Dinosaur of the week: Gorgosaurus

Dinosaur of the week: Gorgosaurus

Gorgosaurus is a tyrannosauridae dinosaur. Its name means dreadful lizard and it lived in the Late Cretaceous. The dinosaur was 30 feet long and was 9 feet tall. It weighed about 2 and a half tons. It was the top predator of its time. It lived in North America.

One Year Of Half Asleep Dinos!

One Year Of Half Asleep Dinos!

Its been one year since I launched Half Asleep Dinos! My first ever post was about Dynamoterror, an awesome tyrannosaurus! You can check it out right here! Thank you all for checking out my website and looking at it! While your here here are some fun things to celebrate!

Best Half Asleep Dinos Posts (In my Opinion)

• Apatosaurus or Brontosaurus
• Spinosaurus: Different than you know!
• Ledumahadi : Giant Thunderclap
• Cleveland's Museum Of Natural History Review
• The Royal Ontario Museum Review

Check Out the other pages on Half Asleep Dinos

• Dinosaur Data
• Archive Of Prehistoric Dinosaur Facts
• Photos
• Events
• Activies

Did you Know?

If you type www.halfasleepdinos.com/p/error or anything else you get a fun little easter egg!

I hope you enjoy this Year of Half Asleep Dinos!

Dinosaur of the week: Carnotaurus

Dinosaur of the week: Carnotaurus

Carnotaurus is a carnivore theropod that lived in late Cretaceous. Its arms were even tinyer than T-rex`s. It had two horns on it head which is why its was name was Carnotaurus which means Meat Eating bull. There has only been one carnotaurus found.

Siamraptor - A new thailand Dinosaur

Siamraptor - A new thailand Dinosaur

A new dinosaur has been discovered! It was a carcharodontosaurian dinosaur that lived in the early cretaceous. It is one of the most complete dinosaur skeleton found in Thailand. One of the paleontologists that found this dinosaur hopes that more people will realize that Thailand has more dinosaurs than some people may think.

Dinosaur of the Week: Agustinia

Dinosaur of the Week: Agustinia

One of the most unique sauropods, Agustinia! Its 15 meters long and was discovered in Neuquen, Argentina. The spikes on the back of Agustinia are used to defend from predators. It was originally named Augsustia but that name was all righted taken so they renamed it to Agustinia in 1999. This is one of my favorite dinosaur and I was glad I could do a post about it!

Dinosaur of the Week: Ankylosaurus

Dinosaur of the Week: Ankylosaurus

What would a living tank look like? Well, you may just be thinking of a tank with eyes I think of Ankylosaurus. Its name mean "Fused Lizard". Ankylosaurus is one of the biggest Ankylosaurs at 6 meters long. It was discovered by Barnum Brown (The same guy who discovered T-rex) in 1908. Ankylosaurus was a herbivore, but its teeth couldn't`t crush plants so instead they striped the leaves of the branches then digest it.

Art: https://www.deviantart.com/baryonyx-walkeri

Battle at Big Rock Review

Battle at Big Rock Review (SPOILERS)

For those who didn`t know there was a Jurassic world short film released recently. It`s only eight minutes long and takes place after Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and I am going to cover it since this is a blog about dinosaurs. The sections were covering are Story, cinematography and of course Dinosaurs. So let`s just jump in!

Story

The story was alright, not much though. But it is just a short film so that can be expected but I will still give a rundown of the story! The film starts with a family at a campsite, but then a wild Nasutoceratops comes up and just check thing out with her baby. But then an allosaurus pops up and starts attacking. After a male Nasutoceratops scares away the allosaurus from the female, it then attacks the truck with a family inside. After some screaming, the girl shoots the allosaurus with a crossbow. Then the short film ends but not without fun credits to go along with the film. The credits show people getting attack by dinosaurs in the wild. I would suggest checking out the credits yourselves. 

Cinematography

The cinematography of the film is great! One scene really shows this. The scene is where the allosaurus is roaring at the family with the campfire in the background. But the film is really dark, and it makes it hard to see the dinosaurs. But other than that the film was great!

The scene!

Dinosaurs

The dinosaurs were great. The Nasutoceratops looked like a nasutoceratops! But I do have some problems with the allosaurus. In real life, allosaurus didn`t have back spikes like in the film and of course feathers, it had feathers. But other than that the dinosaurs were good.

Overall

The film was great! Just the darkness and the Allosaurus not being realistic knocks it down to a 9 out of 10. But I would still check it out if you like dinosaurs!

RATING: 9/10

NEWS: New updates coming to the website!

NEWS: New updates coming to the website!

Alright, I am doing a little update because I want to. If you really don`t care about the website and just the website you can skip this. So lets just start with the biggest thing first. DINOSAUR OF THE WEEK! It`s a new thing I am doing were I spotlight a dinosaur for the week! (Counts for the Saturday post but it won`t be the only thing I do every week. I may not do a dinosaur of the week every week.) Half Asleep Dinos is having its 1 year anniversary in one month, so to celebrate if you post any fan art in the comments of this post they will be featured in the post! Anyways that all I wanted to say!

Dinosaur of the week: Megaraptor

Dinosaur of the week: Megaraptor

Despite the name Megaraptor, Megaraptor is not a raptor but an tyrannosauroid! It had a claw is 16 inches long on each hand. It was 26 feet long and it weighted about 2 tons. It can run at the speed of 31 miles per hour. Some paleontologists think that Megaraptor is the adult version of Unenlagia.

Art : https://www.deviantart.com/paleopastori

Huge Fossils in The Children's Museum of Indianapolis

Huge Fossils in The Children's Museum of Indianapolis

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is taking huge fossil and putting it into their musem. The fossil being taking are from Jurassic Mile. A area full of dinosaurs. The fossil are mostly from sauropods.

(sorry, for the short post this week. Not much things to talk about this week.)

The Royal Ontario Museum Review

 The Royal Ontario Museum Review

I recently got a chance to go to The Royal Ontario Museum and it has one of the best dinosaur hall I have ever seen. I am only reviewing the dinosaur parts of the Museum, the other parts are for someone else. 

The Futalongnkosaurus

When you walk into the museum you see a huge skeleton. This is a great opening for the museum! Most museums have a sauropod in the main hall, but this one is just really well constructed.

The Quetzalcoatlus

When you get to the dinosaur area you first see a quetzalcatlus (Yes, it`s not a dinosaur but they put it into the area so I am talking about it) It hangs right over the main hall. It`s skull is super long and you can almost touch it. It`s Awesome

The Main Stuff

After you see the Quetzalcoatlus, you go down a hall to see a bunch of dinosaur skeletons. I don`t have much to say here, there all really good. If I have to nitpick I wish the color of the walls were not just white.

The New Dinosaur discovered

The last dinosaur bit was a section was they talked about a new dinosaur being discovered. The dinosaur was wendiceratops, the room wasn`t full of much expect for the floor were they showed the dig site.

Wrap Up

This is a great museum! I don`t have many things to complain about expect for that he color of the walls are always white. Not much mix up, but other than that this is great museum! 

RATING : 9/10