When: Late Cretaceous (approx. 80 million years ago – 66 million years ago) Where: Salta Province, Argentina What: Armoured sauropod Size: 10 – 12m (≈ 33 – 39ft) Meaning of name: Lizard from Salta Diet: Herbivore “File:Saltasaurus size.png” by PaleoNeolitic is marked withCC0 1.0. “Saltasaurus” by Ignacio A. Cerda and Jaime E. Powell is licensed under CC BY 2.0.ContinueContinue reading “Saltasaurus”
Category Archives: Land Animals
Oviraptor
When: 89.8 million years ago – 70.6 million years ago (Late Cretaceous) Where: Asia, mainly Mongolia What: Bird-like feathered dinosaur often found protecting nests Size: 1.5 to 2m long Meaning of Name: egg-seizer Diet: Omnivore “Oviraptor (Skeleton, Skelett)” by Georg Sander is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 Above, you can see an image of an Oviraptor skeleton, and youContinueContinue reading “Oviraptor”
Therizinosaurus
This is a fairly well-known dinosaur, probably because of it’s whopping 71cm (7ft) long claws! When: Campanian part of the late Cretaceous Where: Asia, Far East – Kazakhstan, Mongolia, etc. What: Large dinosaur with seemingly out of proportion claws Meaning of name: Scythe Lizard Size: 9 – 10m (roughly 30 – 33ft) Diet: debated “File:TherizinosaurusContinueContinue reading “Therizinosaurus”
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