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We have come to a cousin of one of our first dinos on this alphabetical series, Carnotaurus, and this cousin may just be a contender for world’s ugliest dino, with its name literally meaning ‘wrinkly face’. Rugops was discovered by Paul Sereno in Niger and was a basal abelisaurid from the Early Cretaceous. Rugops meansContinue reading “Rugops: Ugliest Dino Ever?”

As you can see, we have found an actual dinosaur whose name starts with ‘Q’. In addition, this is not a ‘fake’ dinosaur like Pteranodon, but an actual cousin of T-rex and what its discovery told us completely changed paleontology. Qianzhousaurus was from China and Lü Junchang from the Chinese Academy of Geological Science saidContinue reading “Qianzhousaurus (A search for a ‘Q’ Dinosaur :D)”

Ornitholestes was a coelurosaurian closely related to Juravenator, although it lived in North America instead of Europe. Ornitholestes is a very little-known dinosaur; the only specimen is a badly crushed skull and the remains of a partial skeleton. Ornitholestes means ‘bird robber’ in Greek, but the name is inaccurate with what we know today. OrnitholestesContinue reading “Ornitholestes – Hunter of nonexistent birds”

We’ve always talked about theropods as the ‘meat-eating’ dinos, but that’s going to change today. Nothronychus was a theropod that lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now New Mexico. New Mexico was a pretty nice place back then, not to say that it still isn’t nice. Every place has its pros and cons.Continue reading “Nothronychus: New Mexican Oddity”

Micropachycephalosaurus is a mouthful, so we’re just gonna call it a Micro. Micros were extremely small herbivores that, as you can see, have the longest names of any dinosaur. Micropachycephalosaurus means “small thick-headed lizard” in Greek, and when discovered were thought to be pachycephalosaurs, a group of ornithopods whose heads possessed thick bony domes thatContinue reading “Micropachycephalosaurus – Small but Large –”

Lambeosaurus was a hadrosaurid ornithischian that lived in the Late Cretaceous. Lambeosaurus lived in North America and is one of the more well-known hadrosaurs. However, it isn’t as famous as its relatives Corythosaurus or Parasaurolophus. Lambeosaurus was an herbivore and belonged to the Lambeosaurini, a group that consisted of the crested hadrosaurs. Lambeosaurus had aContinue reading “Lesser-known Lambeosaurus”

Juravenator is one of those dinos you’ve never heard of, and nobody really knows that much about it. Juravenator was a theropod dinosaur that lived in the Middle Jurassic in Germany, back in the time of the first birds, Archeopteryx. Indeed, it is assumed to be a compsognathid, a group of theropods that were generallyContinue reading “Juravenator – Jurassic Hunters”