Apatosaurus
“She was my favorite when I was a kid. Now I see her, she’s the most beautiful thing I ever saw.”– Alan Grant Apatosaurus is one of the most famous of the giant Jurassic plant-eaters. It was a sauropod, a member of a race of huge, long-necked dinosaurs. It was longer than two school buses […]
Bumpy (Ankylosaurus)
“She was my favorite when I was a kid. Now I see her, she’s the most beautiful thing I ever saw.”– Alan Grant Bumpy is an Ankylosaurus that was born in Jurassic World. Born with one large horn, Bumpy first saw Ben Pincus when hatched leading Bumpy to be close to the boy. Later on, […]
Ankylosaurus
“The Ankylosaurus. This is a herbivorous quadruped. Late Cretaceous. This is one of the largest armored dinosaurs. Known by paleontologists as a living tank.” – Gunnar Eversoll Ankylosaurus was built like a living tank, with extremely thick, bony plates of armor on its body, even including armored eyelids. Its tail also had a second function; […]
Allosaurus 2
“Every dinosaur that’s recreated is important, but some also capture our imaginations. The Allosaurus is one such animal. It is believed that in its original environment, it was squarely at the top of the food chain. I’m interested to discover if that’s true, given the opportunity.” – Claire Dearing Albertosaurus was a tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur […]
Allosaurus
“Every dinosaur that’s recreated is important, but some also capture our imaginations. The Allosaurus is one such animal. It is believed that in its original environment, it was squarely at the top of the food chain. I’m interested to discover if that’s true, given the opportunity.” – Claire Dearing Albertosaurus was a tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur […]
Alioramus
“An Alioramus is a new branch between the chickens and the lizards.” – Randomly generated quote that has nothing to do with the Alioramus Alioramus (“different branch”) is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period of Asia. The type species, A. remotus, is known from a partial skull and three foot […]
Tyrannosaurus Rex
“There’s no such thing as good or bad dinosaurs. There are predators and prey. The T-Rex in ‘Jurassic Park’ took human lives and saved them. No one interpreted her as good or bad.” — Colin Trevorrow Tyrannosaurus (meaning “tyrant lizard”) is an extinct genus of large theropod dinosaur. The species Tyrannosaurus rex (rex meaning “king” in […]
Triceratops 2
“She was my favorite when I was a kid. Now I see her, she’s the most beautiful thing I ever saw.”– Alan Grant Triceratops is an extinct genus of herbivorous chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur which lived at the very end of the Cretaceous period. It had a huge frilled head with horns over each eye that […]
Triceratops
“She was my favorite when I was a kid. Now I see her, she’s the most beautiful thing I ever saw.”– Alan Grant Triceratops is an extinct genus of herbivorous chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur which lived at the very end of the Cretaceous period. It had a huge frilled head with horns over each eye that […]
Tarbosaurus
“Siats” can also mean a man-eating monster in the Ute mythology.”— Wikipedia Tarbosaurus was a very close relative to the Tyrannosaurus rex in size and also the massive skull which is 4 feet long. Tarbosaurus was a large dinosaur about 40 feet long and weighed 6 tons. It lived in Southern Mongolia in the late […]