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Triceratops (/ t r aɪ ˈ s ɛr ə t ɒ p s / try-SERR-ə-tops; [1] lit. ' three-horned face ') is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period, about 68 to 66 million years ago in what is now western North America.
An adult bee hummingbird, the smallest known dinosaur. The smallest dinosaur known is the bee hummingbird, [158] with a length of only 5 centimeters (2.0 in) and mass of around 1.8 g (0.063 oz). [159] The smallest known non-avialan dinosaurs were about the size of pigeons and were those theropods most closely related to birds. [160]
The Morrison Formation records a very diverse dinosaur fauna in addition to fossils of other animals and plants. It is arguably most famous for its plentiful sauropod fauna. In particular, the Howe-Stephens Quarry from which Ardetosaurus is known has yielded associated skeletons of the sauropods Diplodocus and Camarasaurus , the armored ...
The specimen, dubbed Bucky in honor of its discoverer, was a young adult, 3.0 metres (10 ft) tall and 11 metres (35 ft) long. Bucky is the first Tyrannosaurus to be found that preserved a furcula (wishbone).
An adult would have been about twice as long (15 metres (49 ft) in length) [2] which is still less than half the length of its gigantic kin, like Argentinosaurus and Paralititan. In 2020 Molina-Perez and Larramendi estimated the size of the probable adult specimen (MAD 93-18), which is known from a femur, at 16.5 meters (54 ft) and 10.3 tonnes ...
The UK's biggest ever dinosaur trackway site has been discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire. About 200 huge footprints, which were made 166 million years ago, criss-cross the limestone floor.
British researchers have unearthed some 200 dinosaur footprints dating back 166 million years in a find believed to be biggest in the United Kingdom. Teams from Oxford and Birmingham Universities ...
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