Extinct Animal of the Week
(formerly Dinosaur of the Week)
30 June 2013
Gentle Paralititan
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Sauropods are typically depicted as gentle giants. They were probably as aggressive as any modern animal toward a threat, but like many mo...
29 June 2013
Planets of Dinosuars
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Screen capture from Planet Dinosaur Models of Paralititan and illustrations have been made by many different artists. In all of these im...
28 June 2013
Tidal Giants
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©Dmitry Bogdanov In the Bahariya Formation of Egypt in the early 1900's Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach was a prolific discoverer of d...
27 June 2013
Fossil for Sale
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The arguments for and against the sale of fossils are all over the map; much like any other debate ranging from guns to religious freedom an...
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26 June 2013
How Do We Hunt?
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©Dmitry Bogdanov At an estimated 26.2 ft (8 m) long Deltadromeus was a fairly long ceratosaur. Majungasaurus, one of the largest ceratos...
25 June 2013
Deltadromeus Learns to Type
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Deltadromeus is mentioned in quite a few books on African dinosaurs and is, as seen on Sunday, the titular dinosaur in at least one of those...
24 June 2013
The Running Deltadromeus
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Deltadromeus was a runner. How many videos show a running Deltadromeus? The answer is very few. Dinosaur King has a few battle scenes from t...
23 June 2013
Running for Children
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I suppose it is more likely that Deltadromeus would run after children rather than for children. If dinosaurs were around like in Dinotopi...
22 June 2013
Speculative Crania
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The cranial elements of Deltadromeus are missing entirely. It is certainly not rare for skeletal elements of dinosaurs to be missing and s...
21 June 2013
Running Through the Delta
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© Nobu Tamura Basal ceratosaurs, and advanced ceratosaurs, happen to be some of my favorite theropods. Unfortunately, some of them tend ...
20 June 2013
Vaguely Popular
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Kind of a big Iguana until you get to the head Heterodontosaurus is only popular in a few circles. Good days bring us links from all ove...
19 June 2013
Everything is Bland
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Heterodontosaurus, aside from the tusks and other two types of teeth, is a very typical little dinosaur. Heterodontosaurus was small enoug...
18 June 2013
Heterodontosaurus on the Newsstand
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Artist uncredited Heterodontosaurus has been dormant for a while in research circles it appears. While the 1970's have given us lite...
17 June 2013
Scary Flesh
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The fleshed model of Heterodontosaurus that you my see in timelapse images of the construction of the model is a little frightening. The hor...
16 June 2013
Little Dinosaur for Little Kids
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Heterodontosaurus was a little dinosaur. Little kids like little dinosaurs, but that is not all of the appeal. The appeal is also that it is...
15 June 2013
Heterodontosaurus Tusks!
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Does sexual dimorphism exist in Heterodontosaurus specimens? The tusks may be a good indication of sexual dimorphism if many more specimen...
14 June 2013
You and Your Strange Teeth
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© Nobu Tamura The "Different Toothed Lizard", or Heterodontosaurus tucki , was a small, about the size of a golden retriever, ...
13 June 2013
Statues and Electronics
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From the Jurassic Park Wiki, artist uncredited There are a lot of Suchomimus out there in the world. There are statues and video games ...
12 June 2013
Jaws and Families
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©Scott Anselmo, right maxilla Suchomimus was a well equipped dinosaur. As a smaller spinosaur it was still equipped with a dorsal ridge ...
11 June 2013
Prowling for Beachgoers
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©Walter Myers (www.arcadiastreet.com) A number of papers have been written about research focusing on Suchomimus. Whether it is comparin...
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