Dinosaurs – 🦖 Paleontology

How long was the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs?

August 28, 2020August 28, 2020Paleontology_US

What do we know about that killer rock that darkened the skies for dozens of years, raised the volume of the sea above the heads of large animals, and caused earthquakes and violent volcanic events? The mass extinction event of 65 million years ago, which wiped out most of Earth’s species (including dinosaurs) has been widely publicized […]

The most famous dinosaurs of prehistory

August 21, 2020August 21, 2020Paleontology_US

The first dinosaurs evolved during the middle to late Triassic period, about 230 million years ago, in the part of the super continent of Pangea that currently corresponds to South America. Before that, the dominant terrestrial reptiles were archosaurs (dominant reptiles), therapsids (mammal-like reptiles), and pelycosaurs (such as the Dimetrodon that lived during the Permian period). The earliest archosaurs are believed […]

How many dinosaurs existed on Earth?

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020Paleontology_US

How many dinosaurs were there? Many people question the number of dinosaurs that existed on Earth. This question actually makes a lot of sense, especially when you know that these giant reptiles have been the longest-ruling the world. If you want to know what is known about this matter, you are in the right place. Dinosaurs existed for at […]

Flying dinosaurs

August 12, 2020August 12, 2020Paleontology_US

Everything about flying dinosaurs or pterosaurs (winged reptiles) is really wonderful. Compared to other more well-known and studied species of dinosaurs, scientists have found it a bit more difficult to agree on these creatures, because archaeological findings have not been as abundant and illuminating. However, today there is a lot of information in this regard, and most specialists agree […]

Smaller dinosaurs

August 8, 2020August 8, 2020Paleontology_US

Dinosaurs are always evoked as beings of great dimensions, but a large number of species of this type of reptile were not so large. There are dinosaurs of many types, weights, heights and sizes and it should be noted that there were actually more small dinosaurs than huge ones. Small dinosaurs could be even smaller than dogs […]

Dinosaur Pictures

July 29, 2020July 29, 2020Paleontology_US

Do you love dinosaurs? If you are truly passionate or passionate about these already extinct living beings and you would spend hours reading information, watching videos or observing pictures of dinosaurs, you are in luck because here we present a special selection of snapshots that will not leave you indifferent. You will find photos of dinosaurs of […]

Beipiaosaurus

July 7, 2020July 7, 2020Paleontology_US

Beipiaosaurus Beipiaosaurus is a genus of therizinosauroid theropod dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Early Cretaceous in the Yixian Formation. The first remains were found in 1996 and formally described in 1999. Before the discovery of Yutyrannus, they were among the largest dinosaurs known from direct evidence to be feathered. Beipiaosaurus is known from three reported specimens preserving numerous impressions of feather structures that allowed to determine the feathering […]

Sauroposeidon

June 30, 2020June 30, 2020Paleontology_US

Sauroposeidon Sauroposeidon meaning “lizard earthquake god”, after the Greek god Poseidon) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur known from several incomplete specimens including a bone bed and fossilized trackways that have been found in the American states of Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Texas. The fossils were found in rocks dating from near the end of the Early Cretaceous , a time when sauropod diversity in North America had greatly diminished. It was […]

10 Best Dinosaur with horns

June 23, 2020October 1, 2020Paleontology_US

10 Best Dinosaur with horns Although the most famous, Triceratops was far from the only dinosaur (horned and congested dinosaur) in the Mesozoic period. In fact, more serotypes have been discovered in North America in the past twenty years than any other type of dinosaur. Below you will find 10 Best Dinosaur with horns that […]

Apatosaurus

June 21, 2020June 21, 2020Paleontology_US

Apatosaurus Apatosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaurs that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period. Othniel Charles Marsh described and named the first-known species, A. ajax in 1877, and a second species, A. louisae, was discovered and named by William H. Holland in 1916. They lived about 152 to 151 million years ago (mya), during the early Tithonian age, […]