#dinosaur time

The dinosaur fact I have for you is: Styracosaurus (meaning "Spiked lizard"), is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian from the late Cretaceous discovered in 1913 by paleontologist Lawrence Lambre in Alberta, Canada. It held 4-6 parietal spikes on it's neck frill, a small jugal horn on each cheek, and a nose horn that estimatedly could get up to 60 cm (2 ft) in length and 15 cm (6 inches) in width. It grew up to 5.5 meters (18 ft) in length and 2.7 metric tons (3 short tons) in weight, it was bulky with four short legs and a relatively short tail. It had a beak with shearing cheek teeth, which were arranged in a way that suggested it sliced up plants!!

I hope you enjoyed dinosaur fact time! :]

Did you know that I’ve left this ask unanswered for so long it might as well be a fossil for you to study for years to come? YEAH IM SO SORRY, CRITTER- I LOVE YOUR DINOSAUR FACT TIMES IM SORRY! I wanted to respond with some art of some kind of dino, but grew kind of unmotivated so I never answered it at all. This was asked on June 1st, by the way so uh… yeah I’m sorry…

Anyways, I tried to draw a velociraptor, but this sketch is about all I was able to get done lol

"Maybe they like to- Build houses!

O-or even just cut down trees for fun!

Or, hell! Maybe the trees were already like this from way before! I don't know!!

There's no way that they are something bad... Why would they send us that letter if that's the case?

Oh, don't tell me that I stumbled into a tomb or something... I couldn't possibly deal with something like that again..."

"We can't just assume some innocent shape that means well is suddenly a beast just because of their surroundings.

Like- Prism could be just living here in a hut, waiting for us, and we're just out here blaming them for being a beast! We don't know that!

Sure, maybe they aren't a lumberjack, or a house designer, or whatever... Maybe they don't have any tools like...

Axes... Or hammers...

Maybe they... Use massive claws instead...

A-and... Are strong enough to rip out trees from the root... Just with a swipe...

T-to... Possibly mark territory and let others know to piss off f-from here..."

Heli gulps, backing up.

"There's... N-no way, they are a-"

Today I offer you: Yangchuanosaurus (meaning "Lizard from Yang-ch'uan"), is a carnivorous metriacanthosaurid theropod that was discovered in 1977 by Dong Zhiming in the Shangyou Reservoir, China. Two different y specimens have been documented for sizing. The specimen Y. shangyouenis measures with a skull of 82 centimeters (2.69 ft) and a body of around 8 meters (26 ft). Specimen Y. magnus measures a length of 10.8 meters (35 ft) and an estimated weight of 3.4 metric tons. Suggested to be the same species by American researcher Gregory S. Paul, the decided single measure for it was decided to be 11 meters (36 ft) in length and 3 metric tons in weight. This species is related to Allosaurus, a North American carnivore from the Late Jurassic, and has similarities to both Ceratosaurus and Tameryraptor in the bony ridge on its nose and multiple hornlets!!

I hope you enjoyed today's dinosaur fact time! :]

DINO TIME! DINO TIME!

My returning gift to you is the smallest dinosaur ever discovered: the Oculudentavis! It was a similar size to that of the bee hummingbird, skulls measuring from 1.4 to 1.7cm! Some debate on whether it was actually a dinosaur or not, but I think it counts. Its name means "Eye tooth bird". It also, as the name meaning suggests, resembled a bird with its beak!