{"id":255718,"date":"2022-08-12T12:04:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T17:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/?post_type=topics&#038;p=255718"},"modified":"2022-08-12T12:04:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T17:04:14","slug":"games-about-dinosaurs","status":"publish","type":"topics","link":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/games-about-dinosaurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Games About Dinosaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About 240-ish million years ago, the Earth saw the first of a new type of terrestrial vertebrate. Some with wings, some roaming on two legs, other on four, these creatures built nests to lay their eggs. They also adapted to their environment as needed: some grew long, razor-sharp teeth, others developed shielding armor, some ate vegetation, others ate meat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These creatures, dinosaurs, as they were named by Sir Richard Owen in 1841 (meaning \u201cTerrible Lizard\u201d) existed on every continent. They truly ruled the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Humans have been fascinated with dinosaurs since the first fossil was discovered\u2014the Chinese first thought they were the bones of dragons. The modern day fixation with dinosaurs has been sparked by Michael Critchton\u2019s 1990 novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jurassic Park<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the subsequent CGI-fest film franchise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can see the popularity of that franchise reflected in some of the games on this list.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They once ruled the world, now they can rule your gaming table. Check out our list of Dinosaur games!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":255824,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"coauthors":[2466],"class_list":["post-255718","topics","type-topics","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Games About Dinosaurs &#8212; Meeple Mountain<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/games-about-dinosaurs\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/games-about-dinosaurs\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Board Game Topics\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Games About Dinosaurs\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Games About Dinosaurs &#8212; Meeple Mountain","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/games-about-dinosaurs\/","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/games-about-dinosaurs\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Board Game Topics","item":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/topics\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Games About Dinosaurs"}]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/255718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topics"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/255718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255718"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meeplemountain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=255718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}