English palaeontological atlas
Life’s history, written in stone
Explore dinosaurs through fossils, anatomy, measurements and the evidence behind each scientific reconstruction.
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- pages in English
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- dinosaur profiles
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- interactive guide
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Only completed English sections appear here. New categories and homepage blocks will be added as their articles are translated and reviewed.
Tyrannosaurus rex
A bone-crushing bite, rapid adolescent growth and a fossil record that can test old assumptions.
Read the profile → Late CretaceousVelociraptor
A small feathered predator from the Gobi Desert, not the human-sized movie animal.
Read the profile → Interactive guideSize comparison
Turn metres and tonnes into buses, elephants and people while keeping the uncertainty visible.
Open the comparison →How to read the site
A fossil is evidence. A living animal is a reconstruction.
Palaeontology joins incomplete bones, geological context and comparisons with living animals. Strong conclusions use several independent lines of evidence. Details such as colour, sound and social behaviour often remain much less certain.
Start with the specimen
Which bones, tracks or traces were actually found?
Name the method
Length and mass depend on reconstruction and modelling choices.
Keep the range
A defensible interval is usually more useful than a dramatic single number.
Mark the unknowns
Missing evidence is not permission to fill gaps with certainty.