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A major species of reptiles that dominated the Earth approximately 160 million years ago. They consisted of some of the largest animals that have ever existed on the planet. The reason for their decline is not yet known, but a meteor is thought to have eradicated them 65 million years ago.

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I am trying to identify a movie that I watched in the mid-90s in Germany, though I'm certain that it was no German movie. I would guess by the style that it was from the 80s or maybe 70s. Live-action, ...
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The Star Trek: Voyager episode "Distant Origin", aired 30 April 1997, has the Voth, dinosaurs that went into space and then evolved into a humanoid form. What's the earliest example of that ...
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USA in English. Maybe a Library book from the 1970s or paperback from the 1980s. A group of explorers (4-10 people?) have traveled back in time to the age of the dinosaurs. The time travel portal ...
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Protagonist can time travel psychically at will, as far back as the Mesozoic. His only weapon is a double bit throwing axe with a spike. He’s unique in his ability to travel that far in time. He ...
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This is a sort story from an anthology printed before 1994. I suspect it was written in the '70s, but am not sure. A schoolboy drew a picture of a small animal he'd seen in a garden, which he thought ...
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This was a short sci-fi story I read in middle school. The story starts with officers on a spaceship talking about a probe that was accidentally left on the third planet of a system they were passing ...
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I’m trying to find a book series! It was about sentient dinosaurs that had evolved and changed, and lived in a medieval kingdom time. It was based around three protagonists, with the leader being a ...
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I remember watching a few cartoons from the franchise, Denver, the Last Dinosaur, about a dinosaur that survived to this day. However, I also vaguely remember seeing a trailer for another 3D-animated ...
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So I remember seeing and hearing about this video that was VHS originally but was uploaded to YouTube. It had I think 3 stories in it, but I only remember 2 of them. It was narrated by an older woman/...
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I am trying to identify a cartoon I saw many years ago, where a group of people are rafting down a river in a prehistoric cave. There were dinosaurs on the shore. If I remember right, the river ...
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The flashbacks were about Helen Walker (the 21 Century Australian woman who wrote the Dossiers in-game) in her life on Earth. She was seen with a blue-haired woman and the two were reallly good ...
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The novel that I am trying to find a name for seems to be something that's fairly devoid of information on the internet, I will summarize as best as I can a few key points and hopefully that can jog ...
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I remember reading the book in 3rd grade. The main characters were a team of large humanoid dinosaurs that were fighting against a similar team of humanoid dinosaurs led by a large alien who had a ...
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A boy travels back in time to see this girl who looks after dinosaurs. I believe her name was Fern and she has ginger curly hair. I can't really remember anything else about the book, but I know he ...
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I remember watching this in 2007 in France, but as it was an American/English/Australian(?) show, I assume that it was released in 2005 or maybe 2006. There were a group of friends in middle/high(?) ...
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I read this story about 20 years ago, but it could be older. It was in a small book by itself, not a collection, probably a paperback. But it was rather short for a novel, maybe a novella. I am ...
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This might be a tricky one. It may be more of a short story. I only know the plot. Two boys or maybe men are exploring near water in a jungle when a large predator cat scares them into a nearby cave. ...
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I am looking for a series. I saw it somewhere online in recent years, but from the style I would guess it was made in the 90s. I saw it in Japanese language, without subtitles, so my understanding of ...
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I read a book series about 15 years ago. It’s about these humanoid dinosaurs, I think the covers were red, green and blue, one of the main characters was a triceratops. And I think the flying and ...
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There is a city or kingdom inhabited by dinosaurs. MC is a young man (perhaps a prince) who defends this kingdom from the armies of evil. There was a battle scene where he flew on a pterodactyl ...
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I'm trying to track down a series of cards a friend of mine had back in the early 90's and I'm not sure if they were actually a game or just a collectable series. The cards told the story that, for ...
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Please help me identify the name of a '90s or early 2000s cartoon. The woman is white, blonde, attractive and tough looking. Her hairstyle is in a ponytail, but might be armified like a jarhead. The ...
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I remember them saying the dinos were all female to prevent reproduction, but that they reproduced anyhow because of frog DNA used to make them. I thought at first this meant some turned into males to ...
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I remember once having seen a book about the discovery/invention of a time travel portal into the age of dinosaurs. The caveat: it is a one-way portal. You cannot return. The portal attracts ...
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Recently, I remembered this book series I read as a kid, maybe 13 or 14 years ago. It wasn’t a children's books, maybe more like young-adult. I found a similar post on this forum from about 4 years ...
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I’m trying to find the name of a book (or maybe a short story?) where some humans encounter a spaceship that is essentially half a Dyson sphere with a hole in the center. The craft concentrates lasers ...
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I'm looking for a short story I read in a magazine like OMNI, probably in the late 80s or early 90s. It was set in the near future where time travel was possible. People were using it to visit the ...
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Recent book, Probably within the last 5 years. Maybe newer. Might be a HaremLit book. Unfortunately I only read the first few chapters and now I can't find it. (E-book version, don't know if a paper ...
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It was set in the stone age. The boy was part of a tribe, they had rituals (I remember fire ants being a part of the "becoming a man" ritual.) The boy had a pet dinosaur, I believe it was ...
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Looking for a short story from probably 70s or 80s. I can't remember most details but I think it involves a paleontologist and another scientist chatting. The paleontologist is in a desert and ...
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In this book, the class pet gets turned into a T. Rex or Allosaurus and causes havoc in the neighborhood. At the end, it eats a teacher and its revealed that aliens turned the lizard into a dinosaur. ...
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I'm looking for a novel about intelligent dinosaurs and aliens. Probably published in the early 90's. Paperback, English. Cover was a green alien resembling a small, predatory dinosaur (similar to ...
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In “Speckles: The Tarbosaurus” (2012), Speckles’ mate Blue Eyes sustained an injury to her left leg, but she healed. Later, however, the same leg was reinjured when she had a rock falling on it. Did ...
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I forgot the name of the film, which involves a red light glowing dinosaur, or something similar to Godzilla. In the story, people are trying to stop it and using earthwork to trap it with the ...
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Definitely a PC side scrolling platformer with a female main character. I think she fights dinosaurs but I could be wrong, maybe there are some lizards or big birds. From the way I remember graphics ...
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I'm looking for an old anime I used to watch as a kid, for which I have only some glimpses of the story. It was probably made during the '80s, and I remember a black-haired, black-dressed boy as a ...
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There's a story (I think it's Soviet SciFi), with an alien fossil found near a fossil of a dinosaur with laser-drilled holes in its skeleton, and the story revolves about finding the skull of one of ...
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My husband wants to find a short story he read in Analog magazine about Israeli scientists using a time-travelling device to go to the time of dinosaurs. (The device is not precisely accurate as to ...
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I've been trying to remember the name of a cartoon I watched around 2010 about a dinosaur that eats clouds. He lives on the clouds and comes down during the day, where he meets his friends, and one of ...
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I remember watching something on TV where when humans became space-faring, they meet dinosaurs that have advanced technology. They give the humans the technology to teleport vast distances, like in ...
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I found this site today while searching for a book and hope someone can help. When I was a boy I read a hard-bound anthology of science fiction stories. This was circa 1986, but the book might have ...
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I'm trying to identify a Young Adult novel I read when I was, well, a young adult, so it must have been around 1970 (though of course it could have been written much earlier). Two friends visit a ...
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This is a series of books that starts off with a bunch of humans being abducted and sent back in time roughly 65 million years. They start to build a civilization and take dinosaurs to help out. They ...
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I borrowed this book from the young adult section of a library between 2008 and 2013 (I've checked the library catalog to no avail). The plot was something about how there were a group of humans ...
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I have seen a preview to a movie or TV series on Netflix. The preview showed some super heroes (I believe) and they were walking around a city with large buildings. There were dinosaurs in the ...
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In the mid-1980s, the Timberland Regional Library branch in downtown Olympia, Washington had a series of books about some children who discovered that a museum exhibit about dinosaurs could transport ...
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We see dinosaurs in SFF worlds all the time. e.g. Jurassic Park, Terra Nova, Doctor Who, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Teen Titans etc. After the discovery of dinosaurs, which SFF work was ...
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I think I watched this in the mid 90s. A group of kids are supposed to meet a paleontologist, I think at a museum. At the meeting place, they find a message from him (and I think a broken crate and ...
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I'm looking for this series of books, teen to adult rating. It was about sentient dinosaurs that had evolved and changed, and lived in a medieval kingdom time. It was based around three protagonists,...
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There was a cartoon about some kids who found dinosaur fossils and made them into pets that could fight other dinosaurs. It also had time travel involved. I think it was a mid 2000s show.
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