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  2. Dinosaur - Wikipedia

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    The first dinosaur fossils were recognized in the early 19th century, with the name "dinosaur" (meaning "terrible lizard") being coined by Sir Richard Owen in 1842 to refer to these "great fossil lizards".

  3. List of fictional reptiles - Wikipedia

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    A lizard. Nat: Video game Animal Crossing: A green chameleon that runs the bug catching tourney in Animal Crossing (City Folk and New Leaf). Noi Crezant Comic Hoshi no Samidare: A lizard Mr. E Animation Work It Out Wombats! A shopkeeper iguana. Mrs Kipling Television Jessie: Ravi's pet water monitor Private I. Guana Literature

  4. Apatosaurinae - Wikipedia

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    Apatosaurinae (the name deriving from the type genus Apatosaurus, meaning "deceptive lizard") is a subfamily of diplodocid sauropods, an extinct group of large, quadrupedal dinosaurs, the other subfamily in Diplodocidae being Diplodocinae. Apatosaurines are distinguished by their more robust, stocky builds and shorter necks proportionally to ...

  5. List of fictional dinosaurs - Wikipedia

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    Dazzle the Dinosaur: Marcus Pfister: Dinosaur Dinosaur: Dinosaur vs. Bedtime: Bob Shea: An unnamed young dinosaur taking on a series of challenges before going to bed. Edwina Alamosaurus: Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct: Mo Willems: A kind and well-loved dinosaur, ostracised only by Reginald Von Hoobie-Doobie. No name Unknown

  6. List of organisms named after works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    "The generic epithet is a combination of Tieta (nickname for Antonieta in Portuguese) and -saura (σαύρα), the genitive form of -saurus and meaning lizard in ancient Greek. The name Tieta honours the main character from the homonymous novel Tieta do Agreste by the famous author Jorge Amado, who was born in Bahia and lived in Salvador City ...

  7. Dinosaurs the Terrible Lizards - Wikipedia

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    The film's estimation is off by a couple million years both in its extinction date and its oldest dinosaur fossil date. Dinosaurs the Terrible Lizards says that the oldest dinosaur fossils were about 225 million years old, as of 2024 a 233 million year old [1] dinosaur fossil was found in Brazil. The film says that dinosaurs went extinct 70 ...

  8. The Dinosaur (short story) - Wikipedia

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    It is considered one of the shortest stories in Spanish, [1] and its whole text is the following: Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí. Meaning: When he/she/it woke, the dinosaur was still there. It is a simple sentence that forms a flash story, probably the most famous of all those published by Monterroso throughout his career.

  9. Gorgosaurus - Wikipedia

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    Gorgosaurus (/ ˌ ɡ ɔːr ɡ ə ˈ s ɔːr ə s / GOR-gə-SOR-əs; lit. ' dreadful lizard ') is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period (), between about 76.5 and 75 million years ago. [1]