Top 22 Dinosaur Discoveries of 2022

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Dinosaur of the day Hanssuesia, a pachycephalosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta that was once considered a troodontid.

Our top stories of 2022:

• Best soft tissue: Dakota the Edmontosaurus mummy
• Best soft tissue honorable mention #1: Dinosaur intestines
• Best soft tissue honorable mention #2: Sauropod skin (goosebumps)
• Best paleopathology study: Dolly the sauropod respiratory infection
• Earliest sauropod of the year: Mbiresaurus
• Largest megaraptorid of the year: Maip
• Keeping the debate going: Torosaurus considered valid
• Biggest movies/shows of the year: Jurassic World: Dominion and Prehistoric Planet
• Most misunderstood dinosaur: Dodo
• Our favorite new segment: The Dinosaur Connection Challenge: Connecting dinosaurs to sandwiches
• Best news for Ubirajara fans in Brazil: Ubirajara returning to Brazil
• Best dinosaur embryo: Baby Yingliang
• Best early thyreophoran: Jakapil
• Best stegosaur: New stegosaur Bashanosaurus
• Furthest reaching dinosaur story: glass beads on the moon from craters that hit earth
• Best T. rex study(s): Presentations at SVP that Tyrannosaurs had tiny arms before they had huge heads
• Smallest sauropod of the year: Ibirania
• Best new herbivore: Stegouros
• Best new herbivore honorable mention: Ankylosaur: Yuxisaurus
• Best new carnivore: New carcharodontosaurid Meraxes
• BONUS: Stromer's Riddle but with mosasaurs

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