It's that time again! Another DLC, another latenight recording and frantic rush to meet a tight deadline but we couldn't be happier to have to spend some time with these new theropod dinosaurs right away! This week, Frontier Developments released the Cretaceous Predator Pack, a DLC focused on some of the coolest theropod dinosaurs that lived in the Cretaceous Period, at the Mesozoic (the Age of Dinosaurs). We have Concavenator, a bizarre humped relative of Allosaurus, Giganotosaurus, and Carcharodontosaurus from the Early Cretaceous of Cuenca, Spain, which was discovered at the rich Las Hoyas fossil locality. Following Concavenator, we take a look at the Tarbosaurus design from Camp Cretaceous, and weigh in on the debate raging on Paleontology Twitter these days how do you properly design a Tarbosaurus to both have its own identity, and look very much like its more famous cousin Tyrannosaurus rex? Tarbosaurus and T. rex are both giant apex predators from the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous, when they terrorized all smaller dinosaurs in Mongolia and North America. We stay in Asia to look at Gigantoraptor, a bizarre, upsetting, and altogether toobig oviraptorosaur from the Middle Cretaceous of China, found at a location known as Iren Dabasu. But wait, there's more! Not just the last creature in the pack, but giant eggs known from all across the Northern Hemisphere that shows that Gigantoraptor wasn't oneofakind, but a member of a phantom group of giant murder turkeys that have managed to escape discovery in the fossil record.

And finally, the standout of the pack Utahraptor. This is often called the "true Jurassic Park Velociraptor", but as we said in our first video, that honor really goes to Deinonychus. But Utahraptor is a special beast of its own. It's a truly enormous dromaeosaurid (or raptor) dinosaur, from very early in the Cretaceous, but it remains poorly understood the holotype fossil is very incomplete, and the newer material is yet to be studied and published on. But we think this design is amazing, paleoarttier, and really brings this animal to life in stunning detail. For a dinosaur that almost got named after Steven Spielberg, we think it deserves nothing less.

We also rerank Pteranodon, Stegosaurus, and Brachiosaurus to account for the new altskins. Hell of an episode today folks please thank Scott in the comments for heroically getting this video out for today!

Image Credits:
Gigantoraptor erlianensis skeletal by Ivan Iofrida CC BY SA 4.0
Birdwing by L. Shyamal CC BY SA 2.5
Concavenator corcovatus by Daniel Vidal 2012 by Eoalulavis CC BY SA 3.0
Ichthyovenator laosensis life reconstruction by PaleoGeek by PaleoGeekSquared CC BY SA 4.0
Pelecanimimus reconstruction 2019 CC BY SA 4.0

00:00:00 Introduction
00:06:16 Can you put an old dinosaur in new skin?
00:28:26 Farewell and adieu, to you Spanish carcharodontodaurids
01:01:08 I'm really quite alarm[ing lizard] here
01:35:52 Do you think God stays in heaven because he's afraid of this specific creation?
02:03:16 He's big, he's beautiful, and he's immortalized by a lie
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