Articles for tag: dinosaur profiles

8 Dinosaurs Scientists Still Can’t Classify

The deep past of Earth is strewn with tantalizing fossils — skeleton fragments, bones, vertebrae, bits of hips and limbs — that defy tidy categorization. Over the last century, paleontologists have built tree after tree of dinosaur interrelationships (phylogenies), yet some taxa stubbornly resist placement. These “enigmatic dinosaurs” fall into the category incertae sedis (of ...

12 Fiercest Predators of the Jurassic Era

12 Fiercest Predators of the Jurassic Era

Picture an ancient world where colossal beasts ruled both land and sea, their thunderous roars echoing across steamy continents. The Jurassic period, stretching from roughly 201 to 145 million years ago, was nature’s grand theater of predation. While Hollywood may have put T. rex in the spotlight, the true giants of terror lived millions of ...