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  2. Cultural depictions of dinosaurs - Wikipedia

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    Protoceratops skeleton at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center. The classical folklorist Adrienne Mayor has proposed that the profusion of literary descriptions and imagery of the griffin in Greek and Roman literature and art beginning in the 7th century BC to the 3rd century AD were influenced by observations and travelers' accounts of fossilized beaked dinosaur skeletons found in the Turpan and ...

  3. Tyrannosaurus in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Since then, popular culture has consistently depicted Tyrannosaurs as "King of the Dinosaurs," analogous to the lion's depiction as "King of Beasts." According to paleontologist and museum curator Mark Norell , Tyrannosaurus rex "continues to be a subject of fascination, a popular icon, and probably the first dinosaur name imprinted in the ...

  4. Category:Dinosaurs in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Dinosaurs in popular culture" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  5. Stegosaurus in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Stegosaurus is one of the most recognizable types among cultural depictions of dinosaurs. [1] It has been depicted on film, in cartoons, comics, as children's toys, as sculpture, and even was declared the state dinosaur of Colorado in 1982. [2] Stegosaurus is a subject for inclusion in dinosaur toy and scale model lines, such as the Carnegie ...

  6. Dinosaur renaissance - Wikipedia

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    Around 1880, dinosaurs were largely treated as a monophyletic group (i.e. having a last common ancestor not shared with other reptiles). However, Harry Seeley disagreed with this interpretation, and split the Dinosauria into two orders, the Saurischia ("lizard-hipped") and the Ornithischia ("bird-hipped"), which were seen as members of the Archosauria with no special relationship to each other.

  7. Dinosaur - Wikipedia

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    As such, they have captured the popular imagination and become an enduring part of human culture. The entry of the word "dinosaur" into the common vernacular reflects the animals' cultural importance: in English, "dinosaur" is commonly used to describe anything that is impractically large, obsolete, or bound for extinction. [331]

  8. Prehistoric Planet - Wikipedia

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    Prehistoric Planet is a British–American nature documentary television series about dinosaurs, that premiered on Apple TV+ beginning May 23, 2022. It is produced by the BBC Studios Natural History Unit, with Jon Favreau as showrunner, visual effects by The Moving Picture Company, and narration by natural historian Sir David Attenborough. [1]

  9. Crystal Palace Dinosaurs - Wikipedia

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    The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs are a series of sculptures of dinosaurs and other extinct animals, inaccurate by modern standards, in the London borough of Bromley's Crystal Palace Park. Commissioned in 1852 to accompany the Crystal Palace after its move from the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park , they were unveiled in 1854 as the first dinosaur ...