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Pectinodon Video
Specimen

Pectinodon

Pectinodon was a small, feathered troodontid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous known f…

Mesozoic 1 min
Placerias Video
Specimen

Placerias

Placerias was a large, herbivorous dicynodont synapsid from the Late Triassic known for its bul…

Mesozoic 1 min
Protoceratops Video
Specimen

Protoceratops

Protoceratops was a small hornless ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous known for its …

Mesozoic 1 min
Protostegidae Video
Specimen

Protostegidae

Protostegidae were giant prehistoric sea turtles from the Cretaceous known for their large size…

Mesozoic 1 min
Pterosaur Video
Specimen

Pterosaur

Flying reptiles that dominated the skies for over 150 million years, living alongside the dinos…

Mesozoic 2 min
Qianzhousaurus Video
Specimen

Qianzhousaurus

A long-snouted tyrannosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of China, nicknamed "Pinocchio Rex" for i…

Mesozoic 2 min
Quetzalcoatlus Video
Specimen

Quetzalcoatlus

Quetzalcoatlus was a gigantic flying pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous known as one of the lar…

Mesozoic 2 min
Rajasaurus Video
Specimen

Rajasaurus

A large carnivorous dinosaur from India that lived during the Late Cretaceous and was distingui…

Mesozoic 2 min
Rapetosaurus Video
Specimen

Rapetosaurus

Rapetosaurus was a titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous known for its long nec…

Mesozoic 1 min
Rhyacian
Era

Rhyacian

The second era of the Proterozoic Eon, marked by the Great Oxidation Event, widespread continen…

Proterozoic 3 min
Siderian
Era

Siderian

The first era of the Proterozoic Eon, marked by the beginning of Earth's atmospheric oxygenatio…

Proterozoic 3 min
Simosuchus Video
Specimen

Simosuchus

Simosuchus was a small, plant-eating terrestrial crocodilian from the Late Cretaceous known for…

Mesozoic 1 min