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This list of dinosaur specimens with documented taphonomic histories enumerates those fossil dinosaur specimens that have been subjected to focused efforts aimed at reconstructing the events following the animal's death and the processes by which its remains were preserved in the fossil record.
Borealopelta was a large dinosaur, measuring 5.5 metres (18 ft) long and weighing 1.3 metric tons (1.4 short tons). The Suncor specimen is remarkable for its three-dimensional preservation of a large, articulated dinosaur complete with soft tissue.
While the dinosaurs' modern-day surviving avian lineage (birds) are generally small due to the constraints of flight, many prehistoric dinosaurs (non-avian and avian) were large-bodied—the largest sauropod dinosaurs are estimated to have reached lengths of 39.7 meters (130 feet) and heights of 18 m (59 ft) and were the largest land animals of ...
What type of dinosaur it belonged to is unknown, but there have been suggestions that it was from Allosaurus. "Beelemodon": Known only from two teeth found in Wyoming. They share features of compsognathids, dromaeosaurids and basal oviraptorosaurs. "Capitalsaurus": The official dinosaur of the District of Columbia. It is known from a single ...
Sturgeon were America's vanishing dinosaurs, armor-plated beasts that crowded the nation's rivers until mankind's craving for caviar pushed them to the edge of extinction. More than a century ...
A 10-year-old found 220-million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Wales while fossil hunting.. Tegan Jones and her mother found the tracks, which hadn't been seen in over 140 years. An expert thinks a ...
Comptonatus was described as a new genus and species of iguanodontian dinosaur in 2024. The generic name , Comptonatus , combines the name of the location Compton with the Latin tonatus , meaning "thundered", and has the intended meaning of "the Compton thunderer", in reference to its discovery location and large size.
A massive, fanged creature with a head shaped like a toilet seat lurked in swamps near the edge of the world 280 million years ago, long before the first dinosaurs appeared, new research has found.