This type of dinosaur typically had powerful hind legs and extremely short forelimbs. Their skulls were short in length, but tall, and often had grooves or projections (one of the most famous Abelisaurid dinosaurs,Carnotaurus, had thick, bony horns.) Example Abelisaurids Abelisaurus: The nam...
a Swedish manufacturer of mining equipment, which paleontologists find very useful in their field work), Atlascopcosaurus was a smallornithopodof theCretaceousperiod that bore a marked resemblance toHypsilophodon. This Australian dinosaur was discovered and described by the husband-and-wife team of Tim...
Feathered dinosaurs(sometimes referred to as "dino-birds") were an important intermediate stage between the small meat-eating theropods of the Jurassic and Triassic periods and the birds we all know and love today. On the following slides, you'll find pictures and detailed profiles of 75 feather...
So far, all this is not very special. In the end, however, this rig is specially adapted for natural history museums with their collections that have objects varying widely in size and shape complexity, with their low budgets, and with their dearth of technical personnel: you can learn to ...
Dinosaurs earn their names just like Tiny Tim, Andre the Giant and William “The Fridge” Perry. Sadly, dino names don’t always have the same ring to them. TakePachycephalosaurus. “Pachy” comes from the Greek word meaning thick; “cephale” means head; and “saurus” means lizard. Mush...
Jurassic Dinosaurs List with Pictures & Facts Cretaceous Dinosaurs: Introduction Skip the introduction - take me to the list! The Cretaceous Period was the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era. It lasted 79 million years, making it the longest period of the Mesozoic Era. ...
Younger kids will learn quickly to identify dinos and prehistoric animals (name, call, sounds and pictures) during a discovery phase which requires dexterity (scrolling, touch). Older kids are able to look for dinos in the night and use the camera to make their own photo album or create jig...
Dinosaur Names Dinosaur Pictures Dinosaur Scientists Charles Darwin Mary Anning Sir Richard Owen Dinosaur Scientists Dinosaur Software Dinosaur Types Allosaurus Ankylosaurus Apatosaurus Baryonyx Brachiosaurus Centrosaurus Ceratosaurus Coelophysis Deinonychus
Colonel Chris Hadfield is a former fighter pilot who became an astronaut and served as a commander of the International Space Station (ISS). While in orbit he became a social media star, posting breath-taking pictures of earth, as well as videos demonstrating practical science and playing his ...
Sir Richard Owen came up with the name dinosaur in 1841 to describe the fossils of extinct reptiles. He coined the word by combining the Greek words 'deinos', which means terrible, and 'sauros', which means lizard.Chinsamy-Turan, Anusuya...