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Mounted skeletons of Tyrannosaurus (left) and Apatosaurus (right) at the AMNH. Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago, although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is the subject of active research.
List of Asian dinosaurs; List of Australian and Antarctic dinosaurs; List of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles of New Zealand; List of European dinosaurs; List of Indian and Madagascan dinosaurs; List of North American dinosaurs. List of Appalachian dinosaurs; List of archosaurs of the Chinle Formation; List of dinosaurs of the Morrison ...
Sauropoda is a clade of dinosaurs that consists of roughly 300 species of large, long-necked herbivores and includes the largest terrestrial animals ever to exist. The first sauropod species were named in 1842 by Richard Owen, though at the time, he regarded them as unusual crocodilians.
For additional high quality dinosaur images, see the Dinosaur Image Review Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh. Photo credit: User:ScottRobertAnselmo
Kentrosaurus (/ ˌ k ɛ n t r oʊ ˈ s ɔːr ə s / KEN-troh-SOR-əs; lit. ' prickle lizard ') is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic in Lindi Region of Tanzania.The type species is K. aethiopicus, named and described by German palaeontologist Edwin Hennig in 1915.
It remains uncertain whether the diversity of dinosaurs was in gradual decline before the K-Pg extinction event, or whether dinosaurs were actually thriving prior to the extinction. Rock formations from the Maastrichtian epoch, which directly preceded the extinction, have been found to have lower diversity than the preceding Campanian epoch ...
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Beginning in the 1970s, the effects of sauropod air sacs on their supposed aquatic lifestyle began to be explored. Paleontologists such as Coombs and Bakker used this, as well as evidence from sedimentology and biomechanics , to show that sauropods were primarily terrestrial animals.