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Section size for Dinosaur (39 sections)
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(Top)	10,540	10,540
Definition	4,564	17,081
General description	5,854	5,854
Distinguishing anatomical features	6,663	6,663
History of study	58	33,220
Pre-scientific history	994	994
Early dinosaur research	4,870	4,870
Discoveries in North America	2,951	2,951
"Dinosaur renaissance" and beyond	7,227	7,227
Soft tissue and molecular preservation	17,120	17,120
Evolutionary history	25	20,022
Origins and early evolution	12,124	12,124
Evolution and paleobiogeography	7,873	7,873
Classification	3,332	23,501
Taxonomy	12,182	12,182
Timeline of major groups	7,987	7,987
Paleobiology	1,848	57,762
Size	3,197	14,715
Largest and smallest	11,518	11,518
Behavior	6,012	6,012
Communication	3,222	3,222
Reproductive biology	8,948	8,948
Physiology	23,017	23,017
Origin of birds	1,926	14,513
Feathers	8,184	8,184
Skeleton	910	910
Soft anatomy	1,464	1,464
Behavioral evidence	2,029	2,029
Extinction of major groups	5,201	36,485
Pre-extinction diversity	5,785	5,785
Impact event	9,984	9,984
Deccan Traps	12,625	12,625
Possible Paleocene survivors	2,890	2,890
Cultural depictions	3,662	3,662
See also	300	300
Notes	34	34
References	54,049	54,049
Bibliography	16,518	16,518
Further reading	2,534	2,534
Total	290,221	290,221

Saturnalia hyperlink

"Saturnalia" should be hyperlinked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia_tupiniquim Hoegbert (talk) 12:00, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh wait - I see that the scientific name is mentioned earlier in the article and highlighted Hoegbert (talk) 12:01, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[I put this here for lack of knowledge how to make a new topic heading.]. In this entire article about dinosaurs, there is no mention of Mary Anning, even though she gets a separate Wiki page for herself. Since she was the one who found a heck of a lot of fossils from 1812 into the 1840's, I'd think that today at least we could give her some of the credit she earned. JayWarner (talk) 23:26, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unexplained drop in page views

Can anyone recall an edit somewhere which may have caused a drop of over 1,000 views a day for the past 11 days? By far the lowest daily totals since 2015. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 01:53, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Non-Avian Dinosaurs

Trying to edit a big error in the first paragraph, but oddly the page keeps dropping to an error page, so perhaps someone else can? T. rex is an Avian Dinosaur. It is not a bird. Final sentence first paragraph is incorrect. Abdul Muhib (talk) 01:17, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Avian" literally means "bird". It is correct. Lythronaxargestes (talk | contribs) 01:49, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can't quite see what you're referring to? The last sentence in the first paragraph refers to birds, living avian dinosaurs, and extinct non-avian dinosaurs, like the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Lamaredia (talk) 02:34, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Include Mary Anning -- who found many of the early fossils (and knew what she had:)

Mary Anning was the one who found many of the fossils along the Lymm Regis coast area, and learned a great deal about them. At this late date, surely we can give her some of the credit for finding & analyzing them. After all, she also gets a Wiki page of her own. JayWarner (talk) 23:33, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

She was very important to palaeontology as a whole, but she did not find any dinosaur fossils; she is famous for discovering various marine reptiles which are not dinosaurs, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, as well as Dimorphodon. FunkMonk (talk) 00:25, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]