The dinosaurs we love
Triceratops
A plant-eater that ended up in a tyrannosaur’s meal.
Bazonka, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page
The model is the Smilodon page
Dinosaurs
The ones we love, and the ones you have not heard of. Each page has a free image, a map, what we know, what we do not know yet, a timeline, a role in the ecosystem, and the sources.
The Smilodon page, the model · The deep-time map
The dinosaurs we love
The dinosaurs we love
Stegosaurus
A Morrison plant-eater with a stronger bite than its skull suggests.
Vicpeters, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page
The dinosaurs you’ve never heard of
The dinosaurs you’ve never heard of
Borealopelta
An armored plant-eater with a fern meal still inside it.
Chris Woodrich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page
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The dinosaurs you’ve never heard of
Nigersaurus
A plant-eater that cropped the ground, not the treetops.
Sereno and others, 2007. CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. A scientific figure, not a mounted skeleton. File page
Not on the site yet
This first set is four pages: the ones with a free image large enough to use, and a place that could be cited without inventing a dot.
- Tyrannosaurus rex — Many quarries, and it is easy to say more than the papers say. Next, not skipped.
- Velociraptor — The animal and the movie animal are easy to mix up. It needs its own careful page.
- Brachiosaurus and Giraffatitan — The famous Berlin skeleton is Giraffatitan, not Brachiosaurus. That page has to keep the two names apart.
- Spinosaurus — The body shape is still being revised. A short page would freeze a picture the papers have not finished.
- Mononykus — The American Museum mount is real, and the best free photo found is 2592 pixels wide, under the 3840-pixel bar used for this batch.
- Yi qi — One fossil, and how it flew is still argued. Deferred so the flight claim is not rushed.
- Kosmoceratops — The skull figure is free. Deferred so this batch stayed at four.
- Halszkaraptor — Deferred with the others. A later page has to deal with where the holotype was collected.