Dinosaur Clades
Switching diets can be tough, but this family of pot-bellied theropods managed to become large herbivores throughout the Cretaceous Period.
Therizinosaurs
In 1915, this museum became the first in the world to mount a skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex at the direction of its curator, Henry Fairfield Osborn
American Museum of Natural History
The main antagonist of the film Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, named Rudy, is an albino version of this dinosaur genus.
Baryonyx
Nicknamed "Darwin's Bulldog", this 19th century paleontologist was one of the first to theorize that birds are the direct descendants of dinosaurs.
Thomas Henry Huxley
With a dual row of spines running down its back, this Argentinian sauropod would have been quite the sight during the Early Cretaceous
Amargasaurus
While Centrosaurs and Chasmosaurs are the most famous ceratopsians to call North America home during the Late Cretaceous, this smaller family also carved out niches in both Laramidia and Appalachia.
Leptoceratopsids
Once a tropical lagoon in a European archipelago, this formation has become well known for its limestone deposits and the early birds found within.
Solnhofen
In the 2008 film Journey to the Center of the Earth, this dinosaur chases after Brendan Fraser and Josh Hutcherson after they enter the planet's core
Tyrannosaurus rex
Though this group of ugly mammalian omnivores are frequently compared to pigs, their true relatives are whales and hippos.
Enteledonts
Was this South American taxa the world's oldest dinosaur? If you ask Paul Sereno, who described it in 1993, it just might be!
Eoraptor
Though this clade lived for a very short period of time during the Jurassic, their bat-like appearance has left quite the impression.
Scansoriopterygians
This American state is well known for its Cenozoic fossil deposits, including the Agate Fossil Beds and the site of two Columbian Mammoths forever locked in combat.
Nebraska
All aboard! In 2009, PBS kids debuted the series Dinosaur Train, whose scientific advice came courtesy of this paleontologist.
Scott Sampson
Commissioned by the AMNH, this Charles Knight piece features two Dryptosaurus engaged in combat, though this is not what they were known as at the time.
Leaping Laelaps
A genus of Jurassic Ankylosaur, you may see this dinosaurs namesake in monuments of gothic architecture.
Gargoyleosaurus
A family of dromaeosaurids from Gondwana, this lineage is recognizable for their elongated snouts and slender builts.
Unenlagiinae
Happy Easter! In 1978, paleontologist Jack Horner began to excavate this fossil site in Montana, which contained thousands of dinosaur eggs belonging to the hadrosaur Maiasaura.
Egg Mountain.
In 1918, this film became the first major motion picture to feature dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus, and Triceratops in a major capacity.
The Ghost of Slumber Mountain
In 1841, Richard Owen described the remains of this genus, the first named sauropod in scientific literature
Cetiosaurus
In a fitting epilogue to the Bone Wars, both Othneilia and Drinker were reclassified to this genus of small ornithopod.
Nanosaurus
The sister clade to Abelisaurids, members of this theropod lineage include Masiakasaurus and Elaphrosaurus
Noasauridae
Any fish owners can relate to the animals found at this Chilean fossil site, who all died when a massive algal bloom suffocated the waters of the Pacific Ocean.
Cerro Ballena
In Jurassic Fight Club, this prehistoric toothed whale is seen combating Megalodon for control of Miocene oceans.
Brygmophyseter
While these two bones are small in most animals, they make up the entire crest of Lambeosaurine hadrosaurs.
Premaxilla and Nasal
Feathers weren't just present on theropods; just ask this small Heterodontosaur from the Jurassic of China.
Tianyulong