Isisaurus

isisaurus

In Depth        Originally named in‭ ‬1997‭ ‬as Titanosaurus colberti by Jain and Bandyopadhyay,‭ ‬a new study by Wilson and‭ ‬Upchurch in‭ ‬2003‭ ‬saw the fossils renamed as a new genus,‭ ‬Isisaurus.‭ ‬Isisaurus was named after the Indian Statistical Institute and should not be confused with the goddess Isis from Ancient Egyptian mythology.        Isisaurus was a … Read more

Rapator

In Depth        Australia would have had a lot of dinosaurs roaming around during the Mesozoic but the harsh conditions of the land mean that when dinosaur remains are discovered they are often very fragmentory and of a single bone.‭ ‬Thus Rapator is currently only known from a single small bone,‭ ‬kind of like other Australian … Read more