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Hadrosaur teeth, an ornithischian fossil reptile, in side view. Maastrichtian (-70 million years). Wyoming. The dentition of Hadrosaurs was
© Pascal Goetgheluck / Biosphoto
© Pascal Goetgheluck / Biosphoto
Hadrosaur teeth, an ornithischian fossil reptile, in side view. Maastrichtian (-70 million years). Wyoming. The dentition of Hadrosaurs was specially adapted for grazing grass: the set of teeth was almost welded together, forming a kind of grater. - Blouet brothers collection
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Amateur paleontologist and Psittacosaurus skeleton France ; Character: Eric Depré
Collection: Eric Depré
© Pascal Goetgheluck / Biosphoto
© Pascal Goetgheluck / Biosphoto
Amateur paleontologist and Psittacosaurus skeleton France ; Character: Eric Depré
Collection: Eric Depré
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Amateur paleontologist and his collection of fossils France ; Character: Eric Depré
Collection: Eric Depré
© Pascal Goetgheluck / Biosphoto
© Pascal Goetgheluck / Biosphoto
Amateur paleontologist and his collection of fossils France ; Character: Eric Depré
Collection: Eric Depré
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Entrance of Paleontology Museum Jardin des Plantes Paris
© Jean-Claude N'Diaye / Biosphoto
© Jean-Claude N'Diaye / Biosphoto
Entrance of Paleontology Museum Jardin des Plantes Paris
© Jean-Claude N'Diaye / Biosphoto
Statue of a Stegosauria Jardin des Plantes Paris
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Fossils of short-crested lizard and hadrosaurid dinosaur ;
© Juan-Carlos Muñoz / Biosphoto
© Juan-Carlos Muñoz / Biosphoto
Fossils of short-crested lizard and hadrosaurid dinosaur ; Dinosaurs : Brachylophosaurus canadensis et hadrosaurid dinosaur
© Juan-Carlos Muñoz / Biosphoto
Triceratops The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
© Michel Gunther / Biosphoto
Stegosaurus with its real size at plants Garden Paris
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Guard in front of an Hadrosaur skeleton ; Dinosaur Provincial Park, Canada
© Jean-Pierre Sylvestre / Biosphoto
© Jean-Pierre Sylvestre / Biosphoto
Guard in front of an Hadrosaur skeleton ; Dinosaur Provincial Park, Canada
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Completion of a sculpture of a triceratops skull ; From the time he was very young, he has dissected, sketched an sculpted
everything he notices
© Gilles Martin / Biosphoto
© Gilles Martin / Biosphoto
Completion of a sculpture of a triceratops skull ; From the time he was very young, he has dissected, sketched an sculpted
everything he notices during his hikes. While completing studies in biology,
he worked on perfecting his moulding and painting techniques. Today he serves
art and natural history museums by restoring collections or making educational
moulds and models. First he sculpts and models the subject. With the help of
elastomers an resins, he then casts his creation. Next comes the most delicate
phase : giving the animal or plant realistic, lifelike colors.
Various techniques used in modeling. : here, with epoxy resin.
@ Mold (Sculpture)
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Completion of a sculpture of a triceratops skull ; From the time he was very young, he has dissected, sketched an sculpted
everything he notices
© Gilles Martin / Biosphoto
© Gilles Martin / Biosphoto
Completion of a sculpture of a triceratops skull ; From the time he was very young, he has dissected, sketched an sculpted
everything he notices during his hikes. While completing studies in biology,
he worked on perfecting his moulding and painting techniques. Today he serves
art and natural history museums by restoring collections or making educational
moulds and models. First he sculpts and models the subject. With the help of
elastomers an resins, he then casts his creation. Next comes the most delicate
phase : giving the animal or plant realistic, lifelike colors.
Various techniques used in modeling. : here, with epoxy resin.
@ Mold (Sculpture)
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Fossilized and assembled skeleton of Chasmosaurus Canada ; Characteristic of the Dinosaur Park formation
Cretaceous sup. (83-65 My.)
5 to 8 m
© Jean-Pierre Sylvestre / Biosphoto
© Jean-Pierre Sylvestre / Biosphoto
Fossilized and assembled skeleton of Chasmosaurus Canada ; Characteristic of the Dinosaur Park formation
Cretaceous sup. (83-65 My.)
5 to 8 m long - 2,5 m high
approximately 1,5 ton
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Parasaurolophus in an amusement park France ; Prehistoric park Dino Zoo in Charbonnières Doubs
© Denis Bringard / Biosphoto
© Denis Bringard / Biosphoto
Parasaurolophus in an amusement park France ; Prehistoric park Dino Zoo in Charbonnières Doubs
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An armored Saichania ankylosaurid, white background.
© Yuriy Priymak / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Yuriy Priymak / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
An armored Saichania ankylosaurid, white background.
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A Velociraptor mongoliensis attacks a Protoceratops andrewsi.
© Yuriy Priymak / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Yuriy Priymak / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
A Velociraptor mongoliensis attacks a Protoceratops andrewsi.
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A Velociraptor mongoliensis attacks a Protoceratops andrewsi.
© Yuriy Priymak / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Yuriy Priymak / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
A Velociraptor mongoliensis attacks a Protoceratops andrewsi.
© Yuriy Priymak / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
Styracosaurus in a forest.
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Velociraptors chase a Bagaceratops in a prehistoric desert.
© Yuriy Priymak / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Yuriy Priymak / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
Velociraptors chase a Bagaceratops in a prehistoric desert.
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Two Allosaurus europaeus with a Hypsilophodon foxii in mouth as its
© Yuriy Priymak / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Yuriy Priymak / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
Two Allosaurus europaeus with a Hypsilophodon foxii in mouth as its next meal.
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A Tarbosaurus dinosaur and an armored Saichania ankylosaurid in a prehistoric landscape.
© Yuriy Priymak / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Yuriy Priymak / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
A Tarbosaurus dinosaur and an armored Saichania ankylosaurid in a prehistoric landscape.
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A 17-foot-long, three ton herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur of the genus Styracosaurus samples flowers of the order Ericales amidst
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
A 17-foot-long, three ton herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur of the genus Styracosaurus samples flowers of the order Ericales amidst varieties of fern 76 million years ago in North America. Flanking the Styracosaurus are willows of the genus Salix.
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A 10 foot long, 250 pound Zuniceratops wanders a Cretaceous forest 90 million years ago in what is today New Mexico. . . Like the
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
A 10 foot long, 250 pound Zuniceratops wanders a Cretaceous forest 90 million years ago in what is today New Mexico. . . Like the better known and larger Triceratops, Zuniceratops was a Ceratopsid, a family of four-legged plant-eating dinosaurs characterized by beaks, rows of shearing teeth in the back of the jaw, and elaborate horns and frills. While they resemble defensive shields, the frills are in fact relatively fragile, suggesting that they may have served a purpose other than protecting against a brute force attack. One possibility is that the frills were employed as visual displays in order to intimidate rivals and attract the opposite sex.
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An adult Zuniceratops from 90 million years ago is compared to a modern adult White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
An adult Zuniceratops from 90 million years ago is compared to a modern adult White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The Zuniceratops is 3 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs 250 pounds, while the White Rhinoceros is 6 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs 7,000 pounds.
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An adult Triceratops from 68 million years ago is compared to a modern adult White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
An adult Triceratops from 68 million years ago is compared to a modern adult White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The Triceratops is nearly 10 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs 25,000 pounds, while the White Rhinoceros is 6 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs 7,000 pounds.
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A five ton, 25 foot long male Torosaurus drinks from a river bordered by ferns and Bald Cypress in what is today southeastern
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
A five ton, 25 foot long male Torosaurus drinks from a river bordered by ferns and Bald Cypress in what is today southeastern Wyoming. Torosaurus was a plant-eating dinosaur from the same family as the better known Triceratops. Torosaurus had one of the largest skulls of any known land animal, reaching over 8 feet in length.
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An adult Pentaceratops from 75 million years ago is compared to a modern adult White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
An adult Pentaceratops from 75 million years ago is compared to a modern adult White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The Pentaceratops is 8 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs 13,000 pounds, while the White Rhinoceros is 6 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs 7,000 pounds.
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A pair of three-ton plant-eating Parasaurolophus feed on flora near a waterfall 75 million years ago in North America. Similar to
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
A pair of three-ton plant-eating Parasaurolophus feed on flora near a waterfall 75 million years ago in North America. Similar to plant-eating Lambeosaurus of the same period, these dinosaurs also sported a distinctive hollow cranial crest.
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Three Ouranosaurus drink at a watering hole while a menacing Sarcosuchus floats nearby 110 million years ago in what is today
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
Three Ouranosaurus drink at a watering hole while a menacing Sarcosuchus floats nearby 110 million years ago in what is today Africa. The environment is moderately arid with Prickly Juniper and other hardy conifers dominating the ruddy landscape. . Ouranosaurus was a variety of Iguanodont, a group of large plant-eating dinosaurs. At about 24 feet long and 4 tons, Ouranosaurus was unusual in that its skeleton suggests it had a large hump on its back. The hump may have served as a reservoir for water and/or source of nutrition for lean times as they do for modern bison and camels. . Sarcosuchus, a distant relative of the crocodile, was one of the largest giant crocodile-like reptiles that ever lived. 30-40 feet long and weighing 8 to 10 tons, Sarcosuchus was almost twice as long as the modern saltwater crocodile. It would have been a formidable threat even to a beast as large as the Ouranosaurus.
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Nedoceratops (formerly known as Diceratops) graze beneath a giant Oak tree 75 million years ago in what is today Wyoming. The
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
Nedoceratops (formerly known as Diceratops) graze beneath a giant Oak tree 75 million years ago in what is today Wyoming. The ground birds on the right are from the predatory genus Avisaurus.
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A two ton, 15 foot long Nedoceratops wanders a Cretaceous forest 70 million years ago in what is today Wyoming. Nedoceratops had
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
A two ton, 15 foot long Nedoceratops wanders a Cretaceous forest 70 million years ago in what is today Wyoming. Nedoceratops had two prominent horns above its eyes and a single bump above its nose. . . Like the better known Triceratops, Nedoceratops was a Ceratopsid, a family of large four-legged plant-eating dinosaurs characterized by beaks, rows of shearing teeth in the back of the jaw, and elaborate horns and frills. While they resemble defensive shields, the frills are in fact relatively fragile, suggesting that they may have served a purpose other than protecting against a brute force attack. One possibility is that the frills were employed as visual displays in order to intimidate rivals and attract the opposite sex.
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An adult Nedoceratops from 70 million years ago is compared to a modern adult White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
An adult Nedoceratops from 70 million years ago is compared to a modern adult White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The Nedoceratops is a little over 8 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs 12,000 pounds, while the White Rhinoceros is 6 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs 7,000 pounds.
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In a scene 75 million years ago from what's now Montana, a six ton male Lambeosaurus rears onto its massive hind legs in response
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
In a scene 75 million years ago from what's now Montana, a six ton male Lambeosaurus rears onto its massive hind legs in response to a possible threat, while a female and juvenile Lambeosaurus drink near the river's edge. Lambeosaurus was a plant-eating dinosaur known for its distinctive hollow cranial crest, which in the best-known species resembled a hatchet. The purpose of the crest is unknown. . Also featured here are Late Cretaceous Period flora including the now extinct tree fern Tempskya and species of flowering Magnolia similar to the Southern Magnolia we know today. Modern birds were just making their appearance, though avian fossils from this period are rare.
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A herd of plant-eating Einiosaurus roam the plains in what is today the Two Medicine Formation in northwestern Montana. In the
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
A herd of plant-eating Einiosaurus roam the plains in what is today the Two Medicine Formation in northwestern Montana. In the distance a long-dormant volcano signals its return to activity by cauterizing snowcover into great clouds of steam. Within weeks the volcano will bury this scene beneath a massive ash fall, preserving the remains of the flora and fauna for future exhumation and examination by Homo sapiens 75 million years later.
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An adult Einiosaurus from 77 million years ago is compared to a modern adult White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
An adult Einiosaurus from 77 million years ago is compared to a modern adult White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The Einiosaurus is 6 and a half feet tall at the shoulder and weighs 8,000 pounds, while the White Rhinoceros is 6 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs 7,000 pounds.
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A one ton, 20 foot long Diabloceratops wanders a Cretaceous forest 70 million years ago in what is today Utah. . Like the better
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
A one ton, 20 foot long Diabloceratops wanders a Cretaceous forest 70 million years ago in what is today Utah. . Like the better known Triceratops, Diabloceratops was a Ceratopsid, a large four-legged plant-eating dinosaur characterized by beaks, rows of shearing teeth in the back of the jaw, and elaborate horns and frills. While they resemble defensive shields, the frills are in fact relatively fragile, suggesting that they may have served a purpose other than protecting against a brute force attack. One possibility is that the frills were employed as visual displays in order to intimidate rivals and attract the opposite sex.
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An adult Diabloceratops from 70 million years ago is compared to a modern adult White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
An adult Diabloceratops from 70 million years ago is compared to a modern adult White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The Diabloceratops is 8 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs 6000 pounds, while the White Rhinoceros is 6 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs 7,000 pounds.
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A ten-foot-long Crichtonsaurus crosses paths with a pair of frogs deep within a Cretaceous forest 95 million years ago. The heavily
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
A ten-foot-long Crichtonsaurus crosses paths with a pair of frogs deep within a Cretaceous forest 95 million years ago. The heavily armored Crichtonsaurus was a herbivore and therefore unlikely to have any interest in frogs as food, while the carnivorous frogs are doubtless in search of smaller prey. The forest is populated with various ferns and the conifer-like Wollemi Pine (not a true conifer, rather an Araucariaceae more closely related to the Monkey Puzzle tree).
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A ten ton Triceratops wanders a Cretaceous forest 68 million years ago in what is today the Western United States.
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
A ten ton Triceratops wanders a Cretaceous forest 68 million years ago in what is today the Western United States.
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A colorful Torosaurus wanders a Cretaceous forest 75 million years ago in what is today southeastern Wyoming. . Like the better
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
A colorful Torosaurus wanders a Cretaceous forest 75 million years ago in what is today southeastern Wyoming. . Like the better known Triceratops, Torosaurus was a ceratopsid, a family of large four-legged plant-eating dinosaurs characterized by beaks, rows of shearing teeth in the back of the jaw, and elaborate horns and frills. While they resemble defensive shields, the frills are in fact relatively fragile, suggesting that they may have served a purpose other than protecting against a brute force attack. One possibility is that the frills were employed as visual displays in order to intimidate rivals and attract the opposite sex. While no color pigmentation has been preserved in the fossil remains of ceratopsids, it's not unreasonable to suggest that they may have been very colorful, like many reptiles and birds today.
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A six ton, 27 foot long Pentaceratops wonders a Cretaceous forest 75 million years ago in what is today the southwestern United
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
A six ton, 27 foot long Pentaceratops wonders a Cretaceous forest 75 million years ago in what is today the southwestern United States. . Like the better known Triceratops, Pentaceratops was a Ceratopsid, a large four-legged plant-eating dinosaur characterized by beaks, rows of shearing teeth in the back of the jaw, and elaborate horns and frills. While they resemble defensive shields, the frills are in fact relatively fragile, suggesting that they may have served a purpose other than protecting against a brute force attack. One possibility is that the frills were employed as visual displays in order to intimidate rivals and attract the opposite sex. While no color pigmentation has been preserved in the fossil remains of Ceratopsids, it's not unreasonable to suggest that they may have been very colorful, like many reptiles and birds today.
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A 20 foot long Albertaceratops wanders a Cretaceous forest 77 million years ago in what is today Alberta, Canada. . . Like the
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
A 20 foot long Albertaceratops wanders a Cretaceous forest 77 million years ago in what is today Alberta, Canada. . . Like the better known Triceratops, Albertaceratops was a Ceratopsid, a large four-legged plant-eating dinosaur characterized by beaks, rows of shearing teeth in the back of the jaw, and elaborate horns and frills. While they resemble defensive shields, the frills are in fact relatively fragile, suggesting that they may have served a purpose other than protecting against a brute force attack. One possibility is that the frills were employed as visual displays in order to intimidate rivals and attract the opposite sex. While no color pigmentation has been preserved in the fossil remains of Ceratopsids, it's not unreasonable to suggest that they may have been very colorful, like many reptiles and birds are today.
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An Allosaurus stumbles upon a grazing Stegosaurus in a Jurassic Redwood forest. While it's probable that the 30 foot, 2 ton
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
An Allosaurus stumbles upon a grazing Stegosaurus in a Jurassic Redwood forest. While it's probable that the 30 foot, 2 ton Allosaurus preyed upon large herbivores, it is doubtful that one would have risked a direct confrontation with an adult Stegosaurus, which could weigh as much as 5 tons and wields a powerful tail tipped with 3-foot spikes. Adding to its survivability, Stegosaurus' front legs may have been strong enough to allow it to pivot and swing its entire backside around to ward off an assault. . In addition to Redwoods and varieties of fern, this Jurassic-period forest includes the now extinct Pachypteris, an arboreal plant that grew to a height of 10 feet and populated every major continent 160 million years ago (in this image, the Stegosaurus is stepping back onto a Pachypteris, obliging a much smaller lizard to abandon its roost). . Was the Allosaurus really striped like Siberian tigers? Fossilized impressions of dinosaur skins reveal combinations of smooth and bony scales, and even feathers for some, but nothing has been preserved that would tell us what colors may have adorned them. Nevertheless, there are plenty of colorful modern reptiles for us to refer to, and birds, which may be the dinosaurs' closest living descendents, are among the most colorful vertebrates of all. Allosaurus reigned for 10 million years, so there was plenty of opportunity for them to evolve a wide variety of coloring schemes, if required.
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An adult Albertaceratops from 77 million years ago is compared to a modern adult White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Walter Myers / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
An adult Albertaceratops from 77 million years ago is compared to a modern adult White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The Albertaceratops is 6 and a half feet tall at the shoulder (weight unknown), while the White Rhinoceros is 6 feet tall at the shoulder and weighs 7,000 pounds.
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Lambeosaurus lambei, a hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period.
© Vitor Silva / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Vitor Silva / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
Lambeosaurus lambei, a hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period.
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Corythosaurus, a large hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Period.
© Vitor Silva / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Vitor Silva / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
Corythosaurus, a large hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Period.
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A Xenoceratops scratches its back with its epoccipital bones, standing in the shallow waters of a prehistoric river.
© Vitor Silva / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Vitor Silva / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
A Xenoceratops scratches its back with its epoccipital bones, standing in the shallow waters of a prehistoric river.
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Saichania, a Mongolian ankylosaurid from the Late Cretaceous Period.
© Vitor Silva / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Vitor Silva / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
Saichania, a Mongolian ankylosaurid from the Late Cretaceous Period.