“The Covered Lizard” The Stegosaurus (“covered lizard”) was a large, slow-moving herbivore. It lived about 150.8 to 155.7 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic Period. Its fossils were found primarily in western North America. He was about the size of a bus and had two rows of 17 to 22 large bone plates on his neck,...
The Terrible Hand For 50 YEARS, Deinocheirus was just a pair of arms. But what arms! Each was 2.4 meters long and ended in three 20 centimeter long claws. The hands alone measured 60 cm. Paleontologists Halszka Osmólska and Ewa Roniewicz, who discovered this beast in the Nemegt Formation in Mongolia's Ömnö-Gobi-Aimag province, named it...
Lizard with a crest The name Saurolophus means “lizard with a crest”, it comes from the ancient Greek saurus , which can be translated as “lizard”, and lophos , which means “comb”. Because there are a number of nearly complete skeletal systems, archaeologists have a good idea of what Saurlophus looked like. The most prominent feature of Saurolophus is…