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The "Tyrant lizard King" is the best known of all dinosaurs. It is the most famous of all the dinosaurs or all the prehistoric animals for that matter. T-Rex is one of the largest dinosaur, measured 11 - 12.8 m (36 - 42 ft) long and weighed 6 - 9 tonnes. It's head and neck were so powerful with teeth the size of bananas, that is the largest tooth of any carnivorous dinosaur measuring up to 12 inches (30 cm) in length. T-Rex had the powerful bite of any extinct or living terrestrial animal ever. It had a bite force of 12,800 pounds and could eat up to 500 pounds of meat and bones in one bite!!  

 Fossils have been found in North America (Colorado,Montana,New Mexico,North/South Dakota,Texas,Utah,Wyoming) and Canada (Alberta and Saskatchewan).




Triceratops is one of the most recognizable and famous dinosaur. It is armed with three horns and it's neck heavily armored with a protective solid bony frill. Triceratops could stand about 9.5 - 10 feet tall or more, 26 - 30 feet long and weighed 6 - 10 tonnes.

Fossils have been found in North America (Colorado,Montana,South Dakota,Wyoming) and Canada (Alberta and Saskatchewan).




The Woolly Mammoth is closely related to modern elephants. It is known from many different ways, numerous cave paintings from our human ancestors, frozen carcasses with skeletons, stomach contents, tusks and even liquid blood still intact. It is well known than any other prehistoric animal.
          The Woolly mammoth stood around 9 - 11 feet tall and weighed upto 6 tonnes.  Despite the word "Mammoth" indicating immense proportions, the woolly mammoth actually wasn't the biggest mammoth species but it is the most famous proboscidean and indeed the most famous mammal of all time.

Fossils have been found in Eurasia (Russia, Asia, Europe).




Stegosaurus is one of the most easily recognizable plant-eating dinosaur for it's diamond-shaped bony plates. This armored dinosaur used it's formidable spiked tail to defend itself from predators. Stegosaurus was upto 30 feet long and weighed around 5 tonnes.

Fossils have been found in North America (Utah, Wyoming, and Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado), western Europe, southern India, China, and southern Africa.




Brachiosaurus is one of the tallest and heaviest dinosaurs of all time. For many decades, the well known iconic brachiosaurus was the largest dinosaur known and it is among the famous dinosaurs. Brachiosaurus stood about 40 to 50 feet tall and weighed 35 to 56 tonnes.

Fossils have been found in North America (Utah, Texas and Colorado).




Diplodocus is one of the most easily recognizable and famous dinosaur with its long neck and whip-like tail. It was thought to be the longest dinosaur for many years. The largest species measured about 32 - 33.5 m (105 - 110 ft) in length and perhaps weighed about 25 or 30 tonnes. 

Fossils have been found in North America (Colorado, Utah, Montana and Wyoming).

Great artwork, Sameer! Thanks for posting this. Putting a person in each picture gives a very clear idea of just how massive the dinosaurs were.

This is splendid art work, Sameer! Thank you.

You have illustrated beautifully how huge those creatures were.
I would not like to be a quick snack for any of them!  

Beautiful pictures! I do love the mammoth. I still hope they can clone them. Of course I still want to see a dinosaur clone.

Spinosaurus is the first known semi-aquatic dinosaur and it was among the the largest carnivorous dinosaurs. It has long arms with huge claws and unlike most other theropods, spinosaurus possessed a long, narrow, crocodile-like snout with conical non-serrated sharp teeth that were suitable to catch fish. Spinosaurus measured about 15–16 m (49–52 ft) and weighed about 6 - 8 tonnes or more.

Fossils have been found in Egypt and Morocco.




Ankylosaurus is a genus of armored dinosaur.The largest known ankylosaurid, Ankylosaurus measured 6 - 8 m (19.7 - 26.2 feet) long and weighed in the neighborhood of 4 - 8 tonnes. It was a quadrupedal animal, with a broad robust body. It had a wide, low skull, with two horns pointing backwards from the back of the head, and two horns below these that pointed backwards and down.

Fossils have been found in North America.




Parasaurolophus is a hadrosaurid, part of a diverse family of dinosaurs known for their range of bizarre head adornments. It could grow about 30 - 33 feet long and weighs about 2.5 - 4 tonnes.

Fossils have been found in North America. (New Mexico, Alberta (Canada) and Utah)




Paraceratherium was among the largest land mammals along with some proboscideans. It is the tallest land mammal and weighs about 11 - 13 tonnes. Some large individuals could weigh upto 17 tonnes.

Fossils have been found across Eurasia (China, Mongolia, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, and the Balkans.)




Edmontosaurus is the archetype of hadrosaurs. Edmontosaurus regalis is one of the largest hadrosaurids, measuring about 30 - 40 feet in length and weighed in the neighborhood of 4 to 7 tonnes. This dinosaur was so common that it has been nicknamed the cow of the Cretaceous.

Fossils have been found in North America. (Alberta (Canada), Alaska, Colorado) 




The Woolly rhinoceros is one of the few Ice Age mammals to be memorialized in cave paintings. It had a  height of upto 6.6 feet at the shoulders and a weight upto 2.7 tonnes or more. Thus it is comparable or slightly larger than the extant White rhinoceros.

Fossils have been found in Eurasia. (Russia, Asia, Europe).




Megaloceros is one of the largest deer that ever lived. The Irish elk stood about 2 - 2.1 m (6.6 - 6.9 ft) tall at the shoulders and weighed about 540–700 kg (1,190–1,543 lb). It carried the largest antlers of any known cervid (a maximum of 3.65 m (12.0 ft) from tip to tip and weighing up to 40 kg (88 lb)). In body size, the Irish Elk tied with the extant Alaskan Moose as the third largest known deer.

Fossils have been found in Europe and Asia (Austria, Britain, China, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Siberia ) and Africa.

The Parasaurolophus has a very unusual head. Interesting.

Thank you so much Sameer. These are fascinating. I didn't know about all those different Dinosaurs and extinct species.
I like the Irish Elk. Wow! That is a big Deer!

I always liked Spinosaurus. It is an unusual dinosaur. They are all special in their own way, but I like the unique look.

Titanoboa is impressive. I think I will pass on wanting one as a pet.

(09-07-2018, 02:59 PM)Catherine Wrote: [ -> ]I always liked Spinosaurus. It is an unusual dinosaur. They are all special in their own way, but I like the unique look. Titanoboa is impressive. I think I will pass on wanting one as a pet.

Indeed Titanoboa is impressive. That snake is like, once in a lifetime discovery. Seriously you want that as a pet ?  
Then you won't have your other pets.

(09-03-2018, 08:10 PM)LPC Wrote: [ -> ]Great artwork, Sameer! Thanks for posting this. Putting a person in each picture gives a very clear idea of just how massive the dinosaurs were.

Thank you.

(09-07-2018, 09:45 AM)Tobi Wrote: [ -> ]Thank you so much Sameer. These are fascinating. I didn't know about all those different Dinosaurs and extinct species. I like the Irish Elk. Wow! That is a big Deer!

Thanks. The Irish Elk is big but this will surprise you that it is the third largest known deer. There are 2 other extinct cervids (stag-moose and broad-fronted moose) which are bigger than the Irish Elk. The broad-fronted moose weighed as much as the modern American bison. The Irish Elk holds the record of having the largest antlers. Seeing any of these cervids up close will be quite a sight.

It would be so amazing to be able to go back in time and really see these creatures (at a distance of course!)

Some of them have quite friendly smiley faces....like Ankylosaurus. But if he wagged his tail, we'd be in for it!

Styracosaurus is licking his lips about how tasty that man is going to be!