Brachiosaurus

If I was the leader of a band, I would call it Brachiosaurus and the Sauropods. I would avoid silly jokes about the Hard Rock Café, ​but we

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Gideon Mantell

Gideon Mantell - the man who discoveredIguanodon, the second dinosaur ever found Medical doctor, geologist, palaeontologist and ground-breaking thinker. His discovery of Iguanodon, the realisation that he had

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Sir Richard Owen

Sir Richard Owen - the man who invented the term 'Dinosaur'​Sir Richard Owen was a troublesome man, but a brilliant biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist, and it was he who

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Triceratops

Triceratops is one of the classic dinosaurs discovered during the grand days of dinosaur bone hunting in the American West back in the 19th Century. Triceratops looms large

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The Natural History Museum

Britain's Natural History Museum is one of the finest places on Earth for Dinosaurs and Prehistoric LifeBritain's Natural History Museum is one of the world’s finest, housing an

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Carnegie Museum of Natural History

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, houses the third largest dinosaur fossil collection on Earth, upstaged only by the AMNH and the Smithsonian. However, it

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The American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) features large in many of the DinoZone’s write ups on fossil hunting expeditions and dinosaurs. It is located on the Upper

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The First Plants

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fucus_serratus_2015-09-08_ag_M0010140.jpg The first plants to appear on Earth were seaweeds. They showed up around 1000 million years ago, and compared to the single-celled bacteria and blue green algae

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Life Begins

Archaea (prokaryotic microbes) were first found in extreme environments, such as hydrothermal vents. Source: WikipediaLife began way back when the Earth was young. The remains of these early

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The DinoZone Dinosaur Park

Visit the DinoZone Dinosaur Park at Piggly WigglyThere is so much fun to be had at the DinoZone Dinosaur Park, situated at Piggly Wiggly on the R103 at Lion's

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