Carnotaurus Neck Was Hefty A recent discovery in the world of prehistoric times yielded a dinosaur yet seen—Carnotaurus. Its fossilized skeleton was found in Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina at the “Pocho Sastre” farm near Bajada Moreno, Telsen Dept., in 1985 by paleontologist Joseph F. Bonaparte. Sediments that trapped the remains of Carnotaurus correspond to the […]
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The Dinosaur Trail at the Museum of Life and Science
The Museum of Life and Science in Durham, NC Has a Dinosaur Trail I have lived in North Carolina for close to two decades now and it wasn’t until around two years ago that I discovered the Museum of Life and Science in Durham. In an effort to get out more and wean myself away […]
Protoceratops
Protoceratops, pronounced pro-to-SER-uh-TOPS, (Greek—First Horned Face) was a small prehistoric ceratopsian dinosaur of the ornithischian order that existed in the Late Cretaceous Period. Named primarily as designation of a similar genus to Ceratops, meaning “before Ceratops”, it is a genus considered on many platforms to be misclassified. Its type species is P. montanus. However, now […]
Project Kickstarter: Digital Dinosaur Dryptosaurus
Paleoartist Tyler Keillor Reconstructs a Digital Dinosaur The Digital Dinosaur project is part of Project Kickstarter. If you have never seen nor heard of Project Kickstarter before then you are missing out on some of the most brilliant minds in the world. The website is dedicated to helping these minds seek the funding that they […]
Martharaptor Discovered in Utah
Utah Yields Martharaptor Remains Hayden-Corbett Quarry of Cedar Mountain formation, Utah, yields another preserved prehistoric dinosaur, Martharaptor. A Utah researcher and volunteer who serves the Utah Friends of Paleontology and works for the Utah Geological Survey is the recent namesake of Martharaptor, one of Utah’s most recent prehistoric fossil finds. Evaluated by scientists from Fayetteville […]
More Ideas For Dinosaur Cakes
Dinosaur Cakes From Around the Web One of my favorite things about running DinoPit is hearing back from my readers about what they’d like to see featured here on the blog. For today’s make a dino Monday, I wanted to take a look at some more great dinosaur cakes after I received so much positive […]