Random dinosaur generator

Press Generate for a random dinosaur: a T. rex to draw, a Triceratops for a quiz, a Spinosaurus to spark a story. Ask for one prehistoric giant or a whole herd of ten.

Dinosaurs are a gift for anyone teaching or entertaining kids. Teachers pull a random one as a research prompt: look it up, sketch it, and share three facts with the class. Parents use it to settle "which dinosaur are we today" at playtime, and it makes a fast, fair pick for a classroom game or a museum-visit scavenger list. Writers and game designers reach for one when a creature needs to feel real. Artists use it as a daily drawing challenge, and trivia hosts drop a species on screen and ask the room to name what it ate.

Keep the draw on theme with the type filter. Choose carnivores for the fearsome hunters, or herbivores for the long-necked sauropods and armoured plant-eaters. Pick flying for the pterosaurs, or marine for the sea monsters that patrolled ancient oceans.

One honest note: the flying and marine picks are prehistoric reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs rather than true dinosaurs, but they're the giants people expect to meet here, so they share the pool. Every name is a real genus you can look up, which makes this useful for actual research and not just play.

Every species shows a field-guide illustration, so a class has something to sketch from the moment it lands. Share a link that carries your type filter and count so a group works from the same set.