Megaraptor was a 25 foot long carnivorous dinosaur which lived in Argentina during the late Cretaceous Period 90 million years ago. The fossils of this animal were discovered by the Argentinian paleontologist Fernando Novas in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina in 1996…. Read More ›
Neovenator salerii was a 25 foot long meat-eating dinosaur which lived in England (and possibly other parts of Europe) during the early Cretaceous Period 125 million years ago. Fossils of this animal were first discovered in 1978 on the Isle… Read More ›
And today’s topic which is sure to start an argument is…Are there three different species of Falcarius within the Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation? The basal therizinosaur Falcarius utahensis, which was officially named and described in 2005… Read More ›
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 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 ›
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 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 ›
Introduction Suchosaurus, “the crocodile lizard”, was a spinosaur theropod dinosaur measuring approximately 25 feet long which lived in southern England from 139-132 million years ago. A fossilized tooth belonging to this animal was discovered in the early 1800s, and was… Read More ›
Martharaptor was a therizinosaur theropod dinosaur which lived in Utah during the early Cretaceous Period approximately 135-132 million years ago. Therizinosaurs are known mostly from the middle and later parts of the Cretaceous Period. Fossils dating to the early Cretaceous… Read More ›
Adasaurus mongoliensis was a dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur (commonly referred to as a “raptor“) which lived in Mongolia during the late Cretaceous Period about 70 million years ago. Fragmentary remains were found during the 1970s, and it was officially named and… Read More ›
