Dinosaurs have moved through popular culture in many forms: lost-world novels, stop-motion films, animated series, documentary programmes, video games, board games and illustrated books. Each format builds a different relationship with prehistoric life. A film can make a dinosaur part of a dramatic story; a documentary aims to explain fossils and scientific ideas; a game turns an animal into a character with rules and abilities.
This collection brings together 161 selected works and projects across nine formats. It is an index for browsing, not a ranking or a complete history. Some entries focus directly on dinosaurs, while others include them among wider prehistoric subjects. The year, format, age guidance and topic labels help narrow the list, but an age label is only a starting point for families and does not replace checking a particular edition or release.
Popular portrayals can be enjoyable and still differ from fossil evidence. Creators may combine animals from different periods, invent behaviour or use a dramatic design. When you want to check an animal rather than a fictional depiction, start with a profile in the dinosaur catalogue. The entries below describe the works as works of culture; they do not treat their stories or game mechanics as scientific observations.
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Jurassic World Rebirth
An expedition seeks genetic material from three giant animals in an isolated tropical region.
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
The older campers investigate a conspiracy in a world where dinosaurs live alongside people.
Crayon Shin-chan: Our Dinosaur Diary
Shin-chan meets a small dinosaur against the backdrop of a popular dinosaur theme park.
Gigantosaurus: Dino Sports
Eight short sports events combine into tournaments for one to four players.
Dinoster
Young rangers travel to a parallel world, study dinosaurs and protect them from threats.
Life on Our Planet
The sweeping history of life gives dinosaurs several chapters and connects their rise and decline with mass extinctions.
Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs
Excavations in Wyoming help researchers reconstruct a Late Jurassic ecosystem.
Paleo Pines
A gentle farming adventure centres on friendship with dinosaurs and exploring an island.
Exoprimal
Armoured squads fend off waves of dinosaurs in competitive team missions.
Holotype: Mesozoic North America
Palaeontologists place specialists, collect specimens and publish research on North American Mesozoic life.
Gigantosaurus: Dino Kart
Race through fifteen tracks inspired by the animated series, with assisted controls and local multiplayer.
Dino Ranch: Ride to the Rescue
Ride around a ranch, care for dinosaurs and complete short missions to find missing eggs.
Jurassic World Dominion
People adjust to a world where dinosaurs have spread across the planet and become part of a new crisis.
Dino Powers
A team of heroes uses mechanical dinosaurs and technology to defend a city.
Prehistoric Planet
Filmed like a modern nature series, it depicts Late Cretaceous animals across a range of habitats.
Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough
Excavations at Tanis are paired with a reconstruction of the first hours after the asteroid impact.
Path of Titans
This large online game lets players grow as a dinosaur, complete quests and form groups.
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter
Search for fossil sites, excavate bones, prepare specimens and assemble museum skeletons.
Cubosaurs
A card draft challenges players to assemble dinosaur herds with different scoring patterns.
The Future of Dinosaurs
David Hone explains what researchers know about dinosaurs, which questions remain open and why.
Dino Ranch
The Cassidy family cares for dinosaurs on a ranch and solves gentle everyday adventures.
La Brea
A sinkhole in Los Angeles sends people into an ancient world populated by extinct animals from different periods.
Dino City
Everyday stories turn the household routines of a dinosaur family into short adventures for children.
Dinosaur Biyori
A tyrannosaur, a triceratops and a Stenonychosaurus share an apartment and lead ordinary modern lives.
Jurassic World Evolution 2
The sequel adds marine and flying reptiles, new biomes and scenarios to park management.
Dinosaur Island: Rawr 'n Write
Dice provide resources as players draw a park map and connect attractions with efficient routes.
Happy Little Dinosaurs
Cute dinosaurs face a sequence of absurd disasters and try to outscore their rivals.
Locked in Time
Dean Lomax examines rare fossil evidence for behaviour, injury, feeding and reproduction.
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
Six teenagers are cut off from evacuation and try to survive inside a damaged dinosaur park.
Parkasaurus
This friendly park-management game asks players to build enclosures and care for dinosaurs' needs.
Gigantosaurus: The Game
Characters from the animated series explore a colourful world through easy races and platform challenges.
Tiny Epic Dinosaurs
This compact strategy game asks players to breed dinosaurs, fulfil contracts and expand a ranch.
Gods Love Dinosaurs
Players build food chains and try to create an ecosystem in which dinosaurs can appear and survive.
Fossilis
A three-dimensional board turns fossil excavation and bone collection into a tactile game.
Unmatched: Jurassic Park – InGen vs Raptors
Robert Muldoon uses traps against three fast raptors in an asymmetric duel on a changing battlefield.
Jurassic World Aftermath
Hide from raptors, solve puzzles and move through a research complex without weapons.
Battle at Big Rock
This short film follows an ordinary family through a dangerous encounter with dinosaurs beyond the islands.
Gigantosaurus
Four young dinosaurs explore their Cretaceous world and learn to cooperate.
My Tyrano: Together, Forever
A tyrannosaur and a pteranodon set off together, hiding their vulnerability behind a show of strength.
Amazing Dinoworld
This two-part production uses modern effects to tell stories about predators and parental care.
DinoGenics
Competing companies extract DNA, build enclosures and try to keep dangerous animals under control.
Draftosaurus
Players pass dinosaur figures around the table and place them in suitable zoo habitats.
The Dinosaurs Rediscovered
Michael Benton shows how scanning, biomechanics and statistical methods have changed dinosaur research.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
A rescue on a volcanic island brings dinosaurs into a country estate and the black market.
The Real T. rex with Chris Packham
Researchers build an updated portrait of Tyrannosaurus while discussing its senses, movement and appearance.
Jurassic World Evolution
Park management combines genetics, infrastructure, animal welfare and the risk of escapes.
Mesozooic
Players quickly rearrange a dinosaur park after drafting cards, making it a brisk family puzzle.
Welcome to Dino World
Dice results become enclosures, paths and attractions on a player's personal park sheet.
Jurassic Park: Danger!
One player controls dinosaurs while the others cooperate as characters from the Jurassic Park film.
Dinosaur Tea Party
Ask questions about each guest's appearance to uncover the identity of a dinosaur at the party.
SOS Dino
Work together to guide dinosaur figures away from lava and falling meteorites.
Dino Dunk
Flick dinosaur figures across the board as they compete in a tabletop basketball match.
Jurassic World Alive
A mobile map and DNA collection lead into team battles featuring familiar franchise creatures.
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Steve Brusatte combines the history of the Mesozoic with fieldwork and portraits of the scientists who study it.
Dino Dana
A young researcher observes imagined dinosaurs and turns each episode into a small experiment.
Dino Mecard
Children collect tiny Tyrannosaurus and battle with the help of transforming machines.
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
Researchers examine Chicxulub crater and deposits that preserve evidence of the asteroid impact.
ARK: Survival Evolved
Players gather resources, build a base and tame a fictional mix of prehistoric creatures.
Saurian
The simulation aims to reconstruct the Hell Creek ecosystem using scientific evidence.
Dinosaur Island
Players collect DNA, create dinosaurs and balance the attractions of a theme park against visitor safety.
Dinosaurium
Arranged like a museum, this illustrated volume introduces readers to major dinosaur groups.
Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
David Attenborough follows the study of a giant titanosaur from Patagonia.
T. rex: An Evolutionary Journey
The series traces tyrannosauroids from smaller ancestors to the largest Late Cretaceous forms.
The Great Dinosaur Rush
Palaeontologists collect bones and assemble museum skeletons, sometimes through questionable competition.
Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved
Darren Naish and Paul Barrett explain dinosaur origins, biology and evolution using modern evidence.
Jurassic World
A fully operating dinosaur park creates a hybrid predator to restore a sense of novelty and danger.
The Good Dinosaur
In an alternate world, dinosaurs never disappeared and a young Apatosaurus befriends a human child.
LEGO Jurassic World
Four film stories are retold as a family LEGO adventure with cooperative play.
The Isle
Players live on a server as a dinosaur, grow, search for food and avoid stronger animals.
Raptor
One player protects a mother raptor and her young while another directs a team of scientists.
Apex Theropod
Build a deck around a chosen predator, hunt for food and compete against rivals in its ecosystem.
Dinosaur 13
The documentary follows the discovery of Sue the tyrannosaur and the long legal dispute over the skeleton.
Walking with Dinosaurs 3D
The story of Pachyrhinosaurus Patchi combines computer animation, landscapes and scientific themes.
The Dinosaur Project
Footage from an expedition presents a mysterious living ecosystem and a pseudodocumentary search for dinosaurs.
Primeval: New World
A Canadian team investigates time anomalies and returns dangerous creatures to their own periods.
Dino Time
Three children accidentally travel into the past and join a tyrannosaur family.
Speckles: The Tarbosaurus
A young Tarbosaurus grows up in Cretaceous Asia and faces a formidable rival.
Gon
The tiny but astonishingly strong dinosaur changes the lives of modern animals, all without dialogue.
All Yesterdays
This illustrated book asks artists to imagine plausible lives beyond familiar, narrow dinosaur silhouettes.
Terra Nova
Settlers from an ecologically damaged future begin a new life in an alternate Cretaceous world.
Dino Gangs
The film examines the disputed idea that some predatory dinosaurs hunted in coordinated groups.
Planet Dinosaur
The series introduces 21st-century discoveries and lesser-known dinosaurs from several continents.
Dinosaur Revolution
Stylised stories emphasise animal behaviour and individuality while separating dramatisation from scientific commentary.
Minecraft
Mods and add-ons bring fossil hunting, prehistoric animals and park building into Minecraft.
Dino Dan
A boy sees dinosaurs in everyday life and tests his imagined hypotheses through play.
Omae Umasō da na
A tyrannosaur adopts a young ankylosaur and learns to act as a parent despite his predator instincts.
Last Day of the Dinosaurs
A computer reconstruction follows the asteroid impact through several affected ecosystems.
Dinosaur Train
Buddy the tyrannosaur rides a time train and meets animals from different geological periods.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
The heroes discover an underground tropical world where large dinosaurs have survived.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Travellers find an underground world of giant creatures, including an imaginative screen version of a tyrannosaur.
Primeval
Time anomalies open across Britain, allowing animals from different geological periods to pass through.
Kodai Ōja Kyōryū King
Three children bring dinosaurs to life from cards and foil a team of villains trying to collect ancient stones.
Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006
A new version retells Nobita's friendship with a marine reptile and his journey into the past.
Prehistoric Park
Nigel Marven imagines bringing extinct animals into a wildlife reserve while explaining their biology.
Roblox
Roblox hosts many user-made dinosaur games about growing, surviving and battling.
King Kong
Peter Jackson's remake turns Skull Island into a detailed ecosystem populated by imagined dinosaur relatives.
A Sound of Thunder
A commercial hunt in the Cretaceous disrupts evolution and sends waves of change through the modern world.
The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs
Mechanical models and calculations test popular claims about Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor.
Power Rangers Dino Thunder
A team gains dinosaur-linked powers and protects its city from creatures made by a villain.
Dinosaur Planet
Four stories follow individual dinosaurs and explain the discoveries behind their plots.
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
Players design a park, breed dinosaurs and keep visitors safe.
Dinotopia
This television story revisits life in a shared island society of humans and intelligent dinosaurs.
Dinotopia
This television story revisits life in a shared island society of humans and intelligent dinosaurs.
Jurassic Park III
A rescue party reaches Isla Sorna, where the film's Spinosaurus becomes the principal threat.
When Dinosaurs Roamed America
The film travels across Mesozoic North America, linking its animals with changing landscapes.
Dinosaur
The iguanodon Aladar leads a herd toward a new home after a meteor impact.
DinoZaurs
Spirits of prehistoric animals become robots and protect the life force of Earth.
The Ballad of Big Al
An Allosaurus story is built around the famous MOR 693 skeleton and evidence of its injuries.
Dino Crisis 2
The sequel quickens the pace and moves its characters to a dinosaur-infested region from another time.
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
Large dinosaurs act out familiar family routines in a rhythmic picture-book story about bedtime.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
An expedition is stranded on a plateau where dinosaurs live alongside tribes and imagined civilisations.
Walking with Dinosaurs
Six episodes present the Mesozoic as a wildlife film, using the visual effects of their time.
Dino Crisis
A special-operations team faces dinosaurs inside a sealed research complex while conserving scarce supplies.
Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs
Harry finds a bucket of toy dinosaurs that become his friends, companions and conversation partners.
Trespasser
This ambitious physics simulation strands a woman on an abandoned island inhabited by dinosaurs.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
A second expedition visits an island where dinosaurs roam without fences or keepers.
Extreme Dinosaurs
A team of intelligent dinosaurs opposes raptors who plan to alter the planet's climate.
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
The warrior Turok explores the Lost Land, where dinosaurs share the setting with fantastical enemies.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
A second expedition visits an island where dinosaurs roam without fences or keepers.
Kyōryū Bōkenki Jura Tripper
A group of schoolchildren is transported to a dinosaur world where unusual nations compete for power.
The Lost World
An expedition studies a feral dinosaur population and the unstable ecology of a second island.
Raptor Red
Robert Bakker narrates a year in the life of a female Utahraptor from the animal's point of view.
Tammy and the T-Rex
A wild comedy follows a schoolboy whose brain is transplanted into a mechanical tyrannosaur body.
Dinosaur Roar!
A rhythmic picture book uses dinosaurs and opposites to introduce young readers to contrasting ideas.
Jurassic Park
A park built with cloned dinosaurs loses control, changing how audiences imagine prehistoric animals on screen.
Carnosaur
This dark independent horror film imagines a genetic experiment and dinosaurs appearing in a small American town.
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
Intelligent dinosaurs arrive in modern New York to help fulfil children's wishes.
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
In a post-apocalyptic future, people share the Earth with dinosaurs and resist poachers.
Muka Muka Paradise
A girl finds a baby dinosaur that becomes a noisy pet and her guide to the distant past.
Kyōryū Wakusei
An educational adventure takes its characters into reconstructed Mesozoic ecosystems.
The Adventures of T-Rex
Five tyrannosaur brothers perform on stage and secretly defend their city from criminals.
Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
James Gurney builds an illustrated travel diary for an island where humans and intelligent dinosaurs coexist.
Land of the Lost
A new family enters a lost world and tries to build a life among dinosaurs and imagined tribes.
Dinosaurs
A puppet sitcom turns domestic life and social satire into the story of the Sinclair family of anthropomorphic dinosaurs.
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton uses a cloned-dinosaur park to examine risk, complexity and the limits of human control.
The Dinosauria
A landmark reference work surveys dinosaur anatomy, evolution, classification and diversity.
Dink, the Little Dinosaur
Dink and his friends explore a prehistoric world and help one another avoid danger.
Dino-Riders
People from the future use dinosaurs as allies in a fight against invaders on a prehistoric Earth.
The Land Before Time
Young Littlefoot and his friends search for the Great Valley after a natural disaster.
Denver, the Last Dinosaur
A group of teenagers finds a dinosaur egg, and the friendly Denver learns to live in a modern city.
Dinosaucers
Spacefaring dinosaurs draw human teenagers into a conflict between two alien groups.
Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs
Friends discover an underground world where intelligent dinosaur descendants have built their own civilisation.
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
An expedition in Central Africa discovers a living sauropod family and tries to protect its young member.
Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
Nobita raises a Futabasaurus and tries to return it to the Cretaceous.
Daikyōryū Jidai
This television special follows children transported into the Mesozoic through a mysterious encounter.
Kyōryū Daisensō Izenborg
Cybernetic heroes face intelligent dinosaurs in a hybrid of animation and model effects.
Kyōryū Tankentai Born Free
A rescue team saves dinosaurs appearing in modern times in a mix of animation, models and live action.
The Land That Time Forgot
A submarine crew reaches an isolated island of primitive tribes and prehistoric predators.
Land of the Lost
A family falls into a pocket universe of dinosaurs, ancient ruins and intelligent reptilian beings.
Genshi Shōnen Ryū
A young boy searches for his family in a fictional prehistoric age where humans live alongside dinosaurs.
The Valley of Gwangi
Cowboys discover a lost valley and try to turn a captured Allosaurus into a circus attraction.
One Million Years B.C.
This prehistoric fantasy became famous for Ray Harryhausen's effects, although its humans and dinosaurs ignore scientific chronology.
Danny and the Dinosaur
A museum dinosaur comes to life and spends an extraordinary day exploring a city with Danny.
The Enormous Egg
A chicken egg hatches into a Triceratops, and a boy must find a safe home for the growing animal.
A Sound of Thunder
Ray Bradbury turns a time-travelling tyrannosaur hunt into a warning about fragile chains of cause and effect.
Fantasia
The Rite of Spring segment traces Earth's history and the dramatic extinction of dinosaurs.
King Kong
An expedition reaches an island where prehistoric animals share the landscape with Kong, brought to life through stop-motion animation.
The Lost World
Conan Doyle's silent adventure adaptation was one of the earliest major screen encounters with animated dinosaurs.
The Land That Time Forgot
Edgar Rice Burroughs imagines an isolated continent where evolution has followed a strange and dangerous course.
Gertie the Dinosaur
Winsor McCay addresses the drawn Gertie on screen in an early example of character animation.
The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle sends Professor Challenger's expedition to a plateau where prehistoric animals have survived.
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The collection contains 161 selected works and projects across nine formats. It is a browsing guide rather than a complete census of dinosaur-related culture.
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