Archive for the ‘Dinosaur’ Category
Huge Birds Also Lived During the Dinosaur Era

Can you imagine what a 10 foot tall bird would look like? Would you want to ever run across one? The bird was called a Samrukia nessovi. It's name sake was the mythical Kazakh Phoenix that once lived in the area now called Kazakhstan. The ostrich is the largest bird that still survives on our earth ...
Alioramus
Alioramus was bipedal like most theropods, and its sharp enamel point out that it was a carnivore. It was smaller than tyrannosaurids like Tarbosaurus and Tyrannosaurus, however its adult dimension is tough to estimate since both species are known from juvenile or sub-grownup remains. Alioramus is characterized by the row of 5 bony crests along ...
Epidexipteryx
Epidexipteryx was very fowl-like, with 4 long ribbon-like tail feathers - probably utilized in display. Yet the pigeon-sized creature shows no signal of the flight feathers seen in different chicken-like dinosaurs, per a report within the journal Nature. The discovery highlights the variety of species present throughout the Middle to Late Jurassic, merely earlier than ...
Allosaurus Theropod
Allosaurus was a large bipedal predator with an enormous cranium, outfitted with dozens of enormous, sharp teeth. It averaged 8.5 meters (28 ft) in size, though fragmentary remains imply it might need reached over 12 meters (39 ft). Relative to the large and strong hindlimbs, its three-fingered forelimbs were small, and the body was balanced ...
Theropod Tyrannosaurus Rex
While the Tyrannosaurus rex is posed as whether it is stalking prey, we do not actually know clearly whether or not meat-consuming dinosaurs which include this were energetic hunters -- tracking down, attacking, and killing prey -- or scavengers, feeding on the carcasses of alternative dinosaurs. While its enormous jaws and its sturdy legs would ...
Mononykus
Lived a bird-footed dinosaur from late Cretaceous Mongoli with long, skinny legs. It moved about on 2 legs, was very agile, and could run at high speeds, something that would have been useful in the open wild plains where it lived. It had an small skull, and its teeth were little and pointed, indicating that ...
Alxasaurus
It's among the earliest known members of the superfamily Therizinosauroidea, but it still possessed the body shape - including the long neck, short tail, and long hand hooks - of later therizinosauroids. Like other members of this group, it was an bipedal herbivore with a large gut to process plant material. Many specimens are known ...
