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Meaning of name: Great beast Named by: Georges Cuvier, 1796 Time period: Early Pliocene-early Holocene Size: 6m long Diet: Herbivore Origin: South America Fossils seen at: London, Edinburgh, Paris Interesting fact: Some experts have suggested Megatherium had an omnivorous diet, and the BBC series Walking with … Continued

Meaning of name: Spine lizard Named by: Ernst Stromer, 1915 Time period: Early part of late Cretaceous Size: 14-15m long Diet: Carnivore Origin: Africa Fossils seen at: Paris Interesting fact: Although evidence points to one of the largest predatory dinosaurs feeding on … Continued

Meaning of name: Three-horned face Named by: Othniel Charles Marsh, 1889 Time period: Late Cretaceous Size: Up to 9m long Diet: Herbivore Origin: North America Fossils seen at: Belfast, London, Edinburgh, Paris Interesting fact: An earlier relative of Triceratops, Psittacosaurus from early Cretaceous … Continued

Meaning of name: Tyrant lizard Named by: Henry Fairfield Osborn, 1905 Time period: Late Cretaceous Size: 13m long Diet: Carnivore Origin: North America Fossils seen at: Belfast, London, Edinburgh, Paris. Also seen in Dublin Zoo’s Zoorassic World Interesting fact: The idea that T. rex and … Continued

Meaning of name: Mammuthus primigenius means ‘first-born mammoth’ Named by: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, 1799 Time period: Middle Pleistocene-late Holocene Size: 2.8-3.15m tall for males, 2.3-2.6m tall for females Diet: Herbivore Origin: North America and Eurasia Fossils seen at: Dublin, Belfast, London, Edinburgh, Paris Interesting fact: Although … Continued