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Dippy is a composite Diplodocus skeleton in Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and the holotype of the species Diplodocus carnegii.It is considered the most famous single dinosaur skeleton in the world, due to the numerous plaster casts donated by Andrew Carnegie to several major museums around the world at the beginning of the 20th century.
Caputegulae (Latin "skull tiles") are flat bones covering the skull bones of ankylosaurs. Together with the pyramidal-shaped horns, they form the ornamentation of the skull. Coined by William T. Blowes in 2001, [23] the term can be used for elements representing both co-ossified osteoderms or cranial sculpturing. The position of a caputegulum ...
Bucky is one of the few dinosaur fossils found with a furcula; [68] Bucky's furcula was the first one found for the genus Tyrannosaurus. [69] Bucky also has a nearly complete set of gastralia, or belly ribs, and an ulna, or lower arm bone. As of now, 101 bones, or about 34% of Bucky's skeleton, has been discovered and verified. [64]
The only remnants of this 10-metre giant were Dr Stromer’s notes, illustrations of its bones, and some photos of the original skeletons. Archived pictures show the original skeleton from Egypt ...
Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh. Photo credit: User:ScottRobertAnselmo Skeleton mount of Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
The team of paleontologists who discovered, recovered and assembled the 150-million-year-old bones from a remote site in Utah believe the find is the most complete long-necked dinosaur skeleton on ...
Tyrannosaurus (/ t ɪ ˌ r æ n ə ˈ s ɔː r ə s, t aɪ-/) [a] is a genus of large theropod dinosaur.The type species Tyrannosaurus rex (rex meaning 'king' in Latin), often shortened to T. rex or colloquially T-Rex, is one of the best represented theropods.
A new species of dinosaur has been identified more than a decade after a large number of ancient skeletons were found in Spain -- and researchers expect more species to be discovered. The ...