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Alioramus altai skull in the exhibit, T. rex, The Ultimate Predator, in the American Museum of Natural History (with permission by Ben Miller).

Alioramus altai skull in the exhibit, T. rex, The Ultimate Predator, in the American Museum of Natural History (with permission by Ben Miller).

predator museum Alioramini Alioramus +1
Pterodaustro skull
Taxa Ctenochasmatoidea

Pterodaustro skull

Archaeopterodactyloidea Aurorazhdarchidae Ctenochasmatoidea Euctenochasmatia +2
Pterodaustro skull
Taxa Euctenochasmatia

Pterodaustro skull

Archaeopterodactyloidea Aurorazhdarchidae Ctenochasmatoidea Euctenochasmatia +2
Pterodaustro skull
Taxa Aurorazhdarchidae

Pterodaustro skull

Archaeopterodactyloidea Aurorazhdarchidae Ctenochasmatoidea Euctenochasmatia +2
Collage of three leptoceratopsids, clockwise from top left: Prenoceratops, Montanoceratops and Leptoceratops. These files are already on Commons with their respective licenses. This montage was made for the article Leptoceratopsidae on Wikipedia.
File:The Childrens Museum of Indianapolis - Prenoceratops pieganensis -1.jpg
File:Montanoceratops Royal Tyrrell 1.jpg
File:Leptoceratopsidae - Leptoceratops.JPG
File:Leptoceratops skull Royal Tyrrell.jpg

Collage of three leptoceratopsids, clockwise from top left: Prenoceratops, Montanoceratops and Leptoceratops. These files are already on Commons with their respective licenses. This montage was made for the article Leptoceratopsidae on Wikipedia. File:The Childrens Museum of Indianapolis - Prenoceratops pieganensis -1.jpg File:Montanoceratops Royal Tyrrell 1.jpg File:Leptoceratopsidae - Leptoceratops.JPG File:Leptoceratops skull Royal Tyrrell.jpg

museum Leptoceratops Leptoceratopsidae Montanoceratops +2
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The reconstruction of the skull and lower jaw of the holotype of Darwinopterus camposi sp. nov. (IVPP V 17957). Scale bar: 50 mm. Abbreviations: d, dentary; f, frontal; j, jugal; ltf, lower temporal fenestra; m, maxilla; man.sys, mandibular symphysis; naof, nasoantorbital fenestra; o, orbit; p, parietal; pm, premaxilla; pmcr, premaxillary crest; po, postorbital; prn, nasal process; q, quadrate; sq, squamosal; utf, upper temporal fenestra.
Taxa Darwinoptera

Figure 4 The reconstruction of the skull and lower jaw of the holotype of Darwinopterus camposi sp. nov. (IVPP V 17957). Scale bar: 50 mm. Abbreviations: d, dentary; f, frontal; j, jugal; ltf, lower temporal fenestra; m, maxilla; man.sys, mandibular symphysis; naof, nasoantorbital fenestra; o, orbit; p, parietal; pm, premaxilla; pmcr, premaxillary crest; po, postorbital; prn, nasal process; q, quadrate; sq, squamosal; utf, upper temporal fenestra.

crest scale holotype Darwinoptera +3
Albertosaurus skull cast (specimen TMP 1981.010.0001) at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen.

Albertosaurus skull cast (specimen TMP 1981.010.0001) at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen.

museum cast specimen Albertosaurinae +2
Mounted replica of a composite skeleton of Edmontosaurus annectens on display at the University of Oxford Museum, Oxford, England. The original skeleton is compiled from disarticulated fossil bones from a bonebed of the Hell Creek Formation, exposed in the Ruth Mason Quarry in Harding County, South Dakota. It is 8.5 m (28 ft.) long and the skull is almost 1 m (39 in.) in length.[1][2]


↑ Dinosaurs in the Museum. Oxford University Museum of Natural History (brochure, PDF), p. 7

↑ BHI Fossil Replica Catalog 2012. Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc., Hill City, SD, 2012 (PDF), p. 22
Taxa Edmontosaurini

Mounted replica of a composite skeleton of Edmontosaurus annectens on display at the University of Oxford Museum, Oxford, England. The original skeleton is compiled from disarticulated fossil bones from a bonebed of the Hell Creek Formation, exposed in the Ruth Mason Quarry in Harding County, South Dakota. It is 8.5 m (28 ft.) long and the skull is almost 1 m (39 in.) in length.[1][2] ↑ Dinosaurs in the Museum. Oxford University Museum of Natural History (brochure, PDF), p. 7 ↑ BHI Fossil Replica Catalog 2012. Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc., Hill City, SD, 2012 (PDF), p. 22

bone museum Hell Creek fossil +10
Mounted replica of a composite skeleton of Edmontosaurus annectens on display at the University of Oxford Museum, Oxford, England. The original skeleton is compiled from disarticulated fossil bones from a bonebed of the Hell Creek Formation, exposed in the Ruth Mason Quarry in Harding County, South Dakota. It is 8.5 m (28 ft.) long and the skull is almost 1 m (39 in.) in length.[1][2]


↑ Dinosaurs in the Museum. Oxford University Museum of Natural History (brochure, PDF), p. 7

↑ BHI Fossil Replica Catalog 2012. Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc., Hill City, SD, 2012 (PDF), p. 22
Taxa Kritosaurini

Mounted replica of a composite skeleton of Edmontosaurus annectens on display at the University of Oxford Museum, Oxford, England. The original skeleton is compiled from disarticulated fossil bones from a bonebed of the Hell Creek Formation, exposed in the Ruth Mason Quarry in Harding County, South Dakota. It is 8.5 m (28 ft.) long and the skull is almost 1 m (39 in.) in length.[1][2] ↑ Dinosaurs in the Museum. Oxford University Museum of Natural History (brochure, PDF), p. 7 ↑ BHI Fossil Replica Catalog 2012. Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc., Hill City, SD, 2012 (PDF), p. 22

bone museum Hell Creek fossil +10
Mounted replica of a composite skeleton of Edmontosaurus annectens on display at the University of Oxford Museum, Oxford, England. The original skeleton is compiled from disarticulated fossil bones from a bonebed of the Hell Creek Formation, exposed in the Ruth Mason Quarry in Harding County, South Dakota. It is 8.5 m (28 ft.) long and the skull is almost 1 m (39 in.) in length.[1][2]


↑ Dinosaurs in the Museum. Oxford University Museum of Natural History (brochure, PDF), p. 7

↑ BHI Fossil Replica Catalog 2012. Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc., Hill City, SD, 2012 (PDF), p. 22
Taxa Saurolophini

Mounted replica of a composite skeleton of Edmontosaurus annectens on display at the University of Oxford Museum, Oxford, England. The original skeleton is compiled from disarticulated fossil bones from a bonebed of the Hell Creek Formation, exposed in the Ruth Mason Quarry in Harding County, South Dakota. It is 8.5 m (28 ft.) long and the skull is almost 1 m (39 in.) in length.[1][2] ↑ Dinosaurs in the Museum. Oxford University Museum of Natural History (brochure, PDF), p. 7 ↑ BHI Fossil Replica Catalog 2012. Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc., Hill City, SD, 2012 (PDF), p. 22

bone museum Hell Creek fossil +10
Mounted replica of a composite skeleton of Edmontosaurus annectens on display at the University of Oxford Museum, Oxford, England. The original skeleton is compiled from disarticulated fossil bones from a bonebed of the Hell Creek Formation, exposed in the Ruth Mason Quarry in Harding County, South Dakota. It is 8.5 m (28 ft.) long and the skull is almost 1 m (39 in.) in length.[1][2]


↑ Dinosaurs in the Museum. Oxford University Museum of Natural History (brochure, PDF), p. 7

↑ BHI Fossil Replica Catalog 2012. Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc., Hill City, SD, 2012 (PDF), p. 22
Taxa Brachylophosaurini

Mounted replica of a composite skeleton of Edmontosaurus annectens on display at the University of Oxford Museum, Oxford, England. The original skeleton is compiled from disarticulated fossil bones from a bonebed of the Hell Creek Formation, exposed in the Ruth Mason Quarry in Harding County, South Dakota. It is 8.5 m (28 ft.) long and the skull is almost 1 m (39 in.) in length.[1][2] ↑ Dinosaurs in the Museum. Oxford University Museum of Natural History (brochure, PDF), p. 7 ↑ BHI Fossil Replica Catalog 2012. Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc., Hill City, SD, 2012 (PDF), p. 22

bone museum Hell Creek fossil +10
Restored skull and neck vertebra of Anzu wyliei (previously labelled as a specimen of Chirostenotes)
Taxa Caenagnathinae

Restored skull and neck vertebra of Anzu wyliei (previously labelled as a specimen of Chirostenotes)

vertebra specimen Anzu Caenagnathidae +4
Restored skull and neck vertebra of Anzu wyliei (previously labelled as a specimen of Chirostenotes)
Taxa Elmisaurinae

Restored skull and neck vertebra of Anzu wyliei (previously labelled as a specimen of Chirostenotes)

vertebra specimen Anzu Caenagnathidae +4
Skull of the Middle Triassic North-American ichthyosaur Cymbospondylus petrinus, preserved in three dimensions. This specimen is cataloged under the number UCMP 9913. More information is available from the source link.
Taxa Longipinnati

Skull of the Middle Triassic North-American ichthyosaur Cymbospondylus petrinus, preserved in three dimensions. This specimen is cataloged under the number UCMP 9913. More information is available from the source link.

museum Middle Triassic Triassic specimen +5
Skull of Globidens dakotensis in the Field Museum of Natural History.

Skull of Globidens dakotensis in the Field Museum of Natural History.

museum Globidens Globidensini skull
Montage of four pachycephalosaurs. Clockwise from top left: Stegoceras, Prenocephale, Pachycephalosaurus and Homalocephale. These files are already on Commons with their respective licenses. This montage was made for the article Pachycephalosauria on Wikipedia.
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File:Fossil Pachycephalosaurus.jpg
File:Homalocephale skull.jpg
Taxa Pachycephalosauridae

Montage of four pachycephalosaurs. Clockwise from top left: Stegoceras, Prenocephale, Pachycephalosaurus and Homalocephale. These files are already on Commons with their respective licenses. This montage was made for the article Pachycephalosauria on Wikipedia. File:Stegoceras mount.jpg File:Dinosauria - Prenocephale.jpg File:Fossil Pachycephalosaurus.jpg File:Homalocephale skull.jpg

fossil Dinosauria Domocephalinae Goyocephalia +10
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The dodo bird had a secret sensory world scientists are only now discovering
bird CT-scan discovery skull
CT scans of the world’s rarest dodo skulls suggest the extinct bird may have had a stronger sense of smell, a highly sensitive beak, and a lifestyle that extended into dawn and dusk. The discoveries are helping overturn centuries-old myths and reveal a far more complex animal than the famously “dumb” dodo of popular imagination.
09/08/2026 sciencedaily-paleo
A forgotten fossil just revealed a new Triassic predator from 210 million years ago
jaw predator prey Mexico Triassic fossil skull
A fossil overlooked for nearly 80 years has revealed a previously unknown crocodile relative that lived 210 million years ago in what is now New Mexico. Named Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa, the jackal-sized predator had a reinforced skull, powerful jaw muscles, and a short snout built for tackling larger prey.
30/07/2026 sciencedaily
This dinosaur fossil captures the final moments of a T. rex attack
tooth predator prey fossil Dinosauria Edmontosaurus Tyrannosaurus discovery skull
A fossilized Edmontosaurus skull with a Tyrannosaurus tooth still embedded in its face has given scientists rare evidence of a dramatic predator-prey encounter. The discovery suggests the giant carnivore delivered an incredibly powerful face-to-face bite, offering new clues about how Tyrannosaurus hunted.
14/07/2026 sciencedaily
Early Saber-Toothed Cat Gets New Face after Decades of Mystery
Early Saber-Toothed Cat Gets New Face after Decades of Mystery
tooth paleoart reconstitution United States Pliocene mammals skull
A nearly complete skull unearthed decades ago in Arizona has given paleontologists their clearest look yet at Adelphailurus kansensis, an enigmatic felid species that inhabited North America more than 5 million years ago and occupied an early branch of the saber-toothed cat family tree. The post Early Saber-Toothed Cat Gets New Face after Decades of Mystery appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.
29/06/2026 sci-news
A Stunning Theropod Skull on Display
museum fossil Tyrannosaurus skull
During a visit to the Museum für Naturkunde (Berlin) we took the opportunity to photograph the beautiful skull of Tristan the Tyrannosaurus rex.  The skull is one of the most complete and best-preserved tyrannosaur skulls known to science.  The T. rex fossils, on display next to the skull material have been named Tristan Otto.  To
12/06/2026 everythingdinosaur
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