Extinct Animal of the Week

©Michael Skrepnick Images of Gorgosaurus tend to look a lot like its tyrannosaur brethren. That, of course, is okay considering that Gorg...

Living at the same time and more than likely in some of the same areas as Daspletosaurus, Gorgosaurus was a slightly smaller tyrannosaurid ...

Monoclonius, we have now seen, does not truly exist for a multitude of reasons. Actually, it exists, it's just its own separate genus or...

Monoclonius was discovered and described and named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1876. Since then we know that all of the species in the genus h...

In the 1992 edition of Dinosaur Systematics edited by Carpenter and Currie there are quite a few mentions of Monoclonius and discussions ov...

Monoclonius made its mark on the 1980's cartoon DinoRiders , but it's real big time on the screen was in Robert Guenette's ...

Just a few points today, I know everyone is busy today: DinosForKids Enchanted Learning Coloring:

Monoclonius may not exist, we said as much yesterday. However, it is clear that the artist's conceptions, overall, would place this dino...

I thought a long time what to do with this week's dinosaur. The reason is, as a kid, you grow up caring little for the quibbles and fig...

Because we know that Eustreptospondylus has only made an impact really through Walking with Dinosaurs I am doing almost zero talking today a...

Finally I feel almost human. My back from about my 7th ribs up to the back of my head is killing me though. Sore muscles from coughing are n...

So, there are quite a few good papers about on Eustreptospondylus. Unfortunately, it's one of those dinosaurs where I can't post PDF...

Rather than try to post the entire episode Cruel Sea today, I found this montage of clips from the episode which should suffice. Other than ...

I'm still not feeling well friends. However, to do my duty, here is, today, the two solid links I found for our dinosaur on DinosForKids...

Eustreptospondylus is a typical Megalosaurid theropod. Two arms, two legs, big teeth, long fairly stable tail, tridactyl toes and fingers. T...

Eustreptospondylus, which sounds a lot like streptococcus (which I always think I have when I get a sore throat), was a medium sized Jurass...

As noted, Supersaurus has appeared in many documentaries and in many other places. There was that website DinosaurDays.com, there was Mammal...

Oh!, that Vivian and Eddie Jones! Supersaurus was found by Vivian Jones, no not this Vivian Jones or even that Vivian Jones . No, Vivian...

Supersaurus is as big in the recent (past 30 years) history of paleontology as it was in its era of plant eating domination. A gut as large ...

Supersaurus lived longer than 100 years at times, couldn't chew its food, and had a 35 foot long neck. I won't spoil all the facts t...