 909-924. DOI:10.1111/1755-6724.15331 https://www.geojournals.cn/dzxbcn/dzxbcn/article/abstract/2025endzxb04001 Ning Li, Xiaoqin Zhang, Xinxin Ren, Daqing Li & Hailu You (2025). “A new eusauropod (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from the Middle Jurassic of Gansu, China.” Scientific Reports 15: 17936 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-03210-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-03210-5 Xiao-Qin Zhang, Ya-Ming Wang, Zhen-Ji Wang, Yan-Chao Wang, Tao Wang, Guo-Fu Wang, Yi Zou, Qi-Xing Dong, Xing Su, Hua Jiang, Yan-Jun Wang & Hai-Lu You (2026). “The first turiasaurian sauropod (Dinosauria: Eusauropoda) from East Asia.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 206(2): zlaf201 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf201 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/206/2/zlaf201/8456546 Triparna Ghosh, Matthew T. Carrano, Advait M. Jukar, Edward L. Stanley, Krishna Kumar & Sunil Bajpai (2026). “A new turiasaur (Dinosauria, Eusauropoda) specimen from the Middle Jurassic of India.” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2618183. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2026.2618183 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2026.2618183 D. Cary Woodruff, Paul M. Barrett, Driss Ouarhache, Abdessalam El Khanchoufi, Khadija Boumir, Kawtar Ech-Charay, Ahmed Oussou, Richard J. Butler, Simon Wills, Luke Meade, Mike Smith, and Susannah C.R. Maidment (2025). “Teeth from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco reveal the oldest turiasaurian sauropods from Africa.” Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(3): 411-420 doi:10.4202/app.01214.2024 https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012142024.html Daniela E. Winkler, Emanuel Tschopp, André Saleiro, Ria Wiesinger & Thomas M. Kaiser (2025). "Dental microwear texture analysis reveals behavioural, ecological and habitat signals in Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur faunas." Nature Ecology & Evolution (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02794-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02794-5 John Foster, Cary Woodruff & Rafael Royo-Torres (2026). “The first evidence of Turiasauria (Sauropod) in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation.” In New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102, January 2026. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399997199_THE_FIRST_EVIDENCE_OF_TURIASAURIA_SAUROPODA_IN_THE_UPPER_JURASSIC_MORRISON_FORMATION (Accessed July 17, 2026). Geto Boys (1992). “Geto Boys - Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta (video) [Explicit] from 'Uncut Dope' (1992).” UPROXX, September 30, 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IJCFc_qkHw&list=RD6IJCFc_qkHw&start_radio=1 (Accessed July 27, 2026). Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/ Intro: eye patch, and the Outro: you don't know how sad i am. Would you like a copy of Ankylosaurs: Head to Tail, Triceratops and Protoceratops, Tyrannosaurus, or the Eusauropod .pdfs? Drop me a line! Dinosaurs Lately is a companion show to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the podcast where guests chat with me about Michael Cricthon’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. If you’d like to be a guest on that show, you can reach me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com . These podcasts are part of the Spring Chickens banner of amateur intellectual properties including the Spring Chickens funny pages, Tomb of the Undead graphic novel, the Second Lapse graphic novelettes, The Infantry , and the worst of it all, the King St. Capers . You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com and you can connect and follow on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers , on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast”, on Tumblr @misterrogers22 on X at @RogersRyan22 or on BlueSky at ‪ @rogersryan22.bsky.social . Thanks for tuning in! I hope you feel you’re all caught up on eusauropods … for now! Until next time!

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  Episode #85

  Dinosaurs Lately - Stegosaurs (Spring 2026)

  May 10, 202650 min

  Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately. The goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast . If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date. Episode 10 - Stegosaurs (Spring 2026) . ( stream it here ) Stegosaur news: Zafaty, O., M. Oukassou, F. Riguetti, J. Company, S. Bendrioua, R. Tabuce, A. Charrière, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2024. A new stegosaurian dinosaur (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) with a remarkable dermal armour from the Middle Jurassic of North Africa. Gondwana Research advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2024.03.009 Omar Ait Haddou, Abdelkbir Hminna, Abdelouahed Lagnaoui, Hendrik Klein, Mohamed Arouch, Mohamed Fergougui, Aziz Rmich & Wahiba Bel Haouz (2026). “New dinosaur tracksites from the Middle-?Late Jurassic of Msemrir (Central High Atlas, Morocco).” Historical Biology (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2596117 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2596117 Evan T. Saitta, Vincent Bonhomme, Mitchell Lukens, Daniel Vidal, Nicholas R. Longrich, Dean R. Richmond, Maximilian T. Stockdale. The function and Evolution of Stegosaur Osteoderms and Hypothesized Sexual Dimorphism in Hesperosaurus. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.10.648273 Sergio Sánchez-Fenollosa & Alberto Cobos (2025). “New insights into the phylogeny and skull evolution of stegosaurian dinosaurs: An extraordinary cranium from the European Late Jurassic (Dinosauria: Stegosauria).” Vertebrate Zoology 75: 165-189. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.75.e146618 https://vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/146618/ Francisco Costa Pinto, Susannah Maidment, Cristina Sequero & Vicente D. Crespo (2025). “Miragaia longicollum MG 4863: New fossil and historical evidence from the most complete stegosaur from Europe.” Comunicações Geológicas 112(I): 35-58. doi: https://doi.org/10.34637/xs1n-3d27 https://repositorio.lneg.pt/entities/publication/97e1df73-0734-45d7-b75d-bf4cf012f252 Kenneth Carpenter (2026). “The smallest known Stegosaurus.” In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 283-285 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400035283_2026_Carpenter_Smallest_Stegosaurus Rebecca K. Hunt-Foster, D. Cary Woodruff, Steven D. Sroka, and John R. Foster (2026). “The largest reported stegosaurid from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic).” In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 287-292. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400050523_THE_LARGEST_REPORTED_STEGOSAURID_FROM_THE_MORRISON_FORMATION_UPPER_JURASSIC Costa, Francisco (2026). “Dacentrurine Stegosaurs in North America: New Occurrences from the Upper Jurassic of USA (Morrison Formation).” Diversity 18(3): 143 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d18030143 https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18/3/143 Sánchez-Fenollosa, Sergio, Escaso, Fernando & Cobos, Alberto (2024). “A new specimen of Dacentrurus armatus Owen, 1875 (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic of Spain and its taxonomic relevance in the European stegosaurian diversity.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlae074. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae074 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae074/7696911 Facundo Javier Riguetti, Sebastián Apesteguía, Juan Ignacio Canale & Pablo Ariel Gallina (2026). “New thyreophoran remains with stegosaurian affinities from the Lower Cretaceous of Argentina.” / “Nuevos restos fósiles con afinidades estegosaurianas del Cretácico Inferior de Argentina.” Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 26(1): 56-79. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5710/PEAPA.25.11.2025.551 https://peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/551 Jia, L., Li, N., Dong, L., Shi, J., Kang, Z., Wang, S., … You, H. (2024). A new stegosaur from the late Early Cretaceous of Zuoyun, Shanxi Province, China. Historical Biology, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2024.2308214 Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/ Intro: rosie girl , and the Outro: i wanna see a ufo. Would you like a copy of Ankylosaurs: Head to Tail? Would you like to request which family of dinosaurs I cover next? Drop me a line! Dinosaurs Lately is a companion show to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the podcast where guests chat with me about Michael Cricthon’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. If you’d like to be a guest on that show, you can reach me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com . These podcasts are part of the Spring Chickens banner of amateur intellectual properties including the Spring Chickens funny pages, Tomb of the Undead graphic novel, the Second Lapse graphic novelettes, The Infantry , and the worst of it all, the King St. Capers . You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com and you can connect and follow on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers , on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast”, on Tumblr @misterrogers22 on X at @RogersRyan22 or on BlueSky at ‪ @rogersryan22.bsky.social . Thanks for tuning in! I hope you feel you’re all caught up on stegosaurs … for now! Until next time!

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  Episode #84

  Dinosaurs Lately - Avialans (Winter 2026) Part 2

  Mar 16, 202637 min

  Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately. The goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast . If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date. Episode 9 - Avialans (Winter 2026) Parts 1 and 2 . Avialan news: Jingmai O’Connor (2025). “8. The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds.” In: Scott V. Edwards, and J. Michael Reed (eds), New Perspectives in Ornithology: 21st Century Dispatches across the World of Birds; New York, 2026; online edn, Oxford Academic: 139–168. Evan T Saitta, Lilja Carden, Jonathan S Mitchell & Peter J Makovicky (2025). “Feather Evolution Following Flight Loss In Crown Group Birds: Relaxed Selection And Developmental Constraints.” Evolution, qpaf020. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf020 https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpaf020/7997201 Takumi Watanabe, Fernando E. Novas, Tatsuya Hirasawa (2026). “Evolution of the Jaw Joint and Middle Ear Morphologies in the Lineage Towards Birds.” Zoological Science 43(1): doi: https://doi.org/10.2108/zs250108 https://bioone.org/journals/zoological-science/volume-43/issue-1/zs250108/Evolution-of-the-Jaw-Joint-and-Middle-Ear-Morphologies-in/10.2108/zs250108.full Wang Min, Wang Xiao-Li, Zheng Xiao-Ting & Zhou Zhong-He (2024). “Cranial anatomy of Anchiornis huxleyi (Theropoda: Paraves) sheds new light on bird skull evolution.” Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication). DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.241225 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387743760_Cranial_anatomy_of_Anchiornis_huxleyi_Theropoda_Paraves_sheds_new_light_on_bird_skull_evolution Yosef Kiat, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Yan Wang & Jingmai O’Connor (2025). “Wing morphology of Anchiornis huxleyi and the evolution of molt strategies in paravian dinosaurs.” Communications Biology 8: 1633 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09019-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-09019-2 Runsheng Chen, Min Wang, Liping Dong, Guowu Zhou, Xing Xu, Ke Deng, Liming Xu, Chi Zhang, Linchang. Wang, Honggang Du, Ganmin Lin, Min Lin & Zhonghe Zhou (2025). “Earliest short-tailed bird from the Late Jurassic of China.” Nature 638(8050): 441–448. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08410-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08410-z Jingmai K. O’Connor, Alexander D. Clark, Pei-Chen Kuo, Min Wang, Akiko Shinya, Constance Van Beek & Huali Chang (2025). “Avian features of Archaeopteryx feeding apparatus reflect elevated demands of flight.” The Innovation (advance online publication). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2025.101086 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666675825002899 Jingmai O’Connor, Alexander Clark, Pei-Chen Kuo, Yosef Kiat, Matteo Fabbri, Akiko Shinya, Constance Van Beek, Jing Lu, Min Wang & Han Hu (2025). “Chicago Archaeopteryx informs on the early evolution of the avian bauplan.” Nature (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08912-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08912-4 Shaoyuan Wu, Ziqi Tao, Liang Liu, Charles R Marshall, Scott V Edwards, Zhonghe Zhou & Frank E Rheindt (2025). “New Fossils Imply a Deeper Origin of Modern Birds in the Mesozoic.” National Science Review, nwaf238. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf238 https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaf238/8158921 Sergio M. Nebreda, Luis M. Chiappe, Guillermo Navalón, Javier C. Terol, Francisco J. Serrano, Ángela D. Buscalioni & Jesús Marugán-Lobón (2026). “An isolated skull from Las Hoyas (Early Cretaceous, Spain) informs the early evolution towards elongated rostra in enantiornithine birds (Aves, Ornithothoraces).” Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145: 251-265 doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/sjp.145.182813 https://sjp.pensoft.net/article/182813/ Wang, X., A.D. Clark, J.K. O'Connor, X. Zhang, X. Wang, X. Zheng, and Z. Zhou (2024). “First edentulous enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol avifauna.” Cretaceous Research advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105867 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667124000405 Zhiheng Li, Jinsheng Hu, Thomas A Stidham, Mao Ye, Min Wang, Yanhong Pan, Tao Zhao, Jingshu Li, Zhonghe Zhou & Julia A Clarke (2025). “Iridescent structural coloration in a crested Cretaceous enantiornithine bird from the Jehol Biota.” eLife 14: RP103628 doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.103628.3 https://elifesciences.org/articles/103628 Wang, M., & Zhou, Z. (2019). A new enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) with completely fused premaxillae from the Early Cretaceous of China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 17(15), 1299–1312. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2018.1527403 Caizhi Shen, Alexander D. Clark, Hui Fang, Shaokun Chen, Hongxia Jiang, Qiang Ji & Jingmai K. O’Connor (2024). “A new diminutive species of bohaiornithid enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Group, northern China.” Scientific Reports 14: 31363 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-82869-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-82869-8 Jingmai O’Connor, Xiaoli Wang, Alexander Clark, Pei-Chen Kuo, Ryan Davila, Yan Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, and Zhonghe Zhou (2025). “A new small-bodied longipterygid (Aves: Enantiornithes) from the Aptian Jiufotang Formation preserving unusual gastroliths.” Palaeontologia Electronica 28(3): a56. doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1589 https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5712-longipterygid-enantiornithine-chromeornis Jingmai K. O’Connor, Jessie Atterholt, Alexander D. Clark, Linqi Zhou, Cuo Peng, Xiaoqin Zhang & Hailu You (2025). “A new enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Xiagou Formation with unusually short pubes.” Geobios (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2024.11.003 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016699525000166 Matthieu Chotard, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Thomas G. Kaye, Maxime Grosmougin, Luke Barlow, Martin Kundrát, T. Alexander Dececchi, Michael B. Habib, Juned Zariwala, Scott Hartman, Xing Xu & Michael Pittman (2025). “New information on the Hind limb feathering, soft tissues and skeleton of Microraptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae).” BMC Ecology and Evolution 25: 37 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02372-0 https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-025-02372-0 Csaba Hefler, Ying Wang, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Thomas G. Kaye, Maxime Grosmougin, Matthieu Chotard, Luke Barlow, Huih Qiuf, T. Alexander Dececchi, Michael B. Habib, Wei Shyy, and Michael Pittmann (2026). “Microraptor reveals specialized gliding capabilities in multiwinged early paravians.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(6): e2518106123 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518106123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2518106123 Hyemin Jo, Jongyun Jung, Minguk Kim, Min Huh & Julia A. Clarke (2026). “Description of the first Mesozoic bird eggs from Korea and a new mid-cretaceous theropod-dominated egg locality.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113653 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.113653 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018226001161 Luis M. Chiappe, Guillermo Navalón, Agustín G. Martinelli, Ismar de Souza Carvalho, Rodrigo Miloni Santucci, Yun-Hsin Wu & Daniel J. Field (2024). “Cretaceous bird from Brazil informs the evolution of the avian skull and brain.” Nature (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08114-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08114-4 Matías J. Motta, Federico L. Agnolín, Federico Brissón Egli, Sebastián Rozadilla & Fernando E. Novas (2025). “Phylogenetic relationships of Unenlagiidae among Paraves (Dinosauria).” Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2529608. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2025.2529608 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2025.2529608 Ignacio Díaz-Martínez, Sofía Urzagasti-Torres, Paolo Citton, Matteo Belvedere & Silvina de Valais (2025). “The Holotypes of Patagonichornis venetiorum Casamiquela 1996 and Tridigitichnus inopinatus Casamiquela 1996 Vertebrate Ichnotaxa (Late Cretaceous, Patagonia): History and Patrimonial Significance.” Geoheritage 17: 161 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-025-01211-4 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12371-025-01211-4 Clark AD, Atterholt J, Scannella JB, Carroll N, O’Connor JK (2024). “New enantiornithine diversity in the Hell Creek Formation and the functional morphology of the avisaurid tarsometatarsus.” PLoS ONE 19(10): e0310686. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310686 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0310686 Christopher R. Torres, Julia A. Clarke, Joseph R. Groenke, Matthew C. Lamanna, Ross D. E. MacPhee, Grace M. Musser, Eric M. Roberts & Patrick M. O’Connor (2025). “Cretaceous Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity.” Nature 638: 146–151 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08390-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08390-0 \ Facundo Irazoqui, Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, Ariana Paulina-Carabajal, Paula Bona and Nahuel Vega (2026). “New Species of Vegavis (Neornithes) from Antarctica Highlights Unexpected Cretaceous Antarctic Diversity.” Diversity 18(2): 82. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d18020082 https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18/2/82 Milagros Torres Etchegorry & Federico J. Degrange (2024). “Insights into Argentavis magnificens (Aves, Teratornithidae) lifestyle based on neuroanatomy.” Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14184 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14184 Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/ Part 1 Intro: Black Licorice, and the Outro: Supergroovy. Part 2 Intro: all i really want is you, and the Outro: everything just kinda sucks Would you like a copy of Ankylosaurs: Head to Tail? Would you like to request which family of dinosaurs I cover next? Do you like the new format where the episodes are divided into smaller lengths? Drop me a line! Dinosaurs Lately is a companion show to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the podcast where guests chat with me about Michael Cricthon’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. If you’d like to be a guest on that show, you can reach me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com . These podcasts are part of the Spring Chickens banner of amateur intellectual properties including the Spring Chickens funny pages, Tomb of the Undead graphic novel, the Second Lapse graphic novelettes, The Infantry , and the worst of it all, the King St. Capers . You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com and you can connect and follow on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers , on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast”, on Tumblr @misterrogers22 on X at @RogersRyan22 or on BlueSky at ‪ @rogersryan22.bsky.social . Thanks for tuning in! I hope you feel you’re all caught up on avialans … for now! Until next time!

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  Episode #83

  Dinosaurs Lately - Avialans (Winter 2026) Part 1

  Mar 16, 202653 min

  Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately. The goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast . If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date. Episode 9 - Avialans (Winter 2026) Parts 1 and 2 . Avialan news: Jingmai O’Connor (2025). “8. The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds.” In: Scott V. Edwards, and J. Michael Reed (eds), New Perspectives in Ornithology: 21st Century Dispatches across the World of Birds; New York, 2026; online edn, Oxford Academic: 139–168. Evan T Saitta, Lilja Carden, Jonathan S Mitchell & Peter J Makovicky (2025). “Feather Evolution Following Flight Loss In Crown Group Birds: Relaxed Selection And Developmental Constraints.” Evolution, qpaf020. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf020 https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpaf020/7997201 Takumi Watanabe, Fernando E. Novas, Tatsuya Hirasawa (2026). “Evolution of the Jaw Joint and Middle Ear Morphologies in the Lineage Towards Birds.” Zoological Science 43(1): doi: https://doi.org/10.2108/zs250108 https://bioone.org/journals/zoological-science/volume-43/issue-1/zs250108/Evolution-of-the-Jaw-Joint-and-Middle-Ear-Morphologies-in/10.2108/zs250108.full Wang Min, Wang Xiao-Li, Zheng Xiao-Ting & Zhou Zhong-He (2024). “Cranial anatomy of Anchiornis huxleyi (Theropoda: Paraves) sheds new light on bird skull evolution.” Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication). DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.241225 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387743760_Cranial_anatomy_of_Anchiornis_huxleyi_Theropoda_Paraves_sheds_new_light_on_bird_skull_evolution Yosef Kiat, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Yan Wang & Jingmai O’Connor (2025). “Wing morphology of Anchiornis huxleyi and the evolution of molt strategies in paravian dinosaurs.” Communications Biology 8: 1633 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09019-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-09019-2 Runsheng Chen, Min Wang, Liping Dong, Guowu Zhou, Xing Xu, Ke Deng, Liming Xu, Chi Zhang, Linchang. Wang, Honggang Du, Ganmin Lin, Min Lin & Zhonghe Zhou (2025). “Earliest short-tailed bird from the Late Jurassic of China.” Nature 638(8050): 441–448. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08410-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08410-z Jingmai K. O’Connor, Alexander D. Clark, Pei-Chen Kuo, Min Wang, Akiko Shinya, Constance Van Beek & Huali Chang (2025). “Avian features of Archaeopteryx feeding apparatus reflect elevated demands of flight.” The Innovation (advance online publication). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2025.101086 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666675825002899 Jingmai O’Connor, Alexander Clark, Pei-Chen Kuo, Yosef Kiat, Matteo Fabbri, Akiko Shinya, Constance Van Beek, Jing Lu, Min Wang & Han Hu (2025). “Chicago Archaeopteryx informs on the early evolution of the avian bauplan.” Nature (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08912-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08912-4 Shaoyuan Wu, Ziqi Tao, Liang Liu, Charles R Marshall, Scott V Edwards, Zhonghe Zhou & Frank E Rheindt (2025). “New Fossils Imply a Deeper Origin of Modern Birds in the Mesozoic.” National Science Review, nwaf238. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf238 https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaf238/8158921 Sergio M. Nebreda, Luis M. Chiappe, Guillermo Navalón, Javier C. Terol, Francisco J. Serrano, Ángela D. Buscalioni & Jesús Marugán-Lobón (2026). “An isolated skull from Las Hoyas (Early Cretaceous, Spain) informs the early evolution towards elongated rostra in enantiornithine birds (Aves, Ornithothoraces).” Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145: 251-265 doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/sjp.145.182813 https://sjp.pensoft.net/article/182813/ Wang, X., A.D. Clark, J.K. O'Connor, X. Zhang, X. Wang, X. Zheng, and Z. Zhou (2024). “First edentulous enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol avifauna.” Cretaceous Research advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105867 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667124000405 Zhiheng Li, Jinsheng Hu, Thomas A Stidham, Mao Ye, Min Wang, Yanhong Pan, Tao Zhao, Jingshu Li, Zhonghe Zhou & Julia A Clarke (2025). “Iridescent structural coloration in a crested Cretaceous enantiornithine bird from the Jehol Biota.” eLife 14: RP103628 doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.103628.3 https://elifesciences.org/articles/103628 Wang, M., & Zhou, Z. (2019). A new enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) with completely fused premaxillae from the Early Cretaceous of China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 17(15), 1299–1312. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2018.1527403 Caizhi Shen, Alexander D. Clark, Hui Fang, Shaokun Chen, Hongxia Jiang, Qiang Ji & Jingmai K. O’Connor (2024). “A new diminutive species of bohaiornithid enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Group, northern China.” Scientific Reports 14: 31363 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-82869-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-82869-8 Jingmai O’Connor, Xiaoli Wang, Alexander Clark, Pei-Chen Kuo, Ryan Davila, Yan Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, and Zhonghe Zhou (2025). “A new small-bodied longipterygid (Aves: Enantiornithes) from the Aptian Jiufotang Formation preserving unusual gastroliths.” Palaeontologia Electronica 28(3): a56. doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1589 https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5712-longipterygid-enantiornithine-chromeornis Jingmai K. O’Connor, Jessie Atterholt, Alexander D. Clark, Linqi Zhou, Cuo Peng, Xiaoqin Zhang & Hailu You (2025). “A new enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Xiagou Formation with unusually short pubes.” Geobios (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2024.11.003 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016699525000166 Matthieu Chotard, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Thomas G. Kaye, Maxime Grosmougin, Luke Barlow, Martin Kundrát, T. Alexander Dececchi, Michael B. Habib, Juned Zariwala, Scott Hartman, Xing Xu & Michael Pittman (2025). “New information on the Hind limb feathering, soft tissues and skeleton of Microraptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae).” BMC Ecology and Evolution 25: 37 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02372-0 https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-025-02372-0 Csaba Hefler, Ying Wang, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Thomas G. Kaye, Maxime Grosmougin, Matthieu Chotard, Luke Barlow, Huih Qiuf, T. Alexander Dececchi, Michael B. Habib, Wei Shyy, and Michael Pittmann (2026). “Microraptor reveals specialized gliding capabilities in multiwinged early paravians.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(6): e2518106123 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518106123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2518106123 Hyemin Jo, Jongyun Jung, Minguk Kim, Min Huh & Julia A. Clarke (2026). “Description of the first Mesozoic bird eggs from Korea and a new mid-cretaceous theropod-dominated egg locality.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113653 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.113653 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018226001161 Luis M. Chiappe, Guillermo Navalón, Agustín G. Martinelli, Ismar de Souza Carvalho, Rodrigo Miloni Santucci, Yun-Hsin Wu & Daniel J. Field (2024). “Cretaceous bird from Brazil informs the evolution of the avian skull and brain.” Nature (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08114-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08114-4 Matías J. Motta, Federico L. Agnolín, Federico Brissón Egli, Sebastián Rozadilla & Fernando E. Novas (2025). “Phylogenetic relationships of Unenlagiidae among Paraves (Dinosauria).” Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2529608. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2025.2529608 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2025.2529608 Ignacio Díaz-Martínez, Sofía Urzagasti-Torres, Paolo Citton, Matteo Belvedere & Silvina de Valais (2025). “The Holotypes of Patagonichornis venetiorum Casamiquela 1996 and Tridigitichnus inopinatus Casamiquela 1996 Vertebrate Ichnotaxa (Late Cretaceous, Patagonia): History and Patrimonial Significance.” Geoheritage 17: 161 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-025-01211-4 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12371-025-01211-4 Clark AD, Atterholt J, Scannella JB, Carroll N, O’Connor JK (2024). “New enantiornithine diversity in the Hell Creek Formation and the functional morphology of the avisaurid tarsometatarsus.” PLoS ONE 19(10): e0310686. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310686 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0310686 Christopher R. Torres, Julia A. Clarke, Joseph R. Groenke, Matthew C. Lamanna, Ross D. E. MacPhee, Grace M. Musser, Eric M. Roberts & Patrick M. O’Connor (2025). “Cretaceous Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity.” Nature 638: 146–151 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08390-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08390-0 \ Facundo Irazoqui, Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, Ariana Paulina-Carabajal, Paula Bona and Nahuel Vega (2026). “New Species of Vegavis (Neornithes) from Antarctica Highlights Unexpected Cretaceous Antarctic Diversity.” Diversity 18(2): 82. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d18020082 https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18/2/82 Milagros Torres Etchegorry & Federico J. Degrange (2024). “Insights into Argentavis magnificens (Aves, Teratornithidae) lifestyle based on neuroanatomy.” Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14184 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14184 Milagros Torres Etchegorry & Federico J. Degrange (2024). “Insights into Argentavis magnificens (Aves, Teratornithidae) lifestyle based on neuroanatomy.” Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14184 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14184 Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/ Part 1 Intro: Black Licorice, and the Outro: Supergroovy. Part 2 Intro: all i really want is you, and the Outro: everything just kinda sucks Would you like a copy of Ankylosaurs: Head to Tail? Would you like to request which family of dinosaurs I cover next? Do you like the new format where the episodes are divided into smaller lengths? Drop me a line! Dinosaurs Lately is a companion show to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the podcast where guests chat with me about Michael Cricthon’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. If you’d like to be a guest on that show, you can reach me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com . These podcasts are part of the Spring Chickens banner of amateur intellectual properties including the Spring Chickens funny pages, Tomb of the Undead graphic novel, the Second Lapse graphic novelettes, The Infantry , and the worst of it all, the King St. Capers . You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com and you can connect and follow on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers , on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast”, on Tumblr @misterrogers22 on X at @RogersRyan22 or on BlueSky at ‪ @rogersryan22.bsky.social . Thanks for tuning in! I hope you feel you’re all caught up on avialans … for now! Until next time!

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  Episode #82

  Dinoasurs Lately - Hadrosauroids (Winter 2026) Part 2

  Jan 30, 202633 min

  Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately. The goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast . If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date. Episode 8 - Hadrosauroids (Winter 2026) Parts 1 and 2 . ( stream it here ) Hadrosauroid news: Longrich, N.R., X. Pereda-Suberbiola, N. Bardet, and N.-E. Jalil. 2024. A new small duckbilled dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Morocco and dinosaur diversity in the late Maastrichtian of North Africa. Scientific Reports 14: 3665. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-53447-9 Nicholas R. Longrich, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola, Nathalie Bardet & Nour-Eddine Jalil (2025) "A new hadrosaurid dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco provides evidence for an African radiation of lambeosaurines." Gondwana Research (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.006 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1342937X2500156X Donghao Wang, Lida Xing, Jordan C. Mallon, Tetsuto Miyashita, Zaoqun Liang, Xianqiu Zhang, Zheng Ren, Zhicong Liang & Minyi Xian (2025). “First occurrence of the duck-billed dinosaur tribe Lambeosaurini (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) in South China.” Historical Biology (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2454652 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2454652 Wenjiang Qiu, Hantang Hua, Kui Zhao, Han Yao, Fenglu Han & Rui Wu (2025) "The first discovery of Stromatoolithus pinglingensis in the Ganzhou Basin and a revision of Paraspheroolithus porcarboris." Historical Biology (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2581783 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2581783 Aaron J van der Reest, S. Andrew DuFrane, Alberto Reyes, Philip J. Currie, and Jenni Scott (2025). “Edmontosaurus from the Rocky Mountain foothills, Alberta, and its chronostratigraphic position in the Late Cretaceous Brazeau Formation and correlative units in western Canada.” Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2023-0001 https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjes-2023-0001 Paul C. Sereno, Evan T. Saitta, Daniel Vidal, Nathan Myhrvold, María Ciudad Real, Stephanie L. Baumgart, Lauren L. Bop, Tyler M. Keillor, Marcus Eriksen, and Kraig Derstler (2025). “Duck-billed dinosaur fleshy midline and hooves reveal terrestrial clay-template “mummification”” Science (advance online publication). DOI: 10.1126/science.adw3536 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw3536 DiPiazzo, Christopher (November 2025). Edmontosaurus: Beast of the Week. In Prehistoric Beast of the Week [blog]. Accessed Jan. 25, 2026. https://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2013/08/anatotitan-prehistoric-animal-of-week.html Henry S. Sharpe, Phil R. Bell, Ian Baylatry, Robin Sissons & Corwin Sullivan (2025). “Re-evaluation of a soft crested Edmontosaurin, with implications for hadrosaurid life appearance and diversity. The Anatomical Record (advance online publication).” doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70098 https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70098 Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/ Part 2 Intro: valentine, and the Outro: destroyer Would you like a copy of Ankylosaurs: Head to Tail? Would you like to request which family of dinosaurs I cover next? Do you like the new format where the episodes are divided into smaller lengths? Drop me a line! Dinosaurs Lately is a companion show to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the podcast where guests chat with me about Michael Cricthon’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. If you’d like to be a guest on that show, you can reach me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com . These podcasts are part of the Spring Chickens banner of amateur intellectual properties including the Spring Chickens funny pages, Tomb of the Undead graphic novel, the Second Lapse graphic novelettes, The Infantry , and the worst of it all, the King St. Capers . You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com and you can connect and follow on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers , on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast”, on Tumblr @misterrogers22 on X at @RogersRyan22 or on BlueSky at ‪ @rogersryan22.bsky.social . Thanks for tuning in! I hope you feel you’re all caught up on hadrosauroids … for now! Until next time!

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