This article shows how scientists put together the scientific names of dinosaurs using Greek and Latin roots.

Learn why Utah is known as a prime location for the discovery of dinosaur fossils and why, in 1988 the Allosaurus was named Utah's official state fossil.

Introduces South African Alexander Toit as naming Gondwanaland and Laurasia.

A short biography about the geologist and palaeontologist who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur named Megalosaurus.

The Bisti Beast's official name is Bistahieversor sealeyi. It is a tyrannosaur dinosaur, related to the Albertosaurus and the Daspletosaurus, and found in New Mexico. These two pages describe the discovery and reconstruction of this...