Like other dromaeosaurids, Utahraptor had a huge bent claw on the second toe that could get up to 23 cm (almost 9 inches) long. The…
Only the bravest or most foolish hunters would dare follow this trail of tyrannosaur tracks that meanders through the rainforest. This started out as a…
Tsaagan mangas, was found in the Ukhaa Tolgod region of Mongolia. Tsaagan was slightly larger than a turkey and its skull is one of the…
Tarchia in Mongolian means ‘brain’. This name was applied because although the other ankylosaur from the Barun Goyot Formation, Saichania chulsanensis, has a skull twice…
Suchomimus was discovered in Africa in 1997. Its name, “crocodile mimic,” refers to its long, toothy, distinctly crocodilian snout, which it probably used to snap…
Stygimoloch is an interesting dinosaur for several reasons. Although it lived in the late Cretaceous, it had a number of primitive characteristics such as five…
The type species, Rapator ornitholestoides, was originally named by Friedrich von Huene in 1932. The meaning of the generic name is problematic. Von Huene gave…
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…
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…
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.…