Episode 461: Four new theropods including abelisaurids and a deinocheirid! A pair of abelisaurids from the latest Cretaceous of Morocco, a new deinocheirid from Early Cretaceous Japan, and a long-legged possibly flightless bird from Jurassic of China

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Dinosaur of the day Aletopelta, an ankylosaur with a pair of spikes sticking straight up from its shoulders that was found in San Diego County, California.

In dinosaur news this week:

A new Early Cretaceous deinocheirid from Japan, Tyrannomimus fukuiensis, helps fill in the very early evolution of dinosaurs that eventually led to Deinocheirus
Paleontologists found two new abelisaurids in Morocco—helping to fill in details of the mostly unknown latest Cretaceous of Africa
There’s a new early bird-like dinosaur (an anchiornithid avialan) with "bizarre" long legs

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Four new dinosaurs including a new early bird-liked dino with very long legs