As Dinosaurs dominated life on Earth during the latter part of the Mesozoic they diversified into many varied forms, each genus adapting to a specific…
In 2001, a more complete juvenile tyrannosaur (“Jane”, catalogue number BMRP 2002.4.1), belonging to the same species as the original Nanotyrannus specimen, was uncovered. In…
Today, many paleontologists believe that the “type specimens” of this ceratopsian should properly be assigned to Centrosaurus, which had a strikingly similar (and massively ornamented)…
Scientists believe that this large dinosaur roamed the earth during the early Cretaceous Period about 125 to 135 million years ago. With several interesting physical…
Hesperonychus (“western claw”) was not only the smallest North American carnivore, it’s the only known, and latest known, North American microraptorian (microraptorians are, of course,…
The most complete find of Giganotosaurus was made by Rubén Dario Carolini, an amateur fossil hunter who, on 25 July 1993, discovered a skeleton in…
The first fossil remains of this dinosaur were discovered in early August 1963 by a team of Professor Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska at Tsagan Khushu during a…
Discovered in 2005, the Falcarius is believed to be a link between the typical carnivorous theropods and an unusual group called the therizinosaurs, which are…
Although nominated to anchor its own family of dinosaurs, Dromaeosauridae precious little is known of Dromaeosaurus, at least compared to some of its subordinate relatives.…
Scientists spent a lot of time studying Deinonychus because one of the fossils was discovered close to its eggs. This led scientists to believe that…
The hadrosaurids or the duck-billed dinosaurs have been classified by scientists and paleontologists into two prominent groups, namely the hadrosaurinae and the lambeosaurinae. The Corythosaurus…
Chirostenotes is a genus of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the late Cretaceous (about 75 million years ago) of Alberta, Canada. The type species is Chirostenotes pergracilis.…