Carcharodontosaurus Lived over 93 million years ago Carcharodontosaurus (pronounced Car-kah-roe-don-to sore-us ) was one of the biggest carnivorous dinosaurs of the North African region where it called home. It lived 93 to 100 million years ago and was found to be second in size for predatory dinosaurs. Carcharodontosaurus was larger than Tyrannosaurus and Giganotosaurus, although […]
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DinoPit’s Dinosaur Infographic Timeline
Dinosaur Infographic Timeline by DinoPit.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Refer to the dinosaur infographic pictured above for a visual representation of the information below. Permian–Triassic extinction event The “Great Dying” is the only time Earth has seen a mass extinction of insects. It also caused the extinction of 96% […]
Dinosaurs Unearthed, a Dinosaur Vacation Destination
Dinosaurs Unearthed Showcases at the Connecticut Science Center Inhabitants of Hartford may have been puzzled by the recent arrival of a new feature along Columbus Boulevard. If you have not seen it yet, take a drive down to the corner of Grove and Columbus, where an animated dinosaur will greet you. The life-size model is […]
5 Awesome Pieces of Cool Dinosaur Art From DeviantArt
If I Could I’d Buy All Cool Dinosaur Art Out There I am always on the lookout for cool dinosaur art. It’s not that I actually have room in my house to fill the walls with more art, but I can appreciate cool dinosaur art and the effort that goes in to it. Take a […]
Archaeopteryx
Archaeopteryx was a Bird-Like Theropod Dinosaur Archaeopteryx lived around 150 million years ago during the Jurassic era, in what is now southern Germany. It lived before the continental shift and, at the time, Europe was a group of tropical islands much closer to the equator. Archaeopteryx (pronounced AR-kee-OP-ter-iks) comes from the Ancient Greek: archaios, meaning […]
Was It Just An Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs?
The Asteroid that “Killed the Dinosaurs” was 6 Miles Wide When your time is up, your time is up. For the dinosaurs the end came in the form of an asteroid, 65.5 million years ago. With a diameter of 10 km (6 miles), the asteroid created a crater 180 km (110 miles) wide off the […]