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3 days ago · The name Sauropoda was coined by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1878, and is derived from Ancient Greek, meaning "lizard foot". [15] Sauropods are one of the most recognizable groups of dinosaurs, and have become a fixture in popular culture due to their impressive size. Complete sauropod fossil finds are extremely rare.
2 days ago · Pterosaurs ( / ˈtɛrəsɔːr, ˈtɛroʊ -/; [5] [6] from Greek pteron and sauros, meaning "wing lizard") [7] are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria. They existed during most of the Mesozoic: from the Late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous (228 to 66 million years ago). [8] Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates ...
1 day ago · Allosaurus ( / ˌæləˈsɔːrəs /) [2] [3] is an extinct genus of large carnosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Late Jurassic period ( Kimmeridgian to late Tithonian ages ). The name " Allosaurus " means "different lizard", alluding to its unique (at the time of its discovery) concave vertebrae.
3 days ago · Ichthyosauria ( / ˌɪkθiəˈsɔːriə /; Ancient Greek for "fish lizard" – Ancient Greek: ἰχθύς, romanized : ichthys, lit. 'fish' and Ancient Greek: σαῦρος, romanized : sauros, lit. 'lizard') is an order of large extinct marine reptiles sometimes referred to as "ichthyosaurs", although the term is also used for wider clades in ...
1 day ago · Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction action film [4] directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen, and starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Richard Attenborough. It is the first installment in the Jurassic Park franchise, and the first film in the original Jurassic Park trilogy, and is ...
6 days ago · After more than twenty years, LEGO has done what some said would never happen and made a new stegosaurus. Also joining the ranks is an allosaurus. The other set features a buildable ankylosaurus already featured in the Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous series: a super cute baby one known as Bumpy. Parts in 76966 Allosaurus Transport Truck
