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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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.

A 30-year-old fossil was hiding bones from a...
on August 15, 2026 at 2:19 pm
Fossils collected in Osaka more than 30 years ago have revealed a surprise hiding in plain sight: four previously unrecognized bones from a giant Cretaceous mosasaur. Among them is the first confirmed premaxilla—the frontmost bone of the upper jaw—ever identified in a Japanese mosasaur fossil. Even more intriguing, parts of the skull show unusual anatomical features that don’t match known mosasaurs, raising the possibility that the remains belong to an entirely new species.
Paleontology rocked by organic molecules found in...
on August 14, 2026 at 9:51 am
Researchers have found strong evidence that original collagen can survive inside dinosaur fossils for tens of millions of years, overturning a long-standing assumption about fossilization. The discovery could unlock hidden molecular clues about dinosaur biology, evolution, and how ancient proteins managed to survive for so long.
150-million-year-old dinosaur footprints reveal...
on August 11, 2026 at 5:03 am
A spectacular 150-million-year-old trail of more than 130 footprints captures a giant sauropod making a complete loop before continuing on its way. Its uneven stride hints that the long-necked dinosaur may have been walking with a limp.
240-million-year-old reptile fossil reveals a...
on August 10, 2026 at 11:40 am
A 240-million-year-old reptile discovered in Brazil is revealing what evolution looked like just before the rise of dinosaurs and crocodiles. The small predator had unusually positioned legs that may have allowed it to move more efficiently than many earlier reptiles. Its close relatives were previously known mostly from other continents, suggesting these ancient animals spread much farther across the Triassic world than scientists realized.
Dinosaurs became giants — so why did they never...
on August 9, 2026 at 10:15 am
Dinosaurs conquered the land at enormous sizes, but strangely, they almost never evolved into truly tiny animals. New research suggests that physiology alone can’t explain this missing miniature end of the dinosaur spectrum—and that early mammals may have been partly responsible. While dinosaurs kept mammals from becoming large, small mammals may have returned the favor by occupying ecological niches that could otherwise have supported mouse-sized dinosaurs.

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'Starwashing': How space companies use the...
on August 15, 2026 at 1:00 am
From launchpads to low Earth orbit and beyond, space companies and their affiliates are deploying a familiar marketing tactic—with a new twist. In a space economy projected to reach US$1.8 trillion by 2035, they sell space exploration narratives by appealing to a desire to expand humankind beyond Earth—while downplaying or omitting the negative repercussions for Earth and the space environment. Welcome to the age of starwashing.
Crocodiles can't fly. Birds can. Scientists have...
on August 14, 2026 at 11:10 am
The closest living relatives of crocodiles and alligators are, perhaps surprisingly, birds. Both are archosauriforms, a group of species that originated about 250 million years ago near the beginning of the Triassic period.
Why has Britain's grass turned yellow? A plant...
on August 14, 2026 at 12:40 am
Fields, parks and lawns across Europe have turned to straw this summer. Landscapes thousands of years old have been revealed as green outlines against yellow backgrounds, where ancient underground walls and ditches retain enough water to sustain pockets of grass above them. Lawns and parklands have been especially affected because what water is available is being directed to homes and farms.
Climate change decided who ruled as top predator...
on August 13, 2026 at 5:40 pm
An international team of researchers from Belgium, France, Switzerland, Spain and the U.S. has reconstructed the evolution of body mass in carnivorous mammals during the Paleogene—a crucial window in the diversification of mammals that followed the extinction of dinosaurs. This work, published in Biology Letters, challenges the long-standing hypothesis that competition decided the fate of ancient top predators.
New evidence helps solve how earliest birds took...
on August 12, 2026 at 6:20 pm
The first bird to inhabit Earth used its robust hind legs to make two or three powerful leaps while flapping its way to flight, according to a study by the University of Southampton published in Developmental Biology.