dinosaur

Byronosaurus

Byronosaurus was a 6 foot long raptor dinosaur which lived in Mongolia during the late Cretaceous Period 75 million years ago. Fossils of it have been found in the Djadochta Formation within Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, a place rich in Cretaceous-aged… Read More ›

Saurornithoides

Saurornithoides was a 6 foot long raptor dinosaur which lived in Mongolia during the late Cretaceous Period 75 million years ago. Fossils of it have been found in the Djadochta Formation within Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, a place rich in Cretaceous-aged… Read More ›

Leptoceratops

Most ceratopsians, or horn-faced dinosaurs, were medium to large-sized beasts often measuring 20-30 feet long. However, many others were much smaller. One of these was a 6 foot long pygmy-sized ceratopsian called Leptoceratops which inhabited North America at the very… Read More ›

Torosaurus

Introduction Most people equate the large ceratopsian dinosaur Triceratops as the arch enemy of Tyrannosaurus. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of artworks show these two species forever locked in mortal combat. But Triceratops was not the only horned dinosaur to dwell in… Read More ›

Alamosaurus

Introduction When one hears the word “dinosaur”, one often imagines the sauropods – the large long-necked long-tailed plant-eaters which came to dominate Earth’s landmasses during the Jurassic Period. The sauropods died out in North America at the end of the… Read More ›

Ornitholestes

Ornitholestes, “the bird thief”, was a small meat-eating dinosaur which lived in western North America during the late Jurassic Period about 154 million years ago. Since its discovery in the year 1900, Ornitholestes has come to be regarded as the… Read More ›

Phaedrolosaurus

Phaedrolosaurus, meaning “elated lizard”, was a species of dromaeosaurid raptor dinosaur which lived in western China during the early Cretaceous Period approximately 130-120 million years ago. In 1963, a team of local geologists were exploring an area near the town… Read More ›