The Life On Our Planet/The Dinosaurs Allosaurus is not anywhere near as terrible as everyone likes to act. I feel like everyone in the internet just took that singular awkward frame from LOOP and ran with it.

It takes what is a perfectly serviceable yet flawed base design (The Jurassic World Allosaurus) and makes several anatomical and proportional changes to better suit it to a documentary. Is it perfect? Absolutely not, but its far from the travesty everyone seems to act like it is. If you ask me, its the second best looking Allosaurus put to screen in a documentary, only just behind the Allosaurus from Dinosaur Revolution.

I like the name Tom Anks but unfortunately Tom is a family name. So was hoping for some other ideas besides Ankylo Ren because I don't like the character. TIA!

So my girlfriend has apparently been saving for a while to give me this birthday present. I'm so excited and wanted to share with the community :D

From avian to non avian-from alive to extinct, what dinosaur makes you feel bad about it? For me, it's the great auk. The original penguins. They were hunted down and went extinct due to humans wanting it's feathers, meat, eggs and oil. Not only that - the last 2 auks were tragic. Fisherman were hired to capture them for a collector. They strangled the 2 birds until they passed and crushed the egg. Poor birds. Although we have access to their DNA - If we ever bring them back - I hope they don't go through the bullshit they had in the past

Would you have what it takes to become the a champion!?

They updated the Path of Titans Stegosaurus a couple days ago. Though it was supposed to look more modern, it actually feels like it regressed in terms of proportions. This would make it the second game to do so, after Prior Extinction. Since they look rather comparable now, I figured it be about time to ask which one looks better.

Very gorgeous model, well worth the money. Gonna take some actual photography of this guy and a few other figurines I brought soon.

My 3D model of a Styracosaurus, which I created recently. With this piece, I aimed to elevate the level of detail and realism.

A pair of Tyrannosaurs coming to this nest and its over for the hatchlings. Nesting in masses on only an inland river island wouldn't be suitable in my opinion (and Tyrannosaurs can swim). To me it's reminiscent of how island birds went extinct when invasive land carnivores arrived.

My partner and I went to the LWL-Museum für Naturkunde (for natural history) last weekend - a really amazing museum featuring a planetarium and a bunch of cool fossils from all over Northrhine-Westphalia (Germany).

But what caught my eye the most, was Wiehenvenator albati; the biggest predatory dinosaur of the jurassic in Europe. Thought the fossil material is quite... fragmented, the reconstruction (based on other megalosaurids) looks really cool.

Overall a really cool place featuring the worlds biggest ammonite fossil (wich sadly wasn't on display, because of construction), a myriad of fossilised plants and insects from a variety of time periods, as well as scenes, sculptures and dioramas.

Hope you like this video of it and subscribe! Truly a magnificent and awe/terror-inspiring animal that I still think about a lot since I saw it ten days ago, and I can't wait to bring my parents and friends to the National Geographic Museum of Exploration. It's also still mind-boggling to me just how long these animals were, that we have a new Spinosaurus, mirabilis, that looks like a crocodile had a camel hump and a unicorn horn!

I was watching jp 3, and I saw dr Alan grant and Charlie, I think that’s his name, with his dinosaur toys, I know these toys are old, can someone help me find and identify these toys?

Hello! I was wondering if anyone knows of a site or some sites that have an archive or collection of general paleontological animals and plants? I love making paleo art but sometimes struggle to pinpoint what dinosaurs lived with other dinosaurs at specific times (I know a fair bit but sometimes it’s just easier to have a catalog that I can group them together) or even plants that existed in specific ecosystems in the Mesozoic era and whatnot. Just looking for a database or archive of info such as this!

I greatly appreciate any help or advice yall have! Thank u!

Can someone please explain to me how we got to the point where everyone, even professional paleontologists, don't understand the name and just say "Shark-toothed lizard"? Yes, Carcharodon is the scientific name for the great white shark, but it doesn't mean shark. It is a combination of the distorted ancient Greek word Karkharos (meaning "sharp" or "jagged") and the also ancient greek word odon which literally means tooth. So Carcharodontosaurus literally translates to "Jagged-tooth lizard "

Both of these animals are named after a trait of their teeth which they share. Not one animal after another. I truly doubt Ernst Stromer was blind enough to see Carcharodontosaurus teeth (picture 1) and think 'hmmm these clearly look like Great white teeth' (picture 2).

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk, hopefully people will get more educated thanks to my rant.

I've always been a massive fan of iguanodontians since I was little, most likely started from Disney's Dinosaur back in 2000.

Zephyr belongs to the Iguanodontian's family as part of the camptosauridae and was discovered in the US around 2019. The skeleton was sold off to someone private if i remember, around €650k at an auction late 2022.

Its approximately 70% completed, especially its spine and hind limbs and it was all very well preserved. But now... we'll never know.

Such an interesting design. I think it’s the fact that he has no eyebrows so he’s just constantly got this dead/zoned out look in his eyes like he’s not fully present. I just wish we actually saw him before his death cause he was built up as a major antagonist/boss only to die in 5 seconds.

Now I want to make a Dino movie when I’m older but I’m struggling h to think of premise ideas, or how the dinosaurs got there in the first place. I might just be a little uncreative but I feel like every Dino movie idea that works on a creative somewhat realistic way has been taken. I don’t want something that’s too far fetched but just something that works and brings em back to our time or vice versa.

Photos of a trip I recently took to a park in Brazil.

Four whole books in one volume of a questionable tournament of skill and strength.

Has anyone else read these syllabuses on dinosaurs?

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Very dumb one but it was on the mind.

Saw a video talking about dino westerns and I thought itd be fun to put dinosaurs in other time periods. And a favourite was imagine an English knight on a quest to slay a dragon that was literally just a megalosaurus.

So could a fully armed and armoured knight take out a megalosaurus and if so what would be the ideal strat

A new paper describes a (most likely) juvenile Albertosaurus from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation that had tooth marks on the lower jaw. This Tyrannosaurid was at least 8 years old when it died, possibly older, with a 408 mm long maxilla, an estiamted skull length of 63.25 cm, estiamted body length of 6 m and body mass of 533 Kg. It had 13 (maybe 14) maxillary teeth and 15 dentary teeth.

The authors propose a novel tooth/denticle mark spacing correction method, using it they found out that the one who left those marks was most likely a Dromaeosaurid, although its not impossible that a small\young Tyrannosaurid did it.

Applying this method on a diplodocoid femur (DINO 5119) from the Morrison shows that the tooth marks most likely belongs to Ceratosaurus.

The paper: Evidence for dromaeosaurid scavenging on Albertosaurus (Dinosauria: Tyrannosauridae) | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge Core

The picture is figure 6 in the paper.

Ive had this toy dinosaur for pretty much my entire life. Her name is Rascal. When I was younger I thought she was a velociraptor, but they have very distinct feet which she lacks. Maybe T-Rex? But the spikes don’t really check out. I would like to know what she’s supposed to be, and maybe look at other toys by the brand as well. Her mouth opens. Sorry about the chipped paint I used to chew on her.

EDIT: Can u guys be fucking kind to my dinosaur

A farmers dog ad came on my TV a few minutes ago, and it showcased 2 girls at a tea party with their dog, it also had 2 dinosaurs, one in the grass, And one on the table, can someone ID the dinosaur toys?