2023 Has Been A Good Year For New Dinosaur Discoveries

Paleontologists continue to challenge our understanding of dinosaurs. Here are a few of the new dinosaurs (and one mosasaur) discovered so far this year.

By Avery Hurt
Oct 10, 2023 1:00 PM
Top-Down View: Two Great Paleontologists Cleaning Newly Discovered Dinosaur Skeleton. Archeologists Discover Fossil Remains of New Species.
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Experts estimate that a new species of dinosaur is named every two weeks. While there is debate about whether these are all new species or, in some cases, previously discovered species being given new names, it's clear that there are a lot of dinosaur fossils out there. Scientists are digging them up and identifying them at a ferocious pace. As Riley Black, paleontologist and science writer, put it in a 2019 article in The New Scientist, we are in a "golden era of dinosaur discovery."

Here are a few — just a few — of the exciting finds so far in this year of the golden era. 

Iani smithi: Last of its Kind

(Credit:Jorge Gonzalez)CC BY-NC Iani Smithi
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