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This dinosaur lived during the Cretaceous period around 83.5 million years ago. Nothing sparks the imagination like the giant, lizard-like creatures that once actually roamed our Earth. Rhino Iguana by Faris Algosaibi is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Animals That Look Like Dinosaurs Dinosaurs are immensely popular with both children and adults alike.

We will enjoy sharing the discovery on Twitter and a blog, but that digital dialogue will never quite match the excitement I’ve felt when I’ve tugged on a fellow naturalist’s sleeve during real field excursions, opened a matchbox and revealed the beetles I’ve found. The Styracosaurus is a dinosaur with many horns atop its head, and also one on its nose like a rhinoceros. The rhino lizard is one of many modern-day animals that resemble dinosaurs. We watched it take lumbering steps across our kitchen table like some prehistoric monster, albeit no larger than my thumbnail, then released it into the log pile in the garden to find the female. The 72-million-year-old rhino-sized creature Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna was a four- to five-ton plant-eater belonging to a group called horned dinosaurs. I brought it home and removed the sticky threads with tweezers, revealing its spectacular curved “rhino” horn tipped with a brush of golden hairs and mounted on a head armoured like that of a Triceratops dinosaur. We started looking for a male and soon found one, although at the time we had no idea what it was because it had been crawling under the peeling bark of a tree and its head was shrouded in spiders’ webs it was struggling to remove. The beetle was a female, without the impressive head appendage that gives the species its common name.

Within a few days Darren Mann, a coleopterist at Oxford University Museum of Natural History, confirmed that we had found a rhinoceros beetle, Sinodendron cylindricum. Recently my wife found an unfamiliar black beetle on the log pile in our garden, so I uploaded a photograph to iSpot, the excellent Open University website where volunteer experts help other naturalists to put names to their discoveries. Like other duckbills, which are more formally called hadrosaurs, Hypacrosaurus grew to a length of about 30 feet and habitually moved around on all four limbs. That’s probably because it’s missing a very distinctive feature: the. It has never been easier for anyone with the slightest interest in wildlife to find help identifying discoveries then sharing them with others. Paraceratherium Image: Neil Kelley, Flickr At first glance, this towering behemoth doesn't even look much like a rhino.