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If you have kids that love dinosaurs, they’re going to love this dinosaur scavenger hunt! It’s perfect for dinosaur themed birthday parties or just a dino hunt adventure after school! Simply print, place, and play for one amazing prehistoric adventure! 

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Dinosaur Scavenger Hunt

My son is a dinosaur lover, like I’m talking dinosaur obsessed. For our Wednesday adventure this week, all he wanted to do was go on a dinosaur adventure, so I spent an hour looking for all of the places that you could see dinosaurs in the DFW area.

And for his 3rd birthday, I put together a fun dinosaur hunt that had him searching all over our house for dinosaur clues. It’d be a great dinosaur party game for any dinosaur birthday party! Definitely one of my favorite scavenger hunt ideas I’ve ever put together!

If you have dinosaur loving kiddos, they’re going to love this fun free printable dinosaur hunt I put together for my munchkin’s birthday a couple of months ago.

Pretty sure you’d win mom of the year if you set up this dinosaur hunt and the prize at the end was getting to have a living room picnic with these dinosaur cookies or everything you need for this dinosaur craft idea!

This roll the dinosaur game is a great option if you’re having a larger group than works with this scavenger hunt.

Dino Hunt Supplies

You really don’t need much for this dinosaur scavenger hunt, just a few things you probably already have around the house if your house is like mine.

• Printable dinosaur scavenger hunt (get it below)
• Dinosaurs (to hold the clues) – optional
• Tape (to tape up the clues)
• Prizes for the end of the scavenger hunt (ideas below)

How to Set Up this Dino Hunt

1 – Print out the dinosaur scavenger hunt and cut out the cards individually. Make sure to keep them in order because the scavenger hunt story really only makes sense if you keep them in order.

2 – Then collect dinosaurs from around your house (assuming you have some). If you don’t, you can totally skip this step altogether!

But if you do, my son thought it was super fun that I put one of his toy dinosaurs with each of the clues, kind of like the dinosaurs were the ones actually leading him on the hunt.

3 – Place the clues, dinosaurs, and prizes around the house where they go. I recommend doing this while your kids are at school or otherwise preoccupied so they don’t know where all the clues are.

It’s no fun if they know where any of the clues are because then they often just start going out of order and ignoring the clues. Make sure to keep the first clue out and not hidden as is this is what you’ll give the kids to get the hunt started!

You’ll notice this dinosaur scavenger hunt is written in a way that makes it sound like the dinosaurs are leaving clues and prizes behind.  For my son’s birthday, I actually had wrapped gifts with each of the clues that he collected along the way (okay fine, I collected them) and then we opened them all at the end. The gifts were all dinosaur related naturally.

But you can totally do it however works for you whether the “prizes” left behind are tokens or tickets they can turn in for one prize at the end. Or you can do little things throughout, just do whatever works for your group.

4 – Place the prizes at the very end of the scavenger hunt for the kids to find them! Alternately, you could also put small little prizes all along the hunt instead of one at the end. Totally up to you. One thing to note is that if you do put things all along the way, kids sometimes get distracted and just started playing with the prizes found along the hunt.

Dinosaur Hunt Prize Ideas

There are so many different things you could have as prizes for the end of the dinosaur hunt. If you’re doing this for just your own kid or kids, you can obviously go a bit bigger than if you’re doing something for a lot of different kids at say a dinosaur birthday party. Pick things from this list that make the most sense for the kids who will be doing the hunt! It’d be really fun to get some of these personalized dinosaur bags and put a couple little dinosaur prizes in them! Everyone loves something with their name on it!

Smaller Dino Hunt Prize Ideas ($5 or less)

• Dinosaur eggs with little toy dinosaurs inside (we got these for my son’s Disney World themed birthday party and they were a HUGE hit!)
• Dinosaur crayons + coloring pages (the crayons are shaped like dinos!)
• Dinosaur excavation surprise eggs (these are a bit bigger and look awesome)
• Dinosaur lollipops (either these fruity ones or these chocolate ones)
• Pull back dinosaur cars

Bigger Dino Hunt Prize Ideas (Over $5+)

• Dinosaur Escape Game (this is a great cooperative game for kids!)
• Dinosaur Bath Bomb (there’s a hidden dinosaur inside!)
• Any of the How Do Dinosaurs… books (we have all of these and LOVE them!)
• A custom dino shirt for the birthday kid
• Dinosaur Seek & Find book (just bought this for my 5-year-old)
• Any of the small Chomp Squad toys (most kids who love dinosaurs will likely have seen the show that inspired these toys!)
• LEGO Jurassic World DVD

Get the Printable Hunt

Enter your first name and email address below to get the free printable. You’ll be immediately taken to the PDF to download and receive a copy to your email shortly after.

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2 Free Printable Dinosaur Scavenger Hunt Games

Looking for a fun way to entertain your family? Bring out your inner paleontologist and dig up your love for dinosaurs with these dinosaur scavenger hunts! Dinosaurs first roamed the Earth over 200 million years ago.

Their fossils have been discovered on every continent and in many environmental factors, making these scavenger hunts an easy way to educate your family as they explore different areas of your house and garden at any time of the year.

These dinosaur themed activities were created with the whole family in mind for hands-on fun. Not only are scavenger hunts a fantastic way for your kids to learn quick problem solving skills, but they are also great for keeping them active indoors and outdoors. These cute dinosaurs will guide your family throughout your house and are a unique way to play for all ages. Download our 2 Dinosaur Scavenger Hunt games created by Just Family Fun and get started.

What's Included In Our Dinosaur Scavenger Hunt Package

There are two separate games included within our downloadable Dinosaur Scavenger Hunt package. The first game is Riddle Clue Cards and guides your family throughout your house and garden for a day of fun. This game involves printing out clues for your family to find in order to reach the final clue.This game also comes with a help guide for parents to help your family hide and solve each riddle clue card correctly.

The second scavenger hunt is called Find the Dinosaur Picture Game. This scavenger hunt involves hiding each of the dinosaur cut outs throughout your house or garden and checking each of them off as you gather them one-by-one. Let’s dive into both of the Dinosaur Scavenger Hunts and their explanations below.

Dinosaur Scavenger Hunt Riddle Clue Cards Game

The first game included within the downloadable Dinosaur Scavenger Hunt Package is the Riddle Clue Cards. This game includes 12 images of clues to hide within your house and in your yard. Each of the clues can be cut out to place in their locations. This game is a fantastic way to keep your children active and they continue to learn in an exciting and hands-on way.

These Riddle Clue Cards are also an amazing way to involve your kids with problem-solving and critical thinking skills. They will be able to interact with the dinosaurs on each card and solve riddles in order to collect the next one, enhancing their knowledge and skills. Your kids will follow each of the dinosaurs around your home and will be so happy once they solve and collect all 12 of the dinosaur riddle cards. Simply cut out these cards and place them in the recommended spots included in the parents clue key, and let the fun begin! 

How to use our dinosaur riddle card clues

To play this game you’ll need to cut out the clue cards and hide them in the place of the previous riddle card. We have included a help guide within the downloadable content to assist you on your Dinosaur-hiding journey.

Find the dinosaur scavenger hunt picture game

This Dinosaur Picture Game can be played in your house and outside (or wherever you are on the go!). For an easy way to keep your kids on their toes, hide each of the dinosaurs in places of your choosing and send the kids on their way to dig up our prehistoric friends. There are 9 different dinosaur images for them to find and collect. This interactive game will help your kids think of exciting ways to maneuver through your house and yard while searching for each of the cut outs.

How to play find the dinosaur scavenger hunt picture game

The game is simple. Print off both pages and cut out the dinosaurs on the cutout page. Hide them around the house and garden then let the kids find them, once they find one they can tick it off on the sheet. 

Tip: You can laminate the check sheet as well as each of the 9 cards to reuse them in the future!

Bennifits Of Playing Scavenger Hunt Games

Scavenger hunts are not only a family fun activity. There are several benefits for including them in your daily plans which you should consider. 

Scavenger hunts help your kids to further their problem-solving skills using mental, visual, and tangible methods. This improves their thinking and ability to understand these skills at a higher level than if they simply completed the riddles solely on paper. They will solve each of the riddles while physically searching for the downloadable dinosaur clues, bringing an additional level of fun to this educational activity.

While interacting with the scavenger hunts, your children’s minds will be active, as well as their feet! Exercise is essential for keeping kids healthy, and scavenger hunts are a unique way to implement physical activity into your kids daily routine. They will walk and run around the house and yard searching for each of the clues, giving them the extra energy boost they need.

Another benefit of scavenger hunts is that your kids will become more aware of their surroundings and their ability to focus on completing tasks one-by-one. Keeping your kids busy without electronics can be difficult these days, and these printable Dinosaur Scavenger Hunts are an incredible way to keep them busy without the help of a screen.

Conclusion

We hope you and your family enjoy Just Family Fun’s Downloadable Dinosaur Scavenger Hunts. Good luck on your search for our prehistoric friends.

Love the idea of dinosaur-themed activities? Check out our other content, such as our 3 Dinosaur masks, which you can cut out and wear instantly. For additional fun, you could wear these masks when playing the scavenger hunts to search for your dino friends! 

If you enjoyed this scavenger hunt, another fantastic Dinosaur themed activity from Just Family Fun is our Dinosaur Colouring Pages. These colouring pages are a great way to introduce creativity to your kids. They will keep them calm and collected after searching for their dinosaur friends all day.

A Powerful Primeval Creature (Dino Hunt) - Lineage 2 Knowledge Base



1. Talk to Dinn in the south of Primeval Isle (Primeval Isle).
2. Go to Lost Nest (Lost Nest) or Primeval Plains (Primeval Plains) and kill monsters:
   • Ornithomimus (Ornithomimus), Deinonychus (Deinonychus), Velociraptor (Velociraptor), Pterosaur (Pterosaur), collecting Dinosaur Tissue
   • Ancient Egg (Dinosaur Egg), collecting Dinosaur Egg (Dinosaur Egg)
3. Talk to Dinn (Dinn) and select the following conversation item to receive a reward:
   1. Give Dinosaur Tissue Samples :
      Get 5,000 Adena for each Dinosaur Tissue
   2. Process 1 Egg and 150 Dinosaur Tissue :
      For Dinosaur Tissue - 150 pcs. and Dinosaur Egg (Dinosaur Egg) - 1 pc. get recipe best A Grade weapons to choose from:
      •  Recipe: Sirra's Blade (60%)
      • Recipe: Sword of Ipos (60%)
      • Recipe: Barakiel's Ax (60%)
      • Recipe: Behemoth's Tuning Fork (60%)
      • Recipe: Naga Storm (60%)
      • Recipe: Tiphon's Spear (60%)
      • Recipe: Shyeed's Bow (60%)
      • Recipe: Sobekk's Hurricane (60%)
      • Recipe: Themis' Tongue (60%)
      • Recipe: Cabrio's Hand (60%)
      • Recipe: Daimon Crystal (60%)
   3. This variant is introduced in Gracia Epilogue . View list of awards :
      For Dinosaur Tissue - 450 pcs. get the recipe Dynasty weapons to choose from:
      
      • Recipe: Dynasty Sword (60%) (Recipe - Dynasty Sword (60%))
      • Recipe: Dynasty Blade (60%)
      • Recipe: Dynasty Phantom (60%)
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      • Recipe: Dynasty Halberd (60%)
      • Recipe: Dynasty Cudgel (60%)
      • Recipe: Dynasty Mace (60%)
      • Recipe: Dynasty Bagh-Nakh (60%)

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Seven dinosaurs of Russia

The first dinosaurs appeared on the planet about 233 million years ago. If we returned to those times, we would hardly recognize the Earth. In the Triassic period, instead of the usual six continents, there was a single supercontinent Pangea, which gradually began to be inhabited by "terrible lizards". nine0003

When we talk about Russian dinosaurs, we mean animals whose fossilized remains* are found on the territory of our country today. Unfortunately, the continental deposits of those times have not been preserved in Russia, and therefore there are practically no chances to find the bones of the Triassic lizards.

In the Jurassic, Pangea began to break up into Gondwana and Laurasia, and many land areas
were flooded. Most of the current European territory of Russia also went under water. Dinosaurs settled on the islands, and pliosaurs, plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs lived in the warm and shallow Central Russian Sea. nine0003

Often in the media, dinosaurs are called not only land, but also flying and water dinosaurs. This is mistake. Dinosaurs lived exclusively on earth, and pterosaurs and marine reptiles were their relatives (and the latter were very distant).

On the other hand, dinosaurs mastered the territory of present-day Siberia well - most of the Jurassic in this region was warm and humid. In Russia, several locations dating back to that time are already known.

In the Cretaceous, the climate became drier, the winters were colder, but there were no extreme temperatures even in the Arctic. So, 70 million years ago in Chukotka in summer it was about +20°C, and in winter the temperature dropped to +3°C. nine0003

About +20 °C in summer and +3 °C in winter was in Chukotka 70 million years ago.

Triassic
(251.9 - 201.3 million years ago)

Jurassic
(201.3 - 145 million years ago)

Cretaceous
(145 - 66 million years ago)

Paleogene (

66 - 22 million years ago)

Neogene period
(22 - 2.58 million years ago)

Quaternary period
(2.58 million years ago - today)

Dinosaurs seem to have lived permanently in the North Pole region. This is indicated by the egg shells and bones of the cubs found in the Chukchi locality of Kakanaut. True, it is not very clear,
what herbivorous animals ate during the polar night, when ferns and bushes stopped growing. There is a hypothesis that some Australian dinosaurs hibernated for the winter. Perhaps the Russians did the same.

For a long time, dinosaur bones were practically not found in our country. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, most of Russia is forests or permafrost, and geological deposits suitable for searching are not available to paleontologists. At the same time, the main "suppliers" of dinosaur remains - the United States, Canada and China - have significant territories occupied by the so-called badlands (badland - literally "bad land"). They have neither vegetation nor fertile
soils, but the geological layers are exposed.

Secondly, Siberia and the Far East are sparsely populated. Dinosaur cemeteries are often found during earthworks. So it was in Blagoveshchensk, where a large locality of fossils was discovered within the city while digging a foundation pit. But since there are few settlements in this region, the territory has been explored rather poorly.

And thirdly, we do not have enough personnel. The largest paleontological centers of the country are Moscow and St. Petersburg, there are few specialists in the regions. nine0003

And yet, despite the difficulties, dinosaurs are found in Russia every year. Scientists themselves joke that the secret to the success of any expedition is to look for remains where they are.

The chances of an animal becoming a fossil are low. About one in a million, according to British paleontologist David Hawn.

If an animal's body is left on the ground after death, it has almost certainly been eaten by scavengers. And the remaining bones were destroyed by the sun, rains and temperature changes. Fossilization, that is, petrification, requires water. That is why we do not know anything about dinosaurs that lived in the mountains, deserts or in the forest thicket, but we find the remains of those who lived along the shores of the seas, rivers or lakes. nine0003

The ideal death of a dinosaur, according to a paleontologist, looks like this: the animal drowns in a river or lake, or even better, in a swamp with its oxygen-free environment. The flesh decays or is eaten by aquatic life, but the skeleton remains intact.

After a while, the skeleton falls asleep with sediment, and it remains lying for long millions of years.

Gradually, voids in the bones are filled with minerals dissolved in water. Sometimes they can be radioactive, and then the fossils "glow". In Russia, such fossils, for example, are found in the Tuva locality of Kalbak-Kyry. They are even searched for with the help of radiometers. Of course, the dinosaurs themselves were not radioactive during their lifetime and did not possess any superpowers (which is a pity). nine0003

As a result of erosion or, for example, when laying a road, a layer with bones may be exposed. And then there is a chance that people will find the fossilized remains of dinosaurs.

But the search for fossils is only a small part of the work of paleontologists. Examining bones, describing 90,008 of them, and understanding which animal they belonged to is what researchers do most of the time.

Over a century and a half of the development of paleontology, scientists have managed to collect a large database. It describes in detail thousands of finds from all over the world, including dinosaur bones. And this is the main thing
help in the work of specialists. Even a fragmentary find - a vertebra, a tooth or a fragment of the
skull - if compared with the remains already described, allows us to determine which group the animal belonged to, and sometimes even imagine how it looked as a whole. Annual rings
in the bones make it possible to understand the conditions in which the dinosaur lived, the structure of the teeth and traces of abrasion - how and what kind of food he chewed, and coprolites (fossilized excrement) give an idea of ​​the complete diet.

The trend of paleontology in recent decades is tomography. It makes it possible to look inside the bones without damaging them. For example, if you scan the skull in a tomograph, you can find out at what frequencies the animal communicated by the length of the cochlea. nine0003

Over the past 30+ years, our understanding of dinosaurs has changed radically. For example, it was previously believed that they were cold-blooded animals with hard scales. Now scientists
are sure that most, if not all, dinosaurs were warm-blooded, and many of them were also covered with feathers. In some cases, even their color is known. All thanks to the fact that we managed to find
and study melanosomes - cell components that contain pigments. Paleontologists compared their shape with similar structures in the feathers of modern birds. nine0003

There is a scientific hypothesis that birds are modern dinosaurs. Scientists now call extinct dinosaurs non-avian . So, when you feed the pigeons, take a closer look at them.

The last "Russian" non-avian dinosaur disappeared about 66 million years ago, but now the interest in these animals in our country is greater than ever. And, according to paleontologists, many discoveries await us in the foreseeable future of
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When Dinosaurs Lived

period

era

eon

Ma

Triassic

Jurassic

Culindadromeus

168.3–166

kilesk

167. 7–164.7

Stegosaurus

(Sharypovo)

167.7–164.7

diplodocoid

165

Cretaceous

Stegosaurus

(Teete)

145–125

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Kulindadromei

Kulindromeus zabaikalicus

The oldest of the birds

Type of power: Planty

Plants :Institute of Natural Resources, Ecology and Cryology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chita (Chita)

In 2010, paleontologists from all over the world heard about the Kulinda Valley in the Trans-Baikal Territory. It was there that geologist Sofya Sinitsa found the remains of an unknown herbivorous dinosaur covered with feathers. Scientists knew about the existence of feathered dinosaurs before, but it was believed that they were exclusively predators. The discovery also changed scientific ideas about the evolution of the outer covers - the Transbaikal lizard turned out to be the oldest feathered creature known to science. nine0003

Four years later, an international group of scientists, which included Russian specialists, published an article about a unique animal in Science magazine. It was named Kulindadromeus ( Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus ).

Just a month later, the Paleontological Journal published another article on bones from Kulinda. According to its authors, paleontologist Vladimir Alifanov and biologist Sergei Savelyev, the found remains belong not to one animal, but to two. Scientists named them kulindapteryx ( Kulindapteryx ukureica ) and Daurosaurus ( Daurosaurusolovus ). However, the name culindadromeus still stuck to the dinosaur.

Paleontologists managed to determine the appearance of the animal due to the fact that in the middle of the Jurassic Kulinda was an active volcanic zone. During eruptions, hot ash settled, covering dinosaurs. Skin and even bones burned, but voids remained in the ash mass, on the walls of which the outer covers of the culindadromei were imprinted. A similar picture was seen by archaeologists during excavations in Pompeii - they also found air chambers left after the death of people in the thickness of the rocks. nine0003

height - 0.5 m;

length - 1.5 m;
weight - undefined

The hind limbs, hands of the front paws, as well as the long tail of Kulindadromeus were covered with scales. Feathers grew on the head, chest, body and thighs. Some of them resembled thin threads and did not exceed 1 cm in length, others were wider and longer - up to 3 cm. The dinosaur also had fluff, like a Chinese silk chicken. Since he did not have flight feathers, he could not fly, and the outer covers helped thermoregulation and at the same time served to transmit signals between animals, for example, about an approaching predator. nine0003

In 2016, the image of Kulindadromeus was placed on the flag and coat of arms of the Chernyshevsky District of the Trans-Baikal Territory, and in 2020 the Kulinda Valley received the status of a specially protected natural area.

Emblem of the Chernyshevsky District

Where to look:

Institute of Natural Resources, Ecology and Cryology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chita (Chita)

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kilescus

Kileskus aristotocus

ancestor of the same tyrannosaurus

Food type: carnivorous

Fossil age: 167.7–164.7 million years (Jurassic period)

Where found: near the city of Sharypovo, Krasnoyarsk Territory

Where to see: Local Lore Museum of the city Sharypovo

Tyrannosaurus rex ( Tyrannosaurus rex ), which lived on the territory of modern North America at the end of the Cretaceous period, was heard even by people far from paleontology. At the same time, few people know that the first tyrannosauroids appeared in Asia about a hundred million years earlier, and the oldest of them, the kilesk, comes from the Krasnoyarsk Territory. However, the Russian dinosaur was not a direct ancestor of the Ti-rex - it can rather be considered an uncle or even a great-uncle. nine0003

The generic name Kileskus comes from the Khakass word kileski - "lizard", and the specific name - aristotocus - is translated from Latin as "noble". Scientists found fragments of the dinosaur skeleton in the Berezovsky coal pit: fragments of the upper and lower jaws, as well as bones of the fore and hind limbs, including large sickle-shaped claws, were found in a relatively small area.

height - 1.8 m;

length - 4.5 m;
weight - undefined

Like other theropods (carnivorous dinosaurs), the kilesk moved on two legs, which gave it certain advantages when hunting four-legged herbivores. Paleontologists speculate that its body may have been covered with down-like feathers that provided thermoregulation.

The closest relatives of the Sharypov tyrannosauroid — the Chinese guanlong and sinotyrannus, as well as the British proceratosaurus — had a bone crest on their heads, the purpose of which is not yet clear. Perhaps, with its help, males, like modern roosters, attracted females. Family ties suggest that the Kilesk also had such a crest, but since the upper part of the dinosaur's skull has not yet been found, there is no confirmation of this. nine0003

Where to see:

Regional Museum of the city Sharypovo

03

Stegosaurus

Stegosauria indet.*

Survived the Jurassic in Siberia

Diet: herbivorous

Fossil age: 167.7–164.7 Ma (Jurassic). * remains found near the town of Sharypovo
145–125 Ma (Cretaceous). * remains found in Teete (Yakutia)

Where found: near the city of Sharypovo (Krasnoyarsk Territory), Teete (Yakutia), etc.

Where to see: Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum of Local Lore,
Local Lore Museum of the City Sharypovo ,
Novosibirsk State Museum of Local Lore

Perhaps no book on paleontology is complete without stegosaurs, herbivorous animals with a humpbacked back decorated with bone plates and a spiked tail. They also lived on the territory of Russia.

In 2005, in the vicinity of the Krasnoyarsk city of Sharypovo, paleontologists discovered many bones of stegosaurus, from which they assembled an almost complete skeleton. After studying the fossils, scientists came to the conclusion that this is not just a new species, but in general the oldest stegosaur found - it turned out to be about 7 million years older than its North American relatives. Unfortunately, the skull could not be found, and this part of the skeleton is very important for scientific classification. So for now, in paleontological databases, the "Sharypov" lizard is designated as Stegosauria indet. - Stegosaurus indeterminate. nine0003

The skeleton exhibited in the Krasnoyarsk Museum of Local Lore was called YuraShka ​​(short for Jurassic, Sharypovo, Krasnoyarsk Territory). By the standards of stegosaurs, it was very small - 4 m in length, while the largest members of the family grew up to 9 m.

height - 1. 5 m;

length - 4 m;
weight - approx. 1 t

It was possible to find bones, or rather, teeth of stegosaurus, on the banks of the Teete stream in Yakutia. And this location is notable for several things at once. First, the finds made there date back to the early Cretaceous period. In the rest of the world, stegosaurs became extinct in the late Jurassic. Only those who lived in this kind of Siberian shelter survived (biologists call such areas refugia). nine0003

Second, it was previously thought that stegosaurs could not chew, as their teeth seemed too weak and small to grind branches, leaves, and ferns. It was assumed that they simply swallowed the plucked vegetation, and rubbed it already in their stomachs with the help of swallowed stones. However, the discovery in Yakutia proved that stegosaurs did learn to chew: Russian paleontologists found characteristic wear on their teeth.

Finally, very small teeth were found in Teete, which belonged to cubs. This means that dinosaurs constantly lived and multiplied in the circumpolar region. nine0003

In addition to Sharypovo and Teete, the remains of stegosaurs were found in the localities of Kalbak-Kyry (Tuva), Shestakovo (Kemerovo region), as well as on the rivers Bolshoy Ilek, Bolshoi Kemchug and Bolshaya Terekhtyul (Krasnoyarsk Territory).

Where to see:

Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum of Local Lore Museum of the city Sharypovo Novosibirsk State Museum of Local Lore

04

diplodocoid

Diplodocoidea indet.*

dinosaur from the bottom of the Central Russian Sea

Food type: herbivorous

Fossil age: 165 million years (Jurassic period)

Where found: Peski quarry, Moscow region and tourism

Diplodocoids are one of the largest land animals ever to roam our planet. Thus, the length of the supersaurus (Supersaurus vivianae) found in the USA from the muzzle to the tip of the tail reached 34 m. Diplodocoids were also found on the territory of Russia: the remains of the lizard, however, of a much more modest size - no more than 10 m, were found in the Sands quarry near Moscow. Unfortunately, it is not yet possible to determine which family the individual belonged to. The morphology of the vertebrae brings it closer to dicreosaurids (Dicraeosauridae) - animals with relatively short necks, which in later members of the family were decorated with long spines. But so far, in scientific works, the dinosaur near Moscow is listed as Diplodocoidea indet. (diplodocoid indeterminate). nine0003

height - up to 3 m;

length - up to 10 m;
weight - undefined

The tail vertebrae of the animal were discovered back in 1997 by Alexander Vydrik, a student of the Faculty of Geology of Moscow State University. For more than 20 years they have lain in the Museum of the Moscow City Station for Young Naturalists as "pliosaurus vertebrae" - an aquatic predatory reptile, which, like other inhabitants of the seas and oceans, did not belong to dinosaurs. The mistake is quite understandable: most of the modern European part of Russia in the Mesozoic was covered by seas, and hardly anyone expected to find a land animal, and even as large as a diplodocus. However, a few years ago, scientists re-examined the vertebrae and found that they belonged to a herbivorous giant. nine0003

Presumably, the pangolin lived on one of the islands in the middle of the Central Russian Sea. When the dinosaur died, the carcass was swept into the water, and for some time it drifted until marine predators paid attention to it. Only part of the tail survived, which fell to the bottom. Over time, it was covered with sediment, and the vertebrae petrified.

It is noteworthy that the bones of the lizard discovered in the Sands are about 7 million years older than any remains of its relatives from North America. This confirms the long-standing hypothesis that diplodocoids, like other neosauropods, originated in what is now Asia, and from there spread throughout the planet. nine0003

Diplodocus led a herd life, and fought off predators with the help of a long tail. They fed on club mosses and ferns, supplementing this diet with shrub leaves. It is possible that a multi-meter neck helped them gnaw at the tops of trees, but scientists do not yet know if diplodocus could lift it vertically. The hind legs of the lizard were noticeably longer than the front ones - presumably, during feeding, the animals stood up on two legs to become even taller.

Where to look:

Moscow Children and Youth Center for Ecology, Local History and Tourism

05

Siberotitan

Sibirotitan Astrosacralis

Weighed as four elephants

Type of power: Planty

Age of fossils: 129.4–125 million years (Cretaceous period)

where the villages were found: near the villages of the Six. Where to see: Paleontological Museum. V. Khakhlova TSU, Tomsk (Tomsk)
Kuzbass State Museum of Local Lore, Kemerovo (Kemerovo)

In 1967, the bones of some ancient animal were found on the steep, almost sheer bank of the Kiya River near the village of Shestakovo (Kemerovo Region). The fossils were sent for study to the Paleontological Museum in Moscow, and the excavations were suspended for 27 years. During this time, the bank continued to collapse, the bones fell into the river, and they were carried away by water.

Paleontologists made a new discovery only in 1994, having found a claw, and a year later, several bones of the foot. Then it became clear that the dinosaur buried in the thick of the earth was a real giant and, apparently, belonged to the group of sauropods - four-legged herbivorous dinosaurs with a long neck, small head and powerful legs. nine0003

During the following years, excavations were actively carried out at the Shestakovo-1 site, during which several teeth and vertebrae were found. But almost two decades passed before the dinosaur was given a name - Siberian Titanium. It received its specific name astrosacralis because of the characteristic shape of the sacrum - the part of the spine that adjoins the pelvis. Literally, this means "stellar-sacral", and paleontologists sometimes jokingly call Sibirotitan "stellar-backed".

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length - 20 m;
weight — 20 t

The animal was classified as a titanosauroform. By the standards of its group, Siberian Titanium was relatively small - it weighed about 20 tons, while the mass of some of its relatives reached 60-65 tons. However, you cannot call him ordinary. Sibirotitan is the oldest sauropod ever found in Asia. In the Cretaceous period, the territory of modern Kuzbass was a semi-desert, and a herbivorous dinosaur could feed only on the banks of rivers and lakes. nine0003

The large size of the Siberian Titanium served as a reliable defense against most predators, and those who still dared to attack, the giant could knock down with a blow of its tail and trample underfoot.

Where to see:

Paleontological Museum. V. Khakhlov TSU, Tomsk (Tomsk) Kuzbass State Museum of Local Lore, Kemerovo (Kemerovo)

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Psittacosaurus

Psittacosaurus sibiricus

something between a chicken and a peacock

Food type: herbivorous

Fossil age: 125–113 million years (Cretaceous period)

Where found: near the village of Shestakovo, Kemerovo region

Where to see: Kemerovo Regional Museum of Local Lore, Kemerovo 9008 them. V. Khakhlova, Tomsk (Tomsk)
Paleontological Museum. Yu. Orlova, Moscow (Moscow)
Novosibirsk State Museum of Local Lore