Check out these theropod munch marks on an Apatosaurus bone. #FossilFriday This was one of the awesome replicas displayed at Disney’s DinoLand USA. It is an Apatosaurus ischium showing deep bite marks made by a large theropod, probably made by an Allosaurus or a Ceratosaurus. It is from the famous Jurassic Morrison Formation, and the original is on display at Dinosaur Journey in Fruita, Colorado. This specimen was described in 2023 by Lei et al. 2023. Bite and tooth marks on sauropod dinosaurs f
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The stunning theropod dinosaur, Juravenator for #FossilFriday 🦖 Known from a single, juvenile skeleton, this pint-sized predator lived around 151 million years ago. I got to see this lil beauty on a research trip to the Jura Museum in Eichstätt, Germany. | Dr Dean Lomax - Palaeontologist
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Who let the sauropod lad talk about a theropod??? 🙂 An outtake at the Brigham Young University Museum of Paleontology in Provo, Utah. I finally had the opportunity to hold a skull (Gen 1 cast) of one of the coolest looking theropods out there, only to freeze up trying to recall its name! #Suchomimus (“crocodile mimic”) has *lots* of teeth and a nostril a tad back from the tip of the snout that opens laterally. This differs from the at-first-glance similarity to crocodiles, who have dorsal openi
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Growing Up Is Hard! #Allosaurus, the well known Late #Jurassic #theropod provides incredible sample sizes for study. From one quarry, the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry (it can be found at the Jurassic National Monument), a growth series of Allosaurus was constructed. Here you see the femora of tiny individuals all the way to full adults. Though these are casts, the originals are housed at the Natural History Museum in Salt Lake City. This display is at the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum in Pri
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What a find! An Allosaurus “different lizard” Marsh 1877, Late #Jurassic #theropod #dinosaur articulated skeleton discovered in the classic death pose, aka #opisthotonic position. The “Death Pose” is a common way of finding articulated #dinosaur skeletons. Dubbed opisthotonic “behind tension” because of the hyperextension of the neck which results in the head nearly touching the take, it wasn’t until recently a repeatable hypothesis was derived to account for the “lneck being thrown backwards. S
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This small theropod from the Cretaceous period experienced great controversy in its year of description (2020) #dinosaur #dinoworld #usa #newyork | Dinosaurs Zoo
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Tracks, tracks, and more tracks! #Batrachopus is a super cool track made by a possibly bipedal #Triassic #crocodylomorph. These tracks are from southern Utah, but similar tracks have been identified in Europe and Asia, from the Late Triassic to Early Cretaceous. Trackways get genus and species names! Batrachopus may also be #Antipus, #Sustenodactylus (=Stenodactylus), and those are but a few of the *14* genera and *27* species of tracks that the late, great Lockley synonymized, or at least stron
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‘Allo, mate! This #Allosaurus is on display at the Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. Like all great National Monuments, this one is stunning! The wall is a spiritual experience for paleontologists; climbing on it is indescribably cool. From the Monument heralds some of the most iconic dinosaurs around, including my favorite, CM 11338, a juvenile #Camarasaurus, though CM 3018, #Apatosaurus louisae and AMNH 6341 #Barosaurus are no slouches :-). This video shows a feaster upon my beloved #sauropo
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Spinosaurus! Only #Tyrannosaurus and #Nanotyrannus cause as much passionate debates as #Spinosaurus. Was it an aquatic pursuit predator? Did it walk along the shore like a heron? How about a fully terrestrial existence? How powerful was its bite? Was it mercilessly bullied into the banks, then the water itself, by more proper #theropod #dinosaurs like #Carcharodontosaurus (ironically a terrestrial predator named after an aquatic toothy similarity)? What was the tall sail used for? A billboard to
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Scary theropod dinosaurs are cool and all, but after a while, they all start to look the same. That's why Park Ranger Marty is taking the time to highlight this very distinctive horned predator, Ceratosaurus, on this #FossilFriday episode! #Friday #Fossil #STEAM #STEM #Jurassic #JurassicQuest #Dinosaur #Morrison | Jurassic Quest
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The not so giant Giganotosaurus :-) #Giganotosaurus is always in the discussion for the longest and heaviest #theropod #dinosaurs that ever lived title. At over 40’ long and 6 tons, it was a terror to behold I’m certain. I am also certain I would relish the chance to see a living one :-). Named in 1995 by Coria and Salgado from the Candeleros Fm in Argentina, ~95 mya, it is one of the most complete large #theropod #dinosaurs ever discovered. You’ll read 70% complete, but how is one measuring %?
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A genus of large theropod dinosaur: T-Rex #science #sciencefacts #facts #fypシ゚ #fyp #foryou #reelitfeelit #reels #viral | Astrowonders
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A wonderful display showing just a snippet of diversity among theropod skulls. It really shows just how teeny, tiny Velociraptor is – remember, turkey-sized dino. #FossilFriday Without reading on, can you identify them all? No cheating. These casts are on display at the The Academy of Natural Sciences. Up first, we have the Late Triassic Eoraptor (actually an early sauropod!) and Herrerasaurus, then Early Jurassic Dilophosaurus, and then into the Cretaceous with Majungasaurus, big ol’ Acrocantho
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Tameryraptor markgrafi is a recently named theropod dinosaur from North Africa. For a long time, the fossil material was thought to belong to Carcharodontosaurus, and even earlier, it had been assigned to Megalosaurus saharicus. However, in 2024, paleontologists Kellermann, Cuesta, and Rauhut re-examined the evidence—mainly old photographs of the fossils, as the originals were destroyed during World War II—and determined it was distinct enough to warrant a new genus and species: Tameryraptor mar
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We uncovered theropod teeth along with a large rib at this wash deposit #paleontology #triceratops #tyrannosaurus #cre #fossil #fossilwatch #fossiloriginal #fossiladdict #fossils #fossilindonesia #fossilbag #fossilmurah #paleontology #tasfossil #fossilgen #jamfossil #coach #fossilori #fossilpreloved #fossilauthentic #dinosaur #fossilwallet #geology #fossilvintage #fossilsale #sale #michaelkors #fossilsecond #jualfossil #katespade #watch #fossilrare #dompetfossil #fossillovers | Luke Sutton
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Skorpiovenator was a medium sized abelisaurid theropod from the Late Cretaceous of what is now Argentina. Estimates commonly place it around 6 to 7 meters long (20 to 23 feet). Like other abelisaurids, it had a short deep skull and robust jaws, suggesting a predator adapted for powerful head and neck driven biting. There is no direct fossil evidence showing exactly what Skorpiovenator ate, so specific prey choices such as juvenile sauropods remain hypotheses rather than confirmed behavior. Adult
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A tiny insectivorous alvarezsaurid theropod from the deserts of Asia. It possess a single enlarged claw on each hand that it uses to break into termite nests.Prehistoric deserts were harsh landscapes and surviving in them was no easy task.Dinosaurs, much like many modern mammals, evolved special and unique characteristics to get the most out of their unfriendly surroundings.Here, mononykus, an owl-like dinosaur uses its one longer, sharp claw to eat termites from within a log. /// Credit to: BBC
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Masiakasaurus was a small theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar, best known for its unusual forward angled front teeth. That tooth shape suggests it targeted small animal prey, possibly including insects and small vertebrates, but its exact diet is not directly known from stomach contents. It lived in the same ecosystem as much larger predators such as Majungasaurus. The Maevarano fauna also included madtsoiid snakes, an extinct group of constricting snakes, showing that smaller dinosa
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Prehistoric Planet Season 2 / Corythoraptor. An Asian oviraptorid theropod that lives in flocks and feeds on ginkgo nuts. Appears in “Forests” and “Badlands”. /// 🎥 Credit to: AppleTV & BBC Prehistoric Planet /// #Corythoraptor #dinosaurs #dinosaursofinstagram #dinosaurios #jurassicpark #jurassicworldevolution2 #jurassicworld #jurassicworlddominion #trex #dinoworld #dinosaurphotography #lostworld #predator #monster #seamonster #creature #mosasaurus #prehistoricanimals #animals #paleontology #re
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I had a great walk at Cliff End today. I saw more dinosaur footprints than I usually encounter including iguanodont tracks, and a theropod track. Other finds I spotted included 2 plesiosaur teeth. All of these fossils come from the 140 million year old terrestrial sediments of the Valanginian stage of the #Cretaceous #FossilFriday | The Fossil Man
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#Carcharodontosaurus! No matter how one scales it, twas one of the largest carnivorous #dinosaurs that ever lived. This skull is a composite, taking original elements from a number of sources and upscaling them to the size of the largest bone. Thus this wild, gigantic skull on display at the Brigham Young University Museum of Paleontology. Size estimates of this 100 million-year-old, #Cretaceous African #theropod #dinosaur vary wildly, with weights of 6-9 tons and lengths exceeding 40’ being ban
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Carcharodontosaurus! One of the largest carnivorous #dinosaurs that ever lived, size estimates vary. Earlier 6-9 tons and lengths exceeding 40’ were suggested, both numbers squarely in the size range of #Tyrannosaurus rex! Recent studies suggest it was closer to 36-38’ long and weighed around 6 tons, still a giant, and one with a long (over 5’ long), low skull with over 50 highly serrated teeth in its huge mouth. The teeth of this Late Cretaceous African #theropod reminded the naming paleontolog
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Happy 119th Birthday, Tyrannosaurus rex! Oct 4th, 1905 #Tyrannosaurus rex was named by Osborn. The last slide contains the birth announcement. In the same paper he named #Dynamosaurus imperiosus, now a synonym of Tyrannosaurus, and #Albertosaurus sarcophagus, another #tyrannosaur. Quite the power pack! Gallons of ink and petabytes of text, images, and videos have been spilled (does one spill electrons?) discussing this mightiest of #theropod #dinosaurs. To this body of knowledge I offer that, as
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So cool to see! The concept? What happens when a #troodontid (his #saurornithoidid) like #Stenonychosaurus (NMC 12340) doesn’t go extinct 64 million years ago. He wrote, “Sixty-four million years ago the dinosaurs...vanished from the surface of our planet in a catastrophe the dimensions of which are only currently beginning to be explored.” I thought it was cool to see how before it was 66, it was 65, and apparently 64 🙂. What does it evolve into, bodywise? Troodontids had (have?) the largest b
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Morrison Magic! The Late #Jurassic Morrison Formation produced iconic and awesome #theropod #dinosaurs like you see laid out here at our Fossil Crates staging ground. Gunnar andI finally located the skulls to our numerous theropod skeletons. Can’t wait to lay those out!!! A tiny bit of info about each of them: #Snax, aka #Saurophaganax Maximus, was among the largest #theropods to ever live. This skull is conjectural as we have no skull material of note afaik. Yet the postcranial bones are strong
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Bigger than you thought? Struthiomimus “Ostrich Mimic” Osborn 1917 was around 14’ long and not much more than 300 lbs. #Struthiomimus was FAST! #Ostriches run up to 41 mph or so, some have argued it might have hit 50! The long, strong tail likely helped with high-speed steering. They lived in the Late #Cretaceous of western North America. Anyone know the specimen number of this one? Osborn named #Tyrannosaurus and thus was familiar with their carnivorous ways, but here he had something quite dif
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Leave my sauropod alone! #Allosaurus AMNH FARB 5753 (Fish. Amphibians. Reptiles. Birds. Now you know :-)) portrayed munching on the tail of my beloved #Apatosaurus at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. This mount is legendary for many reasons, let’s talk about a few. Charles Knight has a painting based on it, which filled my youthful self with a sense of awe and wonder. Truth be told, it still does. Knight was a genius! The Apatosaurus, AMNH FARB 222, has tooth marks on it
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New(?) #tyrannosaur genus - paleontology cut! Dubbed Sir William, twas originally suggested to be a Montana #Teratophoneus. To me, it seems to be a new genus of Late #Cretaceous #theropod #dinosaur closely related to Utah’s Terato, but with enough skeletal differences to be a new genus. Bones from across this individual’s skeleton are known, the most stunning being the arm. The radius and ulna were bitten in two and healed into a stump! I have seen some horrific paleopathologies and this one ran
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