Dinosaurs
It isn't hard to imagine the world full of dinosaurs, even though these extinct animals haven't walked the earth for millions of years. Learn all about dinosaurs, including early dinosaur discoveries, dinosaur fossils, and dinosaur extinction.
Who Owns the Rights to a Dinosaur Skeleton?
Why Won't Hollywood Depict Dinosaurs With Feathers?
World's Largest Dinosaur Footprints Discovered in Australia
Barapasaurus
Coelophysis
Scutellosaurus
Meet Archaeopteryx, a Feathered Dino With Wings and Teeth
Stegosaurus: Body Like a Bus, Tiny Little Brain
Allosaurus Was a Massive 'Flesh Grazer' and Possible Cannibal
Utahraptor: The Salty Saga of a Killer Dinosaur
Nigersaurus: The 'Mesozoic Cow' With More Than 500 Teeth
Acrocanthosaurus
T. Rex Didn't Kiss and Tell, But May Have Had Lips
Tyrannosaurus Rex Was the Tyrant Lizard King
Ankylosaurus: A Tank-like Herbivore With a Killer Club Tail
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Styracosaurus was discovered in 1913 in the Belly River Formation of Alberta by Charles Sternberg. Lawrence Lambe named this animal Styracosaurus albertensis, which means "spiked reptile of Alberta," for its unusual neck frill.
The first two Torosaurus specimens were a pair of skulls found in Wyoming in 1891 by John Bell Hatcher. They were described by Othniel Marsh later that same year. These two skulls were named Torosaurus latus and Torosaurus gladius.
The Velociraptors in "Jurassic Park" were roughly the size of humans. In reality, they were about the size of an average turkey.
By Mark Mancini
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Types of dinosaurs include the lizard-hipped dinosaurs and the bird-hipped divisions of dinosaurs. Both of these types of dinosaurs probably shared a common ancestor during the Middle Triassic. How else are these dinosaurs related?
Dinosaur bones are all we have to study what these animals looked like and how they lived. Some of the most important dinosaur bones that paleontologists study come from the skull. Why is the skull so important?
Barapasaurus is named for a word meaning "big leg" in a local dialect in central India. This large dinosaur was a herbivore with large flat teeth that are ideal for cutting or crushing vegetation. What did this dinosaur look like?
One of the most unusual predators is that of Coelophysis. It was only slightly larger than a turkey and had a long slender tail and a mouth full of knife-edged teeth. What was this dinosaur's behavior like?
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Perhaps no other beast has been more wildly mischaracterized in popular culture than the crested predator Dilophosaurus.
By Mark Mancini
Scutellosaurus was a very unusual dinosaur because it was a two-legged dinosaur that had armor. Most armored dinosaurs walked on all fours. Many scientists believe this dinosaur to be the ancestor of later larger armored dinosaurs.