Let's take a look at the most recent finds and see if you have ever heard of them.

1. 1997 - Cautipteryx (CAW-DIP-TER-IKS)

   This creature was located in the wetlands of China and is about the size of a large turkey. 3 feet tall, this flightless feathered dinosaur had a diet of small fish. Feathers covered its small arms making them appear to be wings and their tail feathers fanned out much like a turkey.

2. 1994 - Giganotosaurus (JIG-A-NOT-OH-SAWR-US)

   This creature was found in Argentina and considered a giant southern lizard. 18 feet high and 49 feet long, its skull was the size of a bathtub and its brain the size and shape of a banana. Walking on two legs, in many ways, resembled T-Rex even though it lived some 30 million years later.

3. 1989 - Leaellynasauraa (LEE-ELL-LIN-AH-SAWR-AH)

   This creature was found in Australia and considered one of the smartest of all dinosaurs. It had a huge brain and large eyes and was only 8 feet long and 18 inches tall. A small lizard type, they were thought to travel in herds, eating moss, ferns and leaves with their tough horned beaks.

4. 1988 - Argentinosaurus (AHY-GEN-TEEN-OH-SAWR-US)

   This creature was located in Argentina was a long necked herbivore that ate flowers, fruit and seeds. 69 feet tall and 130 feet long, Argentinosaurus has been determined to be the biggest animal that ever lived on earth, until the next discovery comes along, that is, resembling the Brachiosaurus.

5. 1983 - Baryonyx (BAR-EE-ON-IKS)

   This creature has been found in two separate areas of the world, England and Spain. Its name meaning "heavy claw" the 31 foot long and 16 feet tall fish therapod is the first meat eating diosaur to be discovered in England and the first fish-eating dinosaur to be discovered anywhere.

6. 1981 - Scutellosaurus (SKU-TEL-OH-SAWR-US)

    was located in Arizona, North America and is a tiny armoured dinosaur, possibly related to the Lesothaurus. No bigger than a dog, 5 foot tall and weighing a mere 22 pounds, Scutelloraurus was a herbivore and spent most of its time grazing. Heavily protected with over 300 armour plates over its skin, predators thought twice about taking a bite out of this little fellow.

7. 1979 - Seismoraurus (SIZE-MOH-SAWR-US)

    has been found in New Mexico, U.S.A. The nickname for this 45 ton herbivore is `earthquake lizard' because it surely shook the earth when walking. Peg-like teeth led scientists to believe that its diet consisted of leaves on trees and grazing on plants and looked a lot like Diplodocus.

8. 1977 - Maiasaura (MY-AH-SAWR-AH)

   This has been found in Montana, North America. A herding animal that had a flat head and a toothless beak, it is believed that this hadrorosaur was a loving mother, thus the name that maiasura means, "good mother lizard. 30 feet long and weighing in at 30 ton, Maiasaura is the Official State Fossil of Montana.

9. 1972 - Gallimimus (GALL-IH-MIME-US)

   Fossils have been found in Asia and the name stands for "chicken mimic' or "rooster mimic". Carnivorous, they preyed on small animals and used their beak to break open eggs of other dinosaurs. 13-20 feet long, Gallimimus had very weak jaws and used their mouths as shovels, an internal filter-feeder straining the food.

10. 1964 - Minmi (MIN-MEE)

    This was first located in Queensland, Australia. Somewhere between an ankylosaur and nodosaur, the Minmi is about the size of a year-old calf with bony plates called scutes. This small armoured herbivore feasted on leaves, fruit and stems.

Who knows if there will ever be an end to the history of our world's past when dinosaurs ruled the world.