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Examine dinosaur evolution, types, characteristics, physiology, food habits, and fossil findings in New Zealand, Africa, and Antarctica. Also covered are the numerous theories on dinosaur extinction, carbon dating and palaeontology. SCIS no. 1846896

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Dinosaur diorama

Dinosaur diorama

Dinosaurs are the most prominent past life forms to appear in popular culture. Dinosaur models are children’s toys and the creatures feature widely in books, movies and cartoons. This model display...

Fossils found in New Zealand

Fossils found in New Zealand

Bones of dinosaurs found in New Zealand.

Dinosaur extinction

Dinosaur extinction

Geologist, Shanan Peters, answers questions about the extinction of dinosaurs.

Fossils in Africa

Fossils in Africa

Fossils found in Africa may be the oldest dinosaurs ever known.

Dinosaurs in Antarctica

Dinosaurs in Antarctica

Discovery of dinosaurs in Antarctica tells of warmer times in the frozen continent.

How old is that dinosaur?

How do you work out the age of a dinosaur fossil?

The best-kept secret

The best-kept secret

David Bellamy visits New Zealand’s “dinosaur forest” in Whirinaki.

Iguanodon tooth

Iguanodon tooth

The fossil that started the study of dinosaurs.

Tyrannosaur discoveries

Tyrannosaur discoveries

Famous paleontologist on some of his most recent Tyrannosaur discoveries.

Winged dinosaur

Ancestor of the velociraptor discovered in China.

Dinosaur tracks

Discovery of tracks in Massachusetts in 1935.

Footprints in Nelson

Footprints in Nelson

Discovery and preservation of dinosaur footprints in Nelson.

Asteroid killed dinosaurs

Asteroid killed dinosaurs

The most comprehensive study carried out to date confirms that dinosaurs were wiped out by a giant asteroid.

Toy stampede

Watch what happens when some dinosaurs break out of a cereal box to visit their friend Scotty T. Rex at Te Papa. Te Papa website - https://www.tepapa.govt.nz Te Papa collections - http://collection...

Dinosaur skeleton

Dinosaur skeleton

A dinosaur skeleton at Auckland Museum.

Dinosaur collectors

Dinosaur collectors

Nothing tells the world you've made it quite like a real life Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton standing in your hallway! There's a new breed of dinosaur collector and they're outbidding the world's top m...

Dinosaur slide

The dinosaur slide at Kōwhai Park.

Stephens Island tuatara

Stephens Island tuatara

The native tuatara is the only living example of a reptile order that thrived over 250 million years ago.

Joan Wiffen, a dinosaur fossil discoverer and expert.

Fossil Iguanodon tooth

Fossil Iguanodon tooth

The first fossil ever to be recognised as a dinosaur fossil.

Finding fossils

Where can I find fossils?

Where did they live?

A look at dinosaurs from 7 continents.

Death and disease

What risks did dinosaurs face in their environment?

What killed the dinosaurs?

What caused the extinction of the dinosaur?

4 dinosaurs recently discovered in the Antarctic.

Reviving dinosaurs

Computer graphics helping us imagine how dinosaurs lived.

Diets and food chain

Dinosaur feeding habits in the late Cretaceous era.

How to understand paleontology.

Dinosaurs for kids

Dinosaur facts, information, and activities for primary school students.

Types of dinosaurs

Classification of dinosaurs.

Lesson plans and activities

Get students excited about geology with lessons and activities about dinosaurs.

Colour of dinosaurs

A Ted-Ed talk on the colour of dinosaurs.

New Zealand’s dinosaurs

Dinosaurs once lived in New Zealand.

Dinosaurs: Activities and lesson plans

Dinosaurs: activities and lesson plans.

Recreating dinosaurs

A science team and paleoartists bring a dinosaur to life.

Extracting fossils

Methods of extracting fossils from rocks.

Size of dinosaurs

What were the biggest and smallest dinosaurs?

Dinosaur content for early primary school pupils.

T-Rex for Jurassic Park

The creation of T-Rex for the movie Jurassic Park.

A mix of articles, interactives, and activities based on paleontology and dinosaurs.

Dinosaur and reptile fossils from an unexplored valley

A team of GNS fossil hunters makes discoveries in a remote New Zealand valley.

The strange history of dinosaurs in art – in pictures.

About dinosaurs

Answers to some commonly asked dinosaur questions.

Draw a dinosaur

Step-by-step instructions on how to draw a dinosaur.

Biggest dinosaurs

Ten of the biggest dinosaurs that walked the Earth.

The top 10 weirdest dinosaurs

10 weird dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era.

Sculpting a stegosaurus

Learn how to sculpt a popular dinosaur from the Jurassic period.

How dinosaurs might have evolved

A hypothetical look at how dinosaurs could have evolved.

Fossil remains of monster animals

1906 newspaper article about Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Fossil bones

Fossils are the remains of plants, birds, and animals preserved in rock. Body fossils and trace fossils are examples of two types of fossils. Body fossils are the remains of animals such as bones e...

Dinosaur egg returned

Dinosaur egg returned

In this cartoon, His Excellency Mr Pedro Villagra Delgado, Ambassador of the Argentine Republic, inspects a 72 million-year-old Titanosaurus egg that appears to be broken and empty. This stolen egg...

Tuatara and eggs

Tuatara and eggs

The ancestors of the tuatara were said to have existed around the same time as the dinosaurs. This animal still lives 65 million years after the last dinosaur became extinct. Its primitive structur...

Woes of a Titanosaur!

Woes of a Titanosaur!

90 million years ago, one of the largest dinosaurs that ever lived was a species of Titanosaur. It weighed as much as 10 African elephants and was 37 meters long. However, it still wasn't as large ...

Monster of past

Monster of past

This early newspaper article mentions the exciting discovery of diplodocus carnegii, a dinosaur or 'monstrous animal' of such size it was compared to the most advanced technology of the day – a ste...

African monster

African monster

The 1910 book Beasts and Menby zoologist Carl Hagenbeck, mentions the existence of a mysterious kind of dinosaur in Rhodesia.

Brontosaurus

The curious case of the Brontosaurus dinosaur.

World’s largest known dinosaurs once roamed New Zealand

One of the largest known dinosaurs, a titanosaurid, almost certainly roamed New Zealand about 80 million years ago.

Sophie Thomson and dinosaur footprints

Sophie Thomson points to a 70 million-year-old dinosaur footprints in sandstone rocks in north-west Nelson.

66-million-year-old deathbed

Paleontologists have found a fossil site in North Dakota that contains animals and plants killed and buried within an hour of the meteor impact that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

Ancient myths inspired by fossils

The connection between myths and dinosaur fossils.

What are dinosaurs?

An introduction to dinosaurs

Everything dinosaurs

Chomp on tons of facts and fun.

A dinosaur that swam

Meet Spinosaurus a swimming dinosaur!

Videos, webcasts and subject guides from Smithsonian’s Museum of National History Education resources for teachers.

Can we bring dinosaurs back to life?

Join Nanogirl and her friends from Clyde Quay School as they go on an adventure to Te Papa and discover whether we can bring dinosaurs back to life.

What did a baby T.rex look like?

Experts at the American Museum of Natural History explain how they created life-sized adult, juvenile, and baby T-rex models.

Dinosaurs and their relatives

Dinosaurs are classified as a group of reptiles, although some of their features are found in mammals and birds living today rather than in reptiles.

Australian dinosaurs

Not many dinosaurs are known from the Mesozoic of Australia. In fact, only 23 have proper scientific names based on fossil material.

What did dinosaurs look like?

Palaeontologists pull inspiration from modern birds and reptiles.

An extensive range of videos, activities, infographics and interactives from the National Geographic Resource Library.

Get your fill of dinosaur facts and fun and find out all about the reptiles that once dominated our planet.

New Zealand dinosaurs

Find out about the dinosaurs that lived in New Zealand.

Why dinosaurs matter

They may have lived millions and millions of years ago, but dinosaurs have a lot to teach us about modern life according to paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara.

The evolution of a Jurassic Park raptor suit.

The Dino Directory

Discover facts, figures and images for more than 300 dinosaurs.

This page on Many Answers has links to reviewed websites and databases about Dinosaurs.

What is a dinosaur?

The extinct animals we normally think of as dinosaurs had their heyday in the Mesozoic.

Mary Anning: The girl who helped discover dinosaurs

Find out about Mary Anning who is now recognised as one of the first and most successful paleontologists in history.

Perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo found in China

Researchers say the fossil is at least 66 million years old and was about to hatch just like a chicken.

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