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Skorpiovenator - Real or Made Up Dinosaur? - Fossil Crates

Skorpiovenator - Real or Made Up Dinosaur?

Skorpiovenator    Is Skorpiovenator a real dinosaur?   Skorpiovenator was named in... 2008 and it is most definitely a real dinosaur.  This incredible Late Cretaceous Argentine abelisaurid is known from a spectacularly...

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Skorpiovenator - Real or Made Up Dinosaur?

Skorpiovenator    Is Skorpiovenator a real dinosaur?   Skorpiovenator was named in... 2008 and it is most definitely a real dinosaur.  This incredible Late Cretaceous Argentine abelisaurid is known from a spectacularly...

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Pyroraptor - real dinosaur or made up for Jurassic World Dominion? - Fossil Crates

Pyroraptor - real dinosaur or made up for Juras...

Pyroraptor  Pyroraptor, "fire thief", is a "raptor" (technically a dromaeosaurid) from the Late Cretaceous of France, ~72 million years old.  The name "Pyro" was chosen because it was discovered in an...

Pyroraptor - real dinosaur or made up for Juras...

Pyroraptor  Pyroraptor, "fire thief", is a "raptor" (technically a dromaeosaurid) from the Late Cretaceous of France, ~72 million years old.  The name "Pyro" was chosen because it was discovered in an...

Never heard of the Jurassic World Dominion Atrociraptor?  Don't fret, we've got you covered! - Fossil Crates

Never heard of the Jurassic World Dominion Atro...

Atrociraptor marshalli Currie & Varricchio 2004   What's an... Atrociraptor?   Making its big-screen debut in Jurassic World - Dominion is Atrociraptor!   The name means "savage robber".  It was discovered in 1995 and...

Never heard of the Jurassic World Dominion Atro...

Atrociraptor marshalli Currie & Varricchio 2004   What's an... Atrociraptor?   Making its big-screen debut in Jurassic World - Dominion is Atrociraptor!   The name means "savage robber".  It was discovered in 1995 and...

What's in a name? Dinosaur nomenclature and Tyrannosaurus rex

What's in a name? Dinosaur nomenclature and Tyr...

The best-known dinosaur name in all of paleontology is Tyrannosaurus rex, the "Tyrant Lizard King." Everyone the world over knows those 6 syllables. The original publication, from 1905, was written...

What's in a name? Dinosaur nomenclature and Tyr...

The best-known dinosaur name in all of paleontology is Tyrannosaurus rex, the "Tyrant Lizard King." Everyone the world over knows those 6 syllables. The original publication, from 1905, was written...

Everything you know about Utahraptor hands is wrong! - Fossil Crates

Everything you know about Utahraptor hands is w...

Utahraptor, the Early Cretaceous apex predator of Utah and the largest dromaeosaurid "raptor" ever discovered, is mounted with toe claws on its hands!   Toe Claws on its hands! (Toe...

Everything you know about Utahraptor hands is w...

Utahraptor, the Early Cretaceous apex predator of Utah and the largest dromaeosaurid "raptor" ever discovered, is mounted with toe claws on its hands!   Toe Claws on its hands! (Toe...

Largest Jurassic Predator?  Meet Torvosaurus! - Fossil Crates

Largest Jurassic Predator? Meet Torvosaurus!

  The title of largest Jurassic predator is up for grabs.  Torvosaurus certainly makes a great case for being the heaviest, and longest, of the known Jurassic giant-killers! Originally named in...

Largest Jurassic Predator? Meet Torvosaurus!

  The title of largest Jurassic predator is up for grabs.  Torvosaurus certainly makes a great case for being the heaviest, and longest, of the known Jurassic giant-killers! Originally named in...

  • Majungasaurus, dinosaur with an identify crisis - Fossil Crates

    Majungasaurus, dinosaur with an identify crisis

    Dr. Brian Curtice

    Majungasaurus Majungasaurus, "Mahajunga lizard," lived in Madagascar at the end of the dinosaurs' reign, from ~70 mya right up to the very end 66 mya.   Click here to learn...

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    Majungasaurus, dinosaur with an identify crisis

    Dr. Brian Curtice

    Majungasaurus Majungasaurus, "Mahajunga lizard," lived in Madagascar at the end of the dinosaurs' reign, from ~70 mya right up to the very end 66 mya.   Click here to learn...

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  • Anz-who?  Anzu, that's who! - Fossil Crates

    Anz-who? Anzu, that's who!

    Dr. Brian Curtice

    Anzu wyliei is the largest and most complete North American oviraptorosaur thus far discovered, measuring 11’ long and around 600 lbs.  Its massive size dwarfs its 6’ long North American relatives, Chirostenotes and...

    Anz-who? Anzu, that's who!

    Dr. Brian Curtice

    Anzu wyliei is the largest and most complete North American oviraptorosaur thus far discovered, measuring 11’ long and around 600 lbs.  Its massive size dwarfs its 6’ long North American relatives, Chirostenotes and...

  • Ubirajara jubatus, "Maned Lord of the Spear": Were the ribbons real? - Fossil Crates

    Ubirajara jubatus, "Maned Lord of the Spear": W...

    Dr. Brian Curtice

    Ubirajara jubatus, the "Maned Lord of the Spear," is a beautifully preserved 3' long, ~112 million-year-old meat-eating Brazilian dinosaur.  The specimen is preserved with a proto-feathery mane down its spine...

    Ubirajara jubatus, "Maned Lord of the Spear": W...

    Dr. Brian Curtice

    Ubirajara jubatus, the "Maned Lord of the Spear," is a beautifully preserved 3' long, ~112 million-year-old meat-eating Brazilian dinosaur.  The specimen is preserved with a proto-feathery mane down its spine...

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