🎨 RestorationRestoration: Connor Ashbridge · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Life restorations are artistic reconstructions based on fossil evidence; true coloration and soft-tissue details remain uncertain.
Edmontosaurus
Edmontosaurus regalis (Edmontosaurus · Edmontosaurus)
Known only from fossils. The IUCN Red List assesses only species extant since 1500 CE, so fossil taxa are not assigned a category.
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 An estimated body length of about 13 m (representative value for the genus) is slightly longer than a city bus of about 12 m in length (Comparison).
- 💡 The pine cones and pine needles listed as its food bring to mind the pine trees seen in mountains and parks today (Comparison).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
Edmontosaurus regalis (genus Edmontosaurus) was a large herbivorous dinosaur (a duck-billed dinosaur) that lived during the Late Cretaceous. It walked on two or four legs.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
The guide introduces it as having a horny beak and about 1,000 grinding cheek teeth.
🔍 3. Fossil Record & Paleoecology
The Natural History Museum in London guide notes that it ate tough pine needles, cones, and twigs. The measurements given are representative values for the genus as a whole.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • Fossil taxon — the IUCN Red List assesses only species living or extinct since 1500
- • paleobiodb.org — basicTaxonInfo
- • wikidata.org — Q20717881
- • nhm.ac.uk — edmontosaurus.html
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Ivan Iofrida · CC BY 4.0
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.