Smithsonian Magazine has an article that details the Top 10 dinosaur discoveries of 2024.

Another year is coming to a close, and, just like last year, scientists have made an amazing number of dinosaur discoveries. Experts have continued to name new species and reveal previously unknown details of dinosaur lives at a rapid pace, allowing us to envision the Mesozoic world in ever more detail.

Paleontologists have published dozens of new dinosaur papers this year, each adding to what we know about the terrible lizards. Researchers have found tiny long-necks, trackways made by flapping raptors and more. What follows is just a small sampling of this year’s most surprising and informative finds, touching everything from dinosaur social lives to as-yet-undiscovered giants.

1. The largest dinosaurs are still out there to be found!  See the paper in Ecology and Evolution.
2. Flapping Tracks… tracks found in South Korea were made by a running dinosaur that was flapping its wings.
3. Stegasaurs used their spikes too intimidate.  Researchers modeled the tail of Miragaia in the Italian Journal of Paleontology and Stratigraphy.
4. A new burrowing dinosaur from Utah was published in the journal Anatomical Record.
5. Ants farmed fungus after the K-Pg extinction.  Entomologists discovered that fungus-farming ants began their close relationship in the aftermath.

For more, see the interesting article… including the “chicken from hell” from the Hell Creek Formation in western North America.