Getting to Grips will all those Long Animal Names
Over the last few weeks or so, team members at Everything Dinosaur have had a number of requests for information regarding prehistoric animals recently seen in the BBC television series “Planet Dinosaur”. We have provided assistance and advice but we have had many requests for help with pronunciation, not only for the dinosaurs featured in the six-part series but also for the prehistoric animals that appear in the book that accompanies these programmes.
“Planet Dinosaur”
We have gone through all our notes and documents related to these programmes compiling a list of the extinct animals featured, their names, how to pronounce them and an explanation of the name’s meaning. We intend to publish this pronunciation list in three parts, as there are so many different creatures to consider.
The first part of the list is published below. This list covers animal names from A-D, the rest of the list will be published in the next few days or so.
Pronunciation Guide to “Planet Dinosaur”
Prehistoric animals from A to D. – a pronunciation guide.
Table credit: Everything Dinosaur
Hope this helps, a dinosaur pronunciation guide from Everything Dinosaur team members.
For models and replicas of prehistoric animals including many of the extinct creatures that featured in the television documentary series: Prehistoric Animal Figures and Dinosaur Models.
I WAS WONDERING WHEN IN WHERE WE’RE DINOSAURS WE’RE LIVING BEFORE THEY ALL PASSED ON.
The Dinosauria, probably evolved in what was South America somewhere between 245 and 232 million years ago. Continents were joined together much more then than now, so a group of animals could rapidly spread around the world. This is what the dinosaurs did and over the next 160 million years or so they became the dominant terrestrial life form living on every continent including Antarctica (much warmer in the Jurassic and the Cretaceous than today). Something like 1,200 genera of dinosaurs have been described but probably more than 10,000+ different types of dinosaur evolved over the time they were around. Birds are technically dinosaurs (Maniraptoriformes), there are still more species of birds on the planet today than species of mammals – a testament to the staying power and adaptability of the dinosaur body plan.