Anay Ganesh

If we go back in time, one may recall Nothronychus, the therizinosaur that I wrote about for my N dino. In that post, I mentioned Zuniceratops as living in the same era and place as Nothronychus; namely, New Mexico in the Late Cretaceous. Zuniceratops means ‘Zuni horned face’ because the region that it was foundContinue reading “Zuniceratops: Missing Link?”

Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately for us), dragons do not exist. I know that that’s very surprising, but the fact of the matter is that they are imaginary. However, dinosaurs did exist (once upon a time) and since they are the closest thing we have to dragons, let’s look at the most dragon-like dinosaur ever discovered.Continue reading “Yi qi: Mini-Dragon”

Today we talk about a very weird-looking almost alien relative of Triceratops: Xenoceratops. Let’s get started. Xenoceratops was a centrosaurine, part of another, much weirder branch of the ceratopsian family. Unlike its distant relative Triceratops, Xenoceratops had a trapezoidal neck frill and a good amount of horns, including two on the frill, many bony knobsContinue reading “Xenoceratops: Alien Rhino”

Vulcanodon is not that well-known of a dinosaur. Most people have never even heard of it, since it’s never been featured in popular media. However, this sauropod has an interesting story and dinosaur enthusiasts should know about it, which is why we’re going to talk about this dinosaur. So, what even is Vulcanodon? Where andContinue reading “Vulcanodon: Misplaced Teeth”

Today we are going to talk about a dinosaur that nobody really knows much about that hails from down under in Australia. We are talking about Wintonotitan, a titanosaur sauropod that lived in the Middle Cretaceous in Australia! This is the first dinosaur that we’ve talked about that was found in Australia. However, there areContinue reading “Wintonotitan – Giant From Down Under”

While our star of the show today is a ‘raptor’ or dromaeosaurid, Unenlagia (which, by the way, means “half-bird” in the Mapuche language), belongs to a completely different branch than Velociraptor or Dromeo. To be honest, I was thinking of Utahraptor for a ‘U’ dinosaur but we always keep talking about the raptors north ofContinue reading “Unenlagia: Different Continent, different raptor”

Stegosaurus is one of those iconic dinosaurs that appears everywhere. So, today, we’re gonna look at the finer details of this dino and really examine the animal behind the name! Let’s get started. Stegosaurus lived in the Late Jurassic in North America, alongside Brontosaurus and Allosaurus. It was closely related to Kentrosaurus from Tanzania. TheContinue reading “Stegosaurus: Why the Plates?”

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)”