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Dino Fact!

Torvosaurus (Savage Lizard) is a megalosaurid from Late Jurassic Europe and North America! At an average size of 9 meters long, with some specimens reaching near 11 meters, it's one of the largest known theropods of the Jurassic- (1/3)

Art by Corbin Rainbolt!

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2022-07-25

A chase occurs on the Isle of Wight (Circa. 125 mya) a mob of Ceratosuchops chases, grabs, and tugs on a Mantellisaurus, an iguanodont who is speedier than its bulkier cousin but still is no match for the coordination of the mobbing spinosaurids.

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2022-07-15

Introducing the Dracoficedula Ceaseria, also known as the Common Dracophage. These nyctosaurid pterosaurs are long-distance fliers with a taste for fish and other pterosaurs on the wing. Males reach about 250 pounds, and are only topped by azdarchids in size.

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2022-07-14

Heterodontosaurus, female and male respectively, a small heterodontosaurid ornitischian from the Early Jurassic. Based on Scott Hartman's skeletal.

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2022-07-14

apparently its I draw dinosaurs, pterosaurs, mosasaurs, ammonites and kin e.c.t but mainly focus on maniraptoran dinosaurs, nyctosaurid pterosaurs and azhdarchid pterosaurs!!!

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2022-07-13

Good day for theropods! Published today are the full description of Eotyrannus by and Andrea Cau, and a new short-armed carcharodontosaurid, Meraxes gigas, authored by Juan Canale et al.!

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2022-07-08

A comparison of spinosauridae, a group of fish-eating theropods that flourished during the Cretaceous Period.

(Photo Saurian)

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2022-07-07

im a huge fan of all dromaeosauridae but my top two would be the iconic Velociraptor, or the underrated Microraptor!!!

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2022-07-02

Herbivores will rarely pass up an opportunity for an easy protein snack. Such as this hadrosaurid Gobihadros mongoliensis taking the chick of an early waterfowl from it's nest on the banks of a Late Cretaceous river.

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2022-07-02

All those epoccipitals were fake teeth I'm telling you. They were mimicking not just exaggerated stares, but also monstrous open mouths ready to gobble their enemies up. Tyrannosaurids had nightmares about these. :B

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2022-06-30

Dino Fact!

Chindesaurus (Chinde Lizard) is a herrerasaurid(?) from Late Triassic North America! Its taxonomy is rather hard to pinpoint! It's mainly been considered a herrerasaurid, but some theorize that it was really a basal theropod, which - (1/2)

Art by @/Paleoartologist!

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2022-06-24

Miragaia was a stegosaurid from Portugal. It reached around 6 meters long and had an unusually long neck.

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2022-06-23

Dino Fact!

Herrerasaurus (Herrera’s Lizard) is a herrerasaurid from Late Triassic Argentina! It's one of the earliest known dinosaurs to date! Its taxonomy has been a heavily debated topic for years; most at least agree that it's some kind - (1/2)

Art by @/jackthevulture!

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2022-06-20

Guemesia ochoai is the first definitive abelisaurid theropod from Northwestern Argentina. The genus name honours General Martin Miguel de Güemes who defended northwestern Argentina during the War of Independence. He died 1821
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2022-06-17

NEW SPINOSAURID DISCOVERY!!! As soon as I heard the news I quickly sketched a life reconstruction ASAP!
Congrats to et al., (2022) for the release of the paper!!!

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2022-06-09

New theropod from North Africa by Salem et al. "First definitive record of Abelisauridae (Theropoda: Ceratosauria) from the Bahariya Formation, Bahariya Oasis, Western of in https://t.co/aokzS2rWQL

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2022-06-09

Dino Fact!

Crichtonsaurus (Crichton’s Lizard) is an ankylosaurid from Late Cretaceous China! Its name is in honor of Michael Crichton, the author of the original Jurassic Park novel and its sequel The Lost World, which spawned the infamous movie- (1/2)

Art by Green-Mamba!

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2022-06-09