Extinct Animal of the Week

©Elise B ( Elisetrations ) As we all know, fantastic representations of dinosaurs are often not scientifically accurate or exaggerate so...

Sometimes dinosaurs with very little material seem to be much more hyped than they deserve, but when the animal is as important to the evolu...

©Jamie A Headden Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported The type material of Chaoyangsaurus consists mainly of dorsal cranial mate...

Chaoyangsaurus was initially described in 1999 by Zhao, Cheng, and Xu in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology as an early ceratopsian f...

Chaoyangsaurus is one of the smaller dinosaurs we have discussed here and it has smaller facts and yet the same amount of fact pages as man...

Ceratopsians are interesting in their own right and some might even say that they look rather interesting. Prior to the evolutionary shift t...

As usual this week, this entry is a little shorter than our typical entries for any given subject. As interesting as illustrations about Tri...

Efraasia was originally considered to be a small animal, based on fragmentary remains that could not be assembled extremely well, but it wa...

We mentioned a number of articles, descriptions, and re-descriptions of Efraasia and thankfully there are a lot of examples of this writing...

Unfortunately Efraasia never made it, yet at least, into any documentaries, cartoons, or movies. There really are not too many movies that ...

Efraasia is a well known dinosaur and has some of our typical webpages (e.g. Prehistoric Wildlife and Dinosaur Facts ) to share facts ab...

Efraasia minor (von Huene, 1907–1908) was a gracile middle-sized sauropodomorph of the Late Triassic of Germany. The name was not actually ...

Most of the illustrations of Tarchia are fairly plain. These are mostly lateral views of the dinosaur in a static posture that shows a...

The material of Tarchia is terribly incomplete to the point that size estimates of the animal are based on completely different animals, ha...

There are a number of articles and citations for Tarchia . There are a lot more citations than full articles online, but there are still art...

Despite the seemingly forgotten nature of Tarchia after the first decade or so of its known existence, that is to say after it was initia...

Here is a video full of facts about Tarchia today. There are also a number of websites that contain facts about this strangely little know...

©Nobu Tamura; listed as Minataurasaurus The name Minataurasaurus is a fairly awesome name, in my opinion. Unfortunately it has been rec...

Since the discovery of Citipati it has been a bit of media darling and a very popular dinosaur with the general public. The dinosaur has ...

©Edyta Felcyn ( Apsaravis ) Continuing where I left off last week, we can see that Citipati continues to be an animal that is often ill...