Articles that give more knowledge about dinosaurs
Imagine living a hundred million years ago and having an encounter with a dinosaur. Sounds frightening yet exciting, right? One dinosaur is enough to set you running on your feet. This famous formation called Kem Kem Beds is considered the most dangerous place on the planet then and most probably now (if the dinos are …
When talking about fossils, we all know that these are remains of past living animals like bones and teeth, always the hardest part of the creature’s body. Now discovering a dinosaur fossil with its skin might be shocking to hear, but an absolute addition to the growing studies and findings made about the dinosaurs and …
Triceratops is one of the most famous dinosaurs attributed to its unique feature: the three horns in its head. Looking at a Triceratops, you might have compared it to elephants of the modern days because of its tusks and striking body similarity. Both are equally magnificent, but it will also be nice to know the …
The Giganotosaurus was a theropod that lived during the Cretaceous Period about 99 million years ago. We know it came from today’s Argentina, but what was the Giganotosaurus’ environment like during its lifetime? The Giganotosaurus’ habitat was believed to have been quite warm as well as windy and arid. The Candeleros Formation in Argentina where …
Tyrannosaurus Rex is known to be one of the most ferocious theropods ever lived on planet earth. They have a massive body, sharp teeth, and jaws, and it is so powerful that it can even crush a car. With their strong jaw power, you might be curious how many teeth T. Rex has, enabling it …
Pterosaurs were the first recorded vertebrates to have evolved the power of flight. With the ability to fly, we can expect them to reach wide places and travel large distances. The question now will be where they laid their eggs around the place as they traveled. The places where they have their egg can be …
The Baryonyx was a huge theropod dinosaur related to Spinosaurus. It was among the largest carnivorous dinosaurs ever discovered at the time of its discovery. It lived in modern-day Africa and Europe and is estimated to have lived during the middle Cretaceous period. So what makes the Baryonyx related to Spinosaurus? Spinosaurus and Baryonyx are both …
Pterodactyls, technically pterosaurs, might have had beaks, but within their mouth were roughly 90 teeth. They could spear food with their beaks and then chew on it, but what exactly did the pterosaur diet look like? Pterodactyls frequently ate fish as well as insects and other invertebrates like them. Meat sources were also appealing to …
Intelligence in animals is one thing scientists study to gain information on the hierarchy of life on the planet. Studying intelligence is challenging on living animals, what more with extinct ones such as dinosaurs. With difficulty knowing and ranking intelligence, scientists made a standard measure to gauge intelligence based on brain and body ratio called …
Based on the dinosaur illustrations that many of us grew up seeing and movies such as the Jurassic Park series, people tend to believe that dinosaurs had smooth, lizard-like skin. While that’s true of some species, evidence suggests that many more dinosaurs were covered in feathers. How do we know this? We know that dinosaurs had feathers …
