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Thagomizer has since been adopted as an informal anatomical term [5] and is used by the Smithsonian Institution, [4] [6] the Dinosaur National Monument, the book The Complete Dinosaur [7] and the BBC documentary series Planet Dinosaur. [8] The term has also appeared in some technical papers describing stegosaurs and related dinosaurs. [9] [10 ...
I'm A Dirty Dinosaur, I’m A Hungry Dinosaur. Janeen Brian. A small dinosaur that likes mud and cake. Old Bess. Tyrannosaurus rex. The Rider, other "Siglerverse" properties. Scott Sigler. A genetically resurrected T-Rex deployed in the fictional sport of Dinolition by Poughkeepsie Pete of the Roughland Ridgebacks.
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles [ note 1 ] of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is a subject of active research.
Nigersaurus (/ niːˈʒɛərsɔːrəs, ˈnaɪdʒərsɔːrəs /) is a genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur that lived during the middle Cretaceous period, about 115 to 105 million years ago. It was discovered in the Elrhaz Formation in an area called Gadoufaoua, in Niger. Fossils of this dinosaur were first described in 1976, but it was ...
The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, [a] also known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) extinction, [b] was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth [2][3] approximately 66 million years ago. The event caused the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs.
Free-air gravity anomaly over the Chicxulub structure (coastline and state boundaries shown as black lines) The Chicxulub crater (IPA: [t͡ʃikʃuˈluɓ] ⓘ cheek-shoo-LOOB) is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is offshore, but the crater is named after the onshore community of Chicxulub Pueblo ...
The dinosaur was named “Gnatalie" last month after the museum asked for a public vote on five choices that included Verdi, a derivative of the Latin word for green; Olive, after the small green ...
Oxalaia (in reference to the African deity Oxalá) is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in what is now the Northeast Region of Brazil during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous period, sometime between 100.5 and 93.9 million years ago. Its only known fossils were found in 1999 on Cajual Island in the rocks of the Alcântara ...