“Roofed Lizard” Stegosaurus (" roofed lizard " ) was a large, slow herbivore. It lived about 150.8 to 155.7 million years ago, during the late Jurassic period. Its fossils have been found primarily in western North America. It was about the size of a bus and carried two rows of 17 to 22 large bone […]

The "Horrible Hand" For 50 YEARS Deinocheirus was only a pair of arms.But what arms! Each was 2.4 meters long and ended in three 20 centimeter long claws. The hands alone measured 60cm. That's why paleontologists Halszka Osmólska and Ewa Roniewicz, who discovered this beast in the Nemegt Formation in Mongolia's Ömnö-Gobi Aimag Province, named […]

Lizard Crest The name Saurolophus means "lizard with a crest", it comes from the ancient Greek Saurus , which can be translated as "lizard", and lophos , which means "crest". Since there are a number of nearly complete skeletal systems, archaeologists have a good idea of what Saurlophus looked like. The most prominent feature of […]