During the Mesozoic Era, dinosaurs ruled the land, but their flying cousins the pterosaurs ruled the sky. They first appeared during the late Triassic Period about 210 million years ago, and persisted until the reign of the reptiles came to… Read More ›
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Acrocanthosaurus
Acrocanthosaurus, meaning “high-spined lizard”, was a large 35 foot long meat-eating dinosaur which lived in North America during the middle of the Cretaceous Period approximately 115-110 million years ago. It is distinctive for the unusually tall neural spines on the… Read More ›
Kelmayisaurus
Kelmayisaurus was an obscure species of large meat-eating dinosaur which lived in northwestern China (the region sometimes referred to as Uyghurstan) during the early to middle Cretaceous Period 130-120 million years ago. In 1964, fossils belonging to several dinosaur species… Read More ›
Dakosaurus
There were numerous kinds of marine reptiles which swam in the oceans during the Mesozoic Era, including the ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs. Less well known are the marine crocodilians, or more accurately, crocodylomorphs. These animals are known as the thalattosuchians,… Read More ›
Pliosaurus
We all know that dinosaurs walked the earth in prehistoric times, and many of us are also aware that pterosaurs flew across the skies and fearsome marine reptiles swam in the oceans. Some of these marine reptiles (which weren’t dinosaurs,… Read More ›
Kepodactylus
Kepodactylus was a species of pterosaur which lived in western North America during the late Jurassic Period 150 million years ago. In 1992, a nearly-complete Stegosaurus skeleton was discovered in Garden Park, Colorado within the rocks of the Morrison Formation…. Read More ›
Euhelopus
Euhelopus was a sauropod dinosaur which lived in eastern China during the early Cretaceous Period approximately 130-112 million years ago. Fossils of this animal were found in the early 20th Century within the rocks of the Meng-Yin Formation within Shandong… Read More ›
Alectrosaurus
Alectrosaurus was a small tyrannosauroidean theropod dinosaur which lived in Mongolia during the middle of the Cretaceous Period around 95 million years ago. It is known from partial remains belonging to several individuals, but their incompleteness makes it difficult to… Read More ›
Gigantoraptor
Gigantoraptor was a massive 25-30 foot long oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaur which lived in eastern Asia (and possibly in North America) during the middle of the Cretaceous Period. The fossils of this enormous bird-like dinosaur, consisting of a partial skeleton, were… Read More ›
Hylaeosaurus
Hylaeosaurus was a 15 foot long armored dinosaur which lived in England (and possibly elsewhere in Europe) during the early Cretaceous Period approximately 135 million years ago. The bones of this animal were discovered in July 1832 within Tilgate Forest,… Read More ›
DINOSAURS AND BARBARIANS 