Caudipteryx, or "feather-tailed," was a dinosaur during the Aptic Age of the Early Cretaceous (about 124.6 million years ago) that looked very similar to birds. On average, they were as large as a peacock. They were considered by paleontologists to be transitional between birds and non-avian dinosaurs, although the authenticity of their classification is disputed. Two species...
Hypsilophodon was a small, bipedal ornithopod. It was around 2.15 meters long and weighed around 20 kilograms. It was a nimble runner and had a sharp beak with which it bit off parts of plants. It has a horn beak, cheek pouches and 28-30 self-sharpening molars in a small skull 12 cm long and 5 cm…
Aardonyx was a basal sauropodamorph that lived in the Elliott Formation during the Early Jurassic and what is now the Free State, South Africa. He had a small head, a long neck and tail, and a large body. It was both bipedal and quadrupedal, but mostly moved on two legs. Its arms display features intermediate between prosauropods…
The dinosaur with the most teeth was the Nigersaurus taqueti. Nigersaurus taqueti was an unusual dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous with quite bizarre features. This 10 meter long herbivore became famous for its unusual almost rectangular mouth with tooth batteries of 500 teeth. It is also often referred to as the “lawnmower of the Cretaceous period”. Even if this name is not quite...
Orodromeus makelai - The "Mountain Runner" Because the more we know about dinosaurs, the more we know about how they...
Garudimimus brevipes – “Imitator of Garuda” A Garuda is a large bird-like mythical creature from Hindu and Buddhist mythology. Brevipes means something like “short foot”. As far as paleontologists know, only one fossil of Garudimimus brevipes has been discovered so far. Although it was suspected that some other fossils belonged to this dinosaur, this was not confirmed. Despite the…