Dinoz

Dinoz is the planet of dinosaurs. Its jungles, plains and seas are home to the very species that once roamed prehistoric Earth — as if time had never passed there. No people has ever built a city on Dinoz: the dinosaurs reign alone.

The great carnivores

• The Tyrannosaurus rex, about 12 metres long, with the most powerful jaws on the planet.
• The Spinosaurus, even longer than the tyrannosaur, with its great sail on its back; it also hunts in the water.
• The Allosaurus, fearsome hunter of the plains.
• The Carnotaurus, recognisable by the two small horns above its eyes.
• The Dilophosaurus, with its double crest.
• The Velociraptor, small, fast and feathered, hunting in packs.
• The Deinonychus, the velociraptor’s larger cousin, with its terrible sickle claw.

The giant herbivores

• The Diplodocus, nearly 27 metres from snout to tail tip.
• The Brachiosaurus, its long neck raised to graze the treetops.
• The Argentinosaurus, one of the largest land animals that ever lived.
• The Triceratops, with its three horns and great frill.
• The Stegosaurus, with its back plates and spiked tail.
• The Ankylosaurus, armoured like a tank, with a club at the end of its tail.
• The Parasaurolophus, whose hollow crest resounds like a trumpet.
• The Iguanodon, with its spiked thumbs.
• The Pachycephalosaurus, its skull thick as a helmet.
• The Gallimimus, a swift runner much like a great ostrich.

The sky and the seas

Above and around the lands of Dinoz also live the great reptiles that kept the dinosaurs company — without being, strictly speaking, dinosaurs themselves:

• The Pteranodon, gliding along the coasts on its great membranous wings.
• The Quetzalcoatlus, giant of the sky, as large as a small aeroplane.
• The Mosasaurus, colossal hunter of the seas.
• The Plesiosaurus, with its long serpentine neck, gliding through calm waters.

On Dinoz, every valley echoes with immense footsteps: prehistory is not a memory there — it is the present.