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Brachiosaurus
The Brachiosaurus is a
famous dinosaur that lived
during the Jurassic period.
One of the largest ever
dinosaurs to walk the earth,
it has become a famous
animal synonymous with
dinosaurs, and is widely
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Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus, meaning "plated
lizard", because of the
plates on its back was a
genus of large herbivorous
dinosaurs from the Upper
Jurassic of North America.
It is among the most easily
identifiable dinosaurs, due
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Paralititan
Paralititan stromeri was a
giant titanosaurian sauropod
dinosaur discovered in
coastal deposits in the
Upper Cretaceous Bahariya
Formation of Egypt. The
fossil represents the first
tetrapod reported from the
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Hadrosaurus
Hadrosaurus is a hadrosaurid
dinosaur genus. In 1858, a
skeleton of a dinosaur from
this genus was the first
full dinosaur skeleton found
in North America, and in
1868 it became the first
ever mounted dinosaur
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous period is one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, reaching from the end of the Jurassic period, about 146 million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the Paleocene epoch ... > more -
Triceratops
Triceratops, meaning "three-horned face", because it had three horns was a ceratopsid herbivorous dinosaur genus from the Latest Cretaceous period of what is now North America. It lived at around the ... > more -
Feathered dinosaurs
The realization that dinosaurs are closely related to birds raised the obvious possibility that some dinosaurs had feathers. Fossils of Archaeopteryx include well-preserved feathers, but it was not ... > more -
Hadrosaurid
Hadrosaurids or duck-billed dinosaurs are members of the superfamily Hadrosauroidea, and include ornithopods such as Edmontosaurus and Parasaurolophus. They were common herbivores in the Upper ... > more -
Archaeopteryx
Archaeopteryx lithographica is the earliest and most primitive known bird. In the 1990s, the discovery of a number of well-preserved feathered dinosaurs solidified the link between dinosaurs and ... > more -
Trace fossil
Trace fossils are those details preserved in rocks that are indirect evidence of life. While we are most familiar with relatively spectacular fossil hard part remains such as shells and bones, trace ... > more -
Albertosaurus
Albertosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, more than 70 million years ... > more -
Velociraptor
Velociraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed approximately 83 to 70 million years ago during the later part of the Cretaceous Period. There is only one universally ... > more
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