Top Paleontology Finds of 2023

2023 was a big year for paleontology, with tons of new papers and studies on many diverse topics. Let's look at some of the best and biggest topics in paleontology 2023.
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00:14 Contrasting terrestrial and marine ecospace dynamics after the end-Triassic mass extinction event
royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
01:51 Triassic stem caecilian- Funcusvermis
www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
03:55 New Finds of Scleromochlus
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wil...
05:09 Dromomeron Braincase
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wil...
05:56 New link to pterosaurs- Venetoraptor
www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
06:55 Modern marine ecosystem from 250.8 million years ago
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
08:10 The shift from Nothosaurs to pistosaurs and ichthyosaurs
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
08:59 Earliest Triassic ichthyosaur fossils push back oceanic reptile origins
www.cell.com/current-biology/...
09:33 First Filter feeding in Triassic- Hupehsuchus
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com...
10:03 The largest whale- Perucetus
www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
10:48 The smallest whale- Tutcetus
www.nature.com/articles/s4200...
11:07 Another new whale- Olympicetus
peerj.com/articles/15576/
11:38 New ancient dolphins- Xenorophus sloanii and Xenorophus simplicidens
www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/11/...
12:17 New tusked dolphins- Nihoroa reimaea and Nihohae matakoi
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
12:59 The Dunk got Shrunk
www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/3/318
14:33 More plants on Land cause Ocean Extinction
www.nature.com/articles/s4324...
15:28 Angiosperms Flourished in the Middle Jurassic
www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/13/3/819
16:23 Angiosperm were very diverse early on
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d...
17:10 Largest fossil logs of Paraphyllanthoxylon-type in Czech Republic
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
17:28 10 New trilobites in Thailand
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...
18:18 A New Basal Neornithischian Dinosaur- Minimocursor
www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/7/851
18:58 The First Dinosaur from the Kingdom of Cambodia
www.mdpi.com/2813-6284/1/1/6
19:22 New Alligator from Thailand- Alligator munensis
www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
19:55 Ground Penetrating Radar for fossil detection in Ica Desert
meetingorganizer.copernicus.o...
20:54 Using a synchrotron to avoid cutting bones for histology?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/iucr/...
22:04 Taphonomy of feathers and Melanin
www.cambridge.org/core/servic...
22:51 More Melanin taphonomy and preservation of phaeomelanin
www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
23:26 Pinacosaurus Larynx
www.nature.com/articles/s4200...
24:11 Tarchia's slow death by broken nose
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wil...
25:11 Dino Lips
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

[@jrbaxterstockman548]

I don't know why people are like its a goldfish not shark now. I look at the new Dunk and I see piranha the size of prius

[@icedragonaftermath]

Thank you. It is clearly a Mega Piranha.

[@Skumrasket]

You cant say its a piranha just cuz they look similar

[@Skumrasket]

It would be like calling marine reptiles dinosaurs

[@seanhoncho4348]

The Dunk went from being a shark to a killer goldfish 😂

[@paxlash]

…and is still awesome

[@mhdfrb9971]

It still can chop you in half

[@blooky102]

@@mhdfrb9971 I was thinking the exact same thing... o-o

[@DreadEnder]

Ignore the body. Its head hasn’t changed. It’s still a massive murder machine.

[@icedragonaftermath]

I was more thinking Mega Piranha, but to each their own.

[@marvinbange1216]

That radar sounds alot like a fossil version of the minecraft xray mod. What a dream huh?

[@takenname8053]

Hoping to find more great discovories this year!

[@icebergthedragon]

I’d always wondered if there was a bias toward reddish pigments in fossils and if it was related to how pigments are damaged / decompose. Entirely different circumstances there so just superficial but you see it in old taxidermy where the fur - sometimes due to sun damage but even sometimes without it - fades out and becomes more of a pale ruddy colour.

[@tomatosoup44]

Happy new year!

[@RaptorChatter]

To you too!

[@DreadEnder]

Cool video! I’ve been to kimmeridge a few times and it’s a great fossil beach! Lots of flies though. And with all the dead seaweed it stinks! But if you go there be careful where you step. We don’t want anymore broken legs

[@Turdfergusen382]

Great review, thanks Ezekiel

[@RaptorChatter]

You're welcome!

[@ChrisFixedKitty]

Thanks for this! Here's to a discovery-rich 2024!

[@paleo-logica]

One of the best years! 😍👏🏼

[@cw7429]

Always interesting!

[@DrNatemiester]

Great 1 year review! I’ve got a lot of catching up to do.

[@caseyjude5472]

Great video! Thanks!

[@DrBunnyMedicinal]

Good vid, the editing must have been EPIC!

[@pef1960]

Excellent.

[@megazillasaurus]

My favorite discoveries in 2023 are minimocursor and ampelognathus

[@RaptorChatter]

Great year for small ornithopods for sure!

[@whiteegretx]

Hey!

[@laynemartin7914]

Anyone else hear the line about the 5th finger evolving away and have a flashback to the Simpsons episode where they predicted eventually that would evolve a 5th finger... 😅 just me, okay. Cool...

[@trentenmerrill5239]

Lets fuckin go bebe!

[@heronselkirk3752]

with Notocyamus (the lotus), how do the know that it wasn't just the pods? in modern lotus flowers they lose their petals and only the pod is left. that fossil looks exactly like a lotus pod so I'm curious about how they know it wasn't just in its pod form.

[@ptrckhnry7634]

I could be wrong but it seems like there's a big volume fluctuation like there's no audio compression

[@emmymaria6173]

someday we will find out what the stem amphibian, stemphibian if you will, was

[@RaptorChatter]

With any luck! I still wouldn't be surprised if the initial split was among taxa which all had similar bodyplans until after the PT extinction, which would make it very hard to tell where that split was.

[@1998topornik]

It was year of whales. Expect them my favourite discovery was probably shrunking the dunk (mainly because of memes it spawned).

[@RaptorChatter]

Whale research was very intense this year, so much new stuff

[@dennismason3740]

Sometimes dinos give the finger to homo sapiens.

[@tyrannotherium7873]

I mean until we find a mummy, we will know the truth if theropods have lips or not

[@ChipsDaCat]

Actually, we don’t need a mummy. If they didn’t, their teeth would dry out. That would suck, as then they would weaken. There is a 92% Chance that they had lips.

[@pjbth]

Somebody else watches a lot of paleocast I see lol

[@RaptorChatter]

Not really. I try not to consume a ton of paleo content because I'd prefer not to have other influences.