Gorgosaurus libratus - "The Dreadful Lizard" Gorgosaurus libratus is a species of dinosaur found in Alberta, Canada, named by Lawrence Lambe in 1914. The name Gorgosaurus comes from the Greek for "dreadful lizard". It is a bipedal carnivore weighing up to 2400 kg and 8-9 m long. It is proved to have lived 76.6 to […]

Cryolophosaurus - „Cold Crest Lizard“ Cryolophosaurus was a 6 to 7 meter long theropod with slender proportions. It is one of the earliest carnivores found to date. Weighing an estimated 465 kilograms, it is currently the largest known theropod from the early Jurassic. The specimen found is believed to be a juvenile animal. Adult animals of […]

Stygimoloch spinifer Stygimoloch is one of the more recent additions to the diaspora of paleontology. These resident dinosaurs not only have a curious name root, but were also remarkable in their small size relative to the time in which they lived. In 1983, British paleontologist Peter M. Galton and German paleontologist Hans-Dieter Sues first described […]