Dinosaur

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Dinosaur : any of a group (Dinosauria) of extinct often very large chiefly terrestrial carnivorous or herbivorous reptiles of the Mesozoic era — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook

Encyclopedia

Dinosaurare a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago, although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is the subject of active research. They became the dominant terrestrial vertebrates after the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event 201 million years ago; their dominance continued through the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Reverse genetic engineering and the fossil record both demonstrate that birds are modern feathered dinosaurs, having evolved from earlier theropods during the late Jurassic Period. As such, birds were the only dinosaur lineage to survive the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago. Dinosaurs can therefore be divided into avian dinosaurs, or birds; and non-avian dinosaurs, which are all dinosaurs other than birds. — Wikipedia

Dinosaur (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Dinosaurs (WolframAlpha)

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Exploration

Natural History Museums

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Adventures

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Inspiration

Dinosaur Ridge Virtual Experience (Dinosaur Ridge)
Dinosaur Ridge Museum in Colorado uses Kuula (Herb Saperstone, Kuula)
Dinosaur Ridge Virtual Experience (Kuula)
Dinosaur Ridge (Official Website)
Dinosaur Ridge (YouTube Channel)
Dinosaur Ridge (Wikipedia)

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Jaunt (YouTube Channel)
Jaunt (Facebook Page)

Dreadnoughtus (Kenneth Lacovara)
Dreadnoughtus (Wikipedia)

Giraffatitan: Back to Life in Virtual Reality (Google Arts & Culture, YouTube 360° Video)
The World of Dinosaurs (Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin)

Rhomaleosaurus: Back to Life in Virtual Reality (Google Arts & Culture, YouTube 360° Video)
Dinosaurs (Natural History Museum in London)

Prehistoric Domain: Experience the Past (Official Website)

Talks about Dinosaurs (TED: Ideas Worth Spreading)
Articles about Dinosaurs (Big Think)

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Innovation

Science

Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their paleoecology). Body fossils and trace fossils are the principal types of evidence about ancient life, and geochemical evidence has helped to decipher the evolution of life before there were organisms large enough to leave body fossils. Estimating the dates of these remains is essential but difficult: sometimes adjacent rock layers allow radiometric dating, which provides absolute dates that are accurate to within 0.5%, but more often paleontologists have to rely on relative dating by solving the “jigsaw puzzles” of biostratigraphy (arrangement of rock layers from youngest to oldest). — Wikipedia

Paleontology (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Dinosaur Paleontology Resources (Dino Russ)

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Preservation

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Participation

Education

Dinosaurs (Ology, American Museum of Natural History)
Dinosaurs (Science Trek)

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Community

News

Dinosaurs (EurekaAlert, American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Dinosaurs (bioRxiv: Preprint Server for Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Dinosaurs (JSTOR)
Dinosaurs (Science Daily)
Dinosaurs (Science News)
Dinosaurs (Phys.org)
Dinosaurs (NPR Archives)

Government

Dinosaur National Monument (National Park Service)
Where did dinosaurs live? (United States Geological Survey)

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Dinosaurs News -- ScienceDaily All about dinosaurs. Read about dinosaur discoveries including gigantic meat-eating dinosaurs, earliest dinosaurs and more. Dinosaur pictures and articles.

This 150-million-year-old bird had dinosaur teeth...
on October 24, 2026 at 2:42 am
A 150-million-year-old fossil discovered in China reveals a bizarre early bird with sharp teeth, a dinosaur-like claw, and a body built for life on the ground rather than flight. Scientists believe it represents the earliest known example of flight loss in birds, overturning assumptions about how these animals evolved.
A massive asteroid slammed into the North Sea and...
on October 21, 2026 at 4:08 am
A decades-long mystery beneath the North Sea has finally been solved. Scientists have confirmed that the Silverpit Crater, buried 700 meters below the seabed, was created when a 160-meter-wide asteroid struck Earth roughly 43 to 46 million years ago. The violent collision blasted a towering curtain of rock and water 1.5 kilometers into the air and triggered a tsunami more than 100 meters high.
Scientists discover a bizarre Jurassic...
on October 20, 2026 at 12:20 pm
Scientists have identified the “fattest” belemnite ever discovered, a bizarre, barrel-shaped squid relative that lived in Wyoming’s ancient seas 160 million years ago. The exceptionally rare fossils reveal a creature unlike anything previously known, potentially a predator of smaller squid-like animals and a surprising survivor of a supposedly vanished family.
Archaeologists discover 1,200-year-old mummified...
on October 18, 2026 at 2:32 am
Archaeologists have discovered 1,200-year-old remains of Peru’s famous hairless dogs at an ancient Wari Empire burial site, including remarkably preserved mummies and puppies buried alongside humans. Their unusual teeth, diets, and burial arrangements reveal surprising clues about how ancient Peruvians cared for, bred, and sometimes discarded their dogs.
A forgotten fossil reveals a fearsome dinosaur...
on October 14, 2026 at 10:51 pm
A 120-million-year-old fossil forgotten in a museum for nearly a century has revealed a terrifying new dinosaur that may have been more dangerous to humans than a T. rex. The tiger-sized predator also provides the first evidence of megaraptorans in Europe, helping explain how these mysterious dinosaurs eventually became gigantic hunters.

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How flare ribbons reveal hidden solar explosions...
on October 24, 2026 at 6:00 pm
Many topics in astronomy and astrophysics are esoteric. There's not much of a relationship between something like the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way and the life of a regular person going about their business. But the sun is different. Its presence in our lives is inescapable. Its behavior, especially its flaring, has an impact.
New long‑clawed British dinosaur is the first...
on October 24, 2026 at 12:00 pm
The fossilized skull of a new species of mysterious meat-eating dinosaur from the Isle of Wight has been rediscovered in the collections of the Natural History Museum after over 100 years in storage.
Keeping to warm climates may have helped...
on October 21, 2026 at 6:00 pm
Keeping to warm climates throughout their 250-million-year history may have helped crocodiles and their relatives survive the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, finds a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers.
Earth's oldest evidence of life is written in...
on October 18, 2026 at 9:00 pm
Today, our planet is teeming with life, but it has not always looked the same. Long before forests reached skyward, animals walked on land and dinosaurs rose and fell, our planet was shaped by a much smaller, more unassuming form of life. And we can still find traces of it today.
Fossil footprints reveal how dinosaur ancestors...
on October 15, 2026 at 2:20 pm
A research team led by Dr. Lorenzo Marchetti of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin described the earliest archosauriform footprints (Pachychirotherium gardenaensis) from the GEOPARC Bletterbach—UNESCO World Heritage Dolomites, Italy.