The ‘age of the dinosaurs’ was vast and varied. When dealing with periods of hundreds of millions of years, it’s easy for time to seem a little compressed. In pop culture, especially, dinosaurs...
Thanks to the "Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic World" movies, the Velociraptor is one of the world's most well-known dinosaurs. However, there's a huge difference between the Hollywood version of the Velociraptor and the less imposing one familiar to paleontologists. ...
In decades past, dinosaurs were distinguished from other reptiles of their time by the fact that they lived on land. There weren’t any dinosaurs that swam in the oceans like the fish-like ichthyosaurs, and there were no dinosaurs that...
So, you love dinosaurs. You’re probably familiar with the T. rex, the Triceratops, and the Stegosaurus — but you want more. Well, don’t worry, cause we’ll give you more Awesome Dinosaurs. It would far too long to go through all...
Cotylorhynchus Cotylorhynchus is an extinct genus of very large synapsids that lived in the southern part of what is now North America during the Early Permian period. It is the best known member of the synapsid clade Caseidae, usually considered the largest...
Quaternary Period Quaternary Period is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). It follows the Neogene Period and spans from 2.588 ± 0.005 million years ago to...
Herbivorous Dinosaur Paleontologists in Canada have found the fossil fragments from a new species of herbivorous dinosaur that walked the Earth during the Cretaceous period. The newly-discovered dinosaur lived approximately 67 million years...
Pliosaurus Pliosaurus (meaning ‘more lizard’) is a genus of thalassophonean pliosaurid known from the Kimmeridgian and Tithonian stages (Late Jurassic) of Europe and South America. Their diet would have included fish, cephalopods, and marine reptiles. This genus has contained many species in the past but recent reviews found...
Protoceratops Protoceratops (meaning “First Horned Face”) is a genus of sheep-sized (1.8 m long) herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur, from the Upper Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. It was a member of the Protoceratopsidae, a group of early horned dinosaurs....
Jurassic Park 3: Info and Facts ≠ According to an interview with William H. Macy, the actor said the film’s animatronic Spinosaurus had a 1,000-horsepower motor and that creature could turn its head at...
