purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2025-06-20 06:35 pm
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A fossil skeleston of what appears to be a bipedal dinosaur with a long tail, longish neck and sharp teeth.
Dilophosaurus. Image stolen from Great Dinosaur Discoveries by Darren Naish, though wikipedia is using a very similiar image under a Creative Commons licence.
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2025-06-13 06:47 pm
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A two legged, very upright, dinosaur skeleton with a long neck, smallish arms and large ribs. About twice as tall as the man in an overall who stands looking up at it. The background is black and the two figures are picked out with a pale light.

A Plateosaurus skeleton. Image stolen from The Great Dinosaur Discoveries by Darren Naish.
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2025-03-14 06:07 pm
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Two skulls, one labelled Baryonix skull and one labelled Modern Crocodile. The Baryonx skull has longer jaws with the teeth more towards the front. It has hollows in the upper part of the skull.
Image stolen shamelessly from the DK Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2025-01-03 11:32 am
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A museum case seen from above containing a four-legged dinosaur skeleton
April the Tenontosaurus in the Manchester Museum
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2024-02-02 05:27 pm
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Articulated Skeleton of a quadrupedal dinosaur with a large crest (with two large holes in it) on its skull and three horns - not unlike a triceratops.


Chasmosaurus is a dinosaur from the late Cretaceous, related to Triceratops. Image stolen from the Great Dinosaur Discoveries by Darren Naish.
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2024-01-12 10:39 am
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A vaguely pentagonal stone showing fossil bones. Three claws are visible each side, either side of what could be folded legs. On the left between claw and leg, two eggs are visible. Similarly an egg is visible in a dip at the top right.
A fossil of a nesting Oviraptorid from the DK Encyclopaedia of Dinosaurs and Pre-historic Life
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2023-12-22 05:03 pm
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Front view of a knobbly long snouted creature that you could imagine to be a dragon skull.
Image stolen shamelessly from The Great Dinosaur Discoveries by Darren Nash.


Dracorex is a Pachycephalosaur from the late Cretaceous. The spectacular skull was first described 2006.
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2023-12-01 01:03 pm
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Random Fossil


Fossil of a fish like thing with a triangular head. Legs are also visible though - so not a fish.
Image stolen shamelessly from the DK Encyclopaedia of Dinosaurs and Pre-historic Life.


Andrias is a genus of giant salamanders. It includes the largest salamanders in the world. While extant species are only known from East Asia, several extinct species in the genus are known from late Oligocene and Neogene.
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2023-09-29 08:02 pm
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Black and White photo of dinosaur eggs.
Dinosaur Eggs from the Gobi Desert. Stolen from Great Dinosaur Discoveries by Darren Naish.
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2023-07-14 05:54 pm
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Microraptor with Feathers


Raptory skeleton fossil surrounded by sort of fuzzy lines of feathers.
Image stolen from The Great Dinosaur Discoveries by Darren Nash.
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2023-05-19 06:21 pm
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Very complete Icthyosaur fossil. Allegedly you can see an unborn baby ichthyosaurs but, to be honest, I struggle to see it. There are some blobby bits in the lower part of the rib cage...
Pregnant Icthyosaur fossil, stolen shamelessly from the DK Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life. I'm not sure I can identify the babies. They're supposed to be in the lower part of the body.
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2022-10-14 07:31 pm
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Fossil Friday: Pentasteria


Fossil Starfish.
Stolen from the DK Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Pre-historic Life.

Pentasteria is an extinct genus of sea star that lived from the Early Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous.
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2022-07-29 03:45 pm
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A small child in dungarees setting in a water filled sauropod footprint
A Sauropod Footprint. Image stolen shamelessly from The Great Dinosaur Discoveries by Darren Naish where it is credited to the American Natural History Museum.
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2022-06-10 06:02 pm
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Fossil Friday: Hydrophilus


Fossil Beetle
Image stolen from the DK Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Pre-historic Life

Hydrophilus is a family of large water beetles about which Wikipedia has little information beyond many species are alive today.
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2022-04-29 07:26 pm
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Fossil Friday: Rhamphorynchus


Yellow stone containing a pterosaur fossil. Long tail and wings all visible.
Image stolen shamelessly from the DK Encyclopaedia of Dinosaurs and Pre-historic Life


Rhamphorhynchus is an extinct genus of long-tailed pterosaurs from the Jurassic.
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2022-01-28 07:08 pm
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Stone containing fossil ammonites
From the Musea di Storia Naturale, Venice
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2021-08-27 08:48 pm
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Black and White photo of a man in a pith helmet holding fossilised bones


Barnum Brown was an American palaeontologist who discovered the first Tyrannosaurus remains, though I don't think the above shows a T. rex bone.
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2021-07-23 08:01 pm
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A fossil amphibian. It has a large bony slightly boomerang shaped head and then a backbone.

Image pinched from the DK Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Pre-historic Life.


Diplocaulus is an amphibian that lived from the late Carboniferous to the Permian.
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2021-04-02 03:30 pm
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Fossil fish thing


Stethacanthus was a genus of shark-like holocephalian (no, I don't know what one of those is). It has a kind of spine-brush thing on its head which you can see in the fossil once you know you are looking for it - top right.
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purplecat: Gif of running "pointy sauruses" (General:Dinosaur)
2021-03-12 06:18 pm
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Fossil Friday: Leptolepides


A fossil fish.

Hmm... not quite sure why I've scanned in this one. Leptoleipides is a fossil fish from the Jurassic.

Image stolen from the DK Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
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