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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...

2021 Year in Review - Fossil Crates

2021 Year in Review

2021 Selected Interesting Dinosaur Papers 2021 was another banner year for dinosaurs!  Let's go through, month by month, and revisit some of my favorites! Thank you kindly, BC January We...

2021 Year in Review

2021 Selected Interesting Dinosaur Papers 2021 was another banner year for dinosaurs!  Let's go through, month by month, and revisit some of my favorites! Thank you kindly, BC January We...

Spinosaurus! - Fossil Crates

Spinosaurus!

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus (Stromer, 1915)  “Spine Lizard from Egypt” named because of the tall sail made up of tall vertebral spines Late Cretaceous, 100-93 mya, Egypt, Morocco   Spinosaurus is one...

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Spinosaurus!

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus (Stromer, 1915)  “Spine Lizard from Egypt” named because of the tall sail made up of tall vertebral spines Late Cretaceous, 100-93 mya, Egypt, Morocco   Spinosaurus is one...

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Supersaurus - world's longest dinosaur - Fossil Crates

Supersaurus - world's longest dinosaur

  Life restoration of Supersaurus It would take 4 full seconds for the fastest man in the world to run from nose to tail.  It is longer than 3 large school...

Supersaurus - world's longest dinosaur

  Life restoration of Supersaurus It would take 4 full seconds for the fastest man in the world to run from nose to tail.  It is longer than 3 large school...

  • 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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