Theropodse a group of dinosaurs that manly walked on two legs and include big meat-eating dinosaurs.Ilike tyrannosaurus rex, commonly known as I rex.The research team looked at fossils fisop museums in the United States. Canada. China, and Argentina. They were able to cut into thee ...
juvenile Gorgosaurus, a meat-eating dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous Period in what is now Canada's Alberta province, with the left view showing the location of stomach contents hindlimbs of a small dinosaur called Citipes, is seen in this picture obtained by Reut...
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Sting in the tail. Credit: Nobu Tamura, CC BY Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis, a 70cm-long scorpion, lived in what we now know as Scotland 340 million years ago. At a length greater than that of the average pet cat, this terrifying creature used its tail to catch and kill its prey. ...
A maybe dubious ceratopsian that lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Montana, U.S. and Alberta, Canada. Fossils were found before scientists knew much about horned dinosaurs, also known as ceratopsians, and the man who namedMonocloniusat first thoughtMonocloniuswas a hadrosaur, or...
It might surprise people to learn that dinosaurs once roamed the landscape of North Carolina. While it is true that the majority of North American dinosaur fossils are found out west in states like Utah, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota, most U.S. states will have...
Abelisauridae is a family of theropod dinosaurs that lived in Africa, South America and Asia during the Cretaceous period. 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 (...
We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist?… The 10 Largest Animals in North America Due to its vast size — stretching from Canada and Greenland in the north, to Mexico in the south —… Discover the 10 Smallest Inse...
An artist rending of aT-rex. The largest one named Scotty was discovered in Canada's Badlands. It's on display at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Canada.SCIEPRO / Getty Images Most people assume that the North AmericanTyrannosaurus rex—at 40 feet from head to tail and seven to nine tons...
that is, a plant-eating dinosaur possessing large nasal horns and relatively short frills. This 20-foot-long, three-ton herbivore lived a few million years before Triceratops, and it was closely related to three other ceratopsians, Styracosaurus, Coronosaurus, and Spinops. Centro...