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5 unusual facts about Dinosaur


Dinosaur, Colorado

Many streets in the town are named after dinosaurs, including Cletisaurus Circle, Tyrannosaurus Trail, and Antrodemus Alley.

In the October 2009 issue of Dark Avengers by Marvel Comics, Dinosaur is the site of a portal that consumes Norman Osborn's Dark Avengers.

The Town of Dinosaur is a Statutory Town located in Moffat County, Colorado, United States.

Moffat County, Colorado

The headquarters of Dinosaur National Monument are located east of Dinosaur, Colorado.

Prehistoric Beast

As for the subsequent documentary Dinosaur!, Phil Tippett, while making Prehistoric Beast, received assistance from ILM stop-motion animators Randy Dutra (who made the dinosaur molds and skins) and Tom St. Amand (who made the inner articulated metallic skeletons of the dinosaurs).


'It's Alive!'

The monster suit that was used to portray the dinosaur was used in another one of Buchanan's older films, Creature of Destruction.

9951 Tyrannosaurus

On November 21, 2002 it was renamed "Tyrannosaurus" after Tyrannosaurus, a genus of large carnivorous dinosaur of the late Cretaceous.

An Instinct for Dragons

Jones then argues against the common hypothesis that dragon myths might be motivated by primitive discoveries of dinosaur fossils (he argues that there are widespread traits of dragons in folklore which are not observable from fossils), and claims that the common traits of dragons seem to be an amalgam of the principal predators of our ancestral hominids, which he names as the raptors, great cats (especially leopards) and pythons.

Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses

The plot of the sketch is that the interviewee, Anne Elk, cannot bring herself to describe the actual basis of her supposed new palaeontological theory on dinosaurs, specifically Brontosauruses.

Balochisaurus

Balochisaurus (meaning "Balochi lizard", for the Baloch tribes of Pakistan) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Pakistan.

China Dinosaurs Park

The museum contains a nearly complete fossil skeleton of the important dinosaur genus Sinosauropteryx (similar to Archaeopteryx) as well as large fossils such as those of a Brachiosaurus and a Hadrosaurus.

Chungkingosaurus

Chungkingosaurus, meaning "Chongqing Lizard", is a genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic-age Upper Shaximiao Formation in what is now China.

Colorado State Highway 64

The route begins at a junction with US 40 in Dinosaur where it is named Stegosaurus Freeway, following the tradition of naming the roads in Dinosaur after names of dinosaurs.

Compsognathidae

In 2003, O.W.M. Rauhut redefined the family Coeluridae to include Coelurus (Late Jurassic, North America), Compsognathus (Late Jurassic, Europe), Sinosauropteryx (Early Cretaceous, Asia) and an unnamed Compsognathus-like form (Early Cretaceous, South America; this dinosaur has since been placed in the new genus Mirischia).

Deinocheirus

The Russian paleontologist Rozhdestvensky compared the forelimbs of Deinocheirus to sloths, leading him to hypothesize that Deinocheirus was a specialized climbing dinosaur, that fed on fruits and leaves and perhaps also eggs and any small animals found in trees.

Devil Dinosaur

Devil Dinosaur appears in The Super Hero Squad Show episode "The Devil Dinosaur You Say!", voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.

Dinosaur Cove

The dinosaur taxa, Leaellynasaura amicagraphica and Timimus hermani, are named for the children of the Riches', Tim and Leaellyn.

Domeykosaurus

"Domeykosaurus" (meaning "Domeyko lizard", after 19th century scientist Ignacy Domeyko) is the informal name given to an undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous.

Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 DS

Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 DS (ドラえもん のび太の恐竜 2006 DS) is the card battle game for the Nintendo DS system.

Excitebots: Trick Racing

For example, in Kilimanjaro, there are dinosaur fossils that come to life, Guatemala, the Moai statue heads can breathe fire at times, and in Tasmania, several rock monsters will alter tracks or attack players.

Frick, Aargau

In 2006, the only Coelophysoidea (a small flesh-eating dinosaur species) fossil in Switzerland, was found by an amateur paleontologist in Frick.

Glen Canyon

The Sierra Club and its leader, David Brower, were instrumental in blocking the dam in Dinosaur, ignoring Glen Canyon in the process.

Haywards Heath RFC

They run a 4th Team called "The Dinos" named after the dinosaur fossil discovered by Gideon Mantell on what is now their playing fields.

Herbstosaurus

In 1978 John Ostrom, while reviewing the relations of Compsognathus, concluded that these qualities were best explained by the hypothesis that Herbstosaurus was not a dinosaur but a pterosaur, for which such proportions are normal.

Here Comes Science

"I Am a Paleontologist" was featured in a Payless ShoeSource commercial featuring kids inside a dinosaur museum.

Kirky

Nqwebasaurus A genus of dinosaur which was nicknamed "Kirky" after the Kirkwood Formation before receiving its scientific name.

Libycosuchus

Fossil remains have been found in the Baharije Formation in Egypt, making it contemporaneous with the crocodilian Stomatosuchus, and dinosaurs Spinosaurus and Rugops.

Linnéa Handberg Lund

Several of her songs, including "Operator", "Hero", and "Pink Dinosaur", have appeared in the wildly popular Dance Dance Revolution video games.

Milo Dinosaur

According to a reporter for The New Paper, the "Dinosaur" in the beverage's name on its own means "a heap of Milo or Horlicks powder on the iced drink".

New Park Quarry

This site is in the north Cotswolds, near Longborough, and contains the well-preserved remains (disarticulated) of Crocodiles and Dinosaurs.

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

They are taken to the museum and the chief spy retrieves the microfilm from the other large dinosaur, a Diplodocus skeleton.

Paleontology in Maryland

Tyson took the dinosaur teeth to a local doctor named Christopher Johnston.

Ponerosteus

It was renamed Ponerosteus exogyrarum (species name amended) by George Olshevsky in 2000; however, the taxon is considered a nomen dubium by most, as the type material is extremely poor, being apparently an internal cast of a tibia from an animal that may or may not be a dinosaur.

Primal Prey

Each episode contains several missions that allows the player to either hunt or trap eight dinosaur species and one pterosaur:(Tyrannosaurus, Utahraptor, Troodon, Gastonia, Triceratops, Styracosaurus, Iguanodon, Lambeosaurus and Quetzalcoatlus).

Primeval Hunt

Though the game uses two light guns styled after pump-action shotguns, the player may choose from three weapons in-game: a Bow, Shotgun or Rifle (However, each player is also given a Rocket Launcher with one rocket in it for every level that is capable of killing any one Dinosaur with a single shot).

Replikas

The band’s third album Avaz was produced by Wharton Tiers who is known for his work with bands such as: Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Helmet and Dinosaur Jr.

Sinclair Oil Corporation

Sinclair has long been a fixture on American roads with its dinosaur logo and mascot, an apatosaurus (Brontosaurus).

At the Chicago World's Fair of 1933-1934, Sinclair sponsored a dinosaur exhibit meant to point out the putative correlation between the formation of petroleum deposits and the time of dinosaurs, now a largely discredited misconception.

Sohan Lal Jain

The large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur genus Jainosaurus, was named in his honour after it was identified as a distinct genus although initially thought to be a species of Antarctosaurus.

Star Gladiator

Rimgal: June's father, the former English scientist Michael Milliam turned into a Velociraptor dinosaur who fights with a Bone Club after Bilstein had experimented on him, mixing his human DNA with dinosaur DNA.

Stenopelix

In 1855, in a sandstone quarry near Bückeburg on the Harrl heights, a fossil was found of a small dinosaur.

Sue Bea Montgomery

She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy award in the category of Outstanding Children's Animated Program for her work on Dinosaur Train.

Sui Jianguo

In a more recent work, the red dinosaur – a symbol of imperialist China, like communist China - with the engraved door on the chest mentions ‘Made in China’; it is a glance toward plastic toys from the start of the Chinese economic flight, and a symbol of an antiquated China moving toward being contemporary.

Sunkist Fun Fruits

Advertising for the dinosaur shapes featured the "Fruitasaurus," a friendly Brontosaurus who stockpiled dinosaur shaped Fun Fruits.

Syntarsus

Megapnosaurus, a theropod dinosaur, was formerly called Syntarsus, and is occasionally still referred to as such.

Tarascosaurus

A life-size reconstruction of this dinosaur can be seen at Dinosauria, a dinosaur museum located in Espéraza, France.

Tarzan the Terrible

He has tracked her to a hidden valley called Pal-ul-don, which means "Land of Men." In Pal-ul-don Tarzan finds a real Jurassic Park filled with dinosaurs, notably the savage Triceratops-like Gryfs, which unlike their prehistoric counterparts are predatory.

The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

The inner artwork includes images of other dinosaur skulls steganographically overlapped in a similar manner to the front cover, including a pachycephalosaur and an ankylosaur.

Uberabatitan

Uberabatitan (meaning "Uberaba titan", in reference to where it was found) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil.

Wah Chang

In addition, Chang built the artificial creature in "The Architects of Fear" episode of the original The Outer Limits, some props for the original Planet of the Apes film, the frightening skeleton animated in The Power, the flying machine in The Master of the World, and the dinosaurs in Land of the Lost.

Wann Langston, Jr.

Animals named by Langston include the theropod Acrocanthosaurus (1950), the hadrosaurid dinosaur Lophorhothon (1960), and the microsaur Carrolla (1986).

Weed Forestin'

Weed Forestin was recorded in 1986 and 1987, when Barlow was the bassist of the American indie rock band, Dinosaur Jr. Sebadoh, which Barlow co-founded with Eric Gaffney, started as a songwriting outlet for Barlow outside of Dinosaur Jr, whose lead singer and guitarist, J. Mascis, Barlow would later publicly clash with.

Yongjinglong

The generic name is derived from the name of the historical Yongjing County, near where the holotype of Yongjinglong and numerous dinosaur track fossils were collected, and from long, meaning "dragon" in Chinese.


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