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Dinosaurs

The Age of the Dinosaurs

Timelines, extinction and more with colorful and crisp graphics and images.

Dino Russ's Lair

DINO RUSS's LAIR primary purpose is to promote information about dinosaurs and vertebrate paleontology. I am always on the lookout for new links. Includes information on dinosaur art, digs, eggs, exhibits, sites to visit, news, books, organizations, software, tracks, and dinosaurs of Illinois.

Dinosaur Art and Modelling

Lots of pictures and critical reviews of dinosaur art and models created by artists. Do the renderings reflect the latest scientific findings?

Dinosaur Art

This artist creates fantasy-like pictures of the "terrible lizards."

Dinosaur Eggs @ national geographic

This story takes you behind the scenes of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine's May 1996 article, "The Great Dinosaur Egg Hunt."

Dinosaur Hall at the Smithsonian

Photographs of skeletons and exhibits at the Dinosaur Hall of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

Dinosaur Illustrations

This site's purpose is to help you locate great illustrations of dinosaurs that have been posted on the Internet. It is intended as a shortcut from going site to site hoping to find the specific dinosaur your looking for.

Dinosauria On-Line

List of hot links, photo gallery, online ordering of dinosaur merchandise, and a dinosaur encyclopedia. The feature of special note is the search engine built over the top of the entire site.

The Dinosauria

What is the truth about dinosaurs that underlies the popular awe and mystique that shrouds them? What does modern science have to say about the dinosaurs? Examine the fossil record, learn about dinosaur life and ecology, specific dinosaur groups, and early dinosaur finds in North America.

Hadrosauris : World's First Dinosaur Skeleton

In the summer of 1858, Victorian gentleman and fossil hobbyist William Parker Foulke was vacationing in Haddonfield, New Jersey...he found the bones (above, right) of an animal larger than an elephant with structural features of both a lizard and a bird...Foulke had discovered the first nearly-complete skeleton of a dinosaur--an event that would rock the scientific world and forever change our view of natural history.

Honolulu Community College Dinosaur Exhibit

For the first time in Hawaii, there is a unique, free, permanent exhibit of dinosaur fossils available for public viewing. These "fossils" are replicas from the originals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, which boasts one of the finest and largest collections of dinosaur fossils in the world.

NOVA Online : Curse of T. rex

In 1990, a group of fossil hunters in South Dakota found a nearly complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, touching off a controversy that involved law, science, ethics, and media attention. One debate centered on who owns the skeleton. Another dealt with whether commercial fossil hunters should be allowed to remove and sell fossils from public land.

Sue at the Field Museum

All the facts about the largest, most complete, best preserved T. Rex.

University of California Museum of Paleontology Tyrannosaurus Rex Exhibit

The tyrannosaurs were a group of large carnivorous dinosaurs that roamed North America and Asia during the last part of the Cretaceous, 85 to 65 million years ago. The most famous tyrannosaur, of course, is Tyrannosaurus rex, known to every schoolchild, and one of the last non-avian dinosaurs to walk the earth before the great extinction.

Zoom Dinosaurs

The site offers a wealth of information. There are dino fact sheets, quizzes, jokes and games, plus an illustrated dinosaur dictionary.