Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are primeval reptilian beasts found in remote regions of Exandria.

Description
Dinosaurs encompass a wide range of different species of reptilian animals. Different species are carnivorous and herbivorous, and range in size from tiny to gargantuan. Some dinosaurs have feathers covering their bodies.

Known species
The following dinosaurs have appeared in Critical Role:
 * Deinonychus
 * Pterodactyl
 * Triceratops
 * Tyrannosaurus rex

Background
Dinosaurs are among the earliest beasts known to have lived on Exandria, coexisting with the primordial titans during the time of the Founding. In the Post-Divergence era, dinosaurs had been largely wiped out in the intervening eras. Living dinosaurs are extremely rare, to the point that their existence is believed to only be a myth.

Some dinosaurs are rumored to still live in remote regions of the world, such as in the Shattered Teeth. It is unknown if dinosaurs lived there when the islands were the continent of Domunas before its sundering in the Calamity.

Campaign 1: Vox Machina
Scanlan Shorthalt, a bard and member of the legendary adventuring group Vox Machina, knew of dinosaurs through stories and books. Scanlan would occasionally transform into dinosaurs using Polymorph during Vox Machina's adventures, such as turning into a pterodactyl while on a mission in the Underdark, or rampaging through the mansion of Goran Vedmire as a triceratops during the Whitestone rebellion.

Campaign 2: The Mighty Nein
Similar to Scanlan, Beauregard Lionett knew about dinosaurs through study at the Cobalt Soul. The Mighty Nein encountered a number of dinosaurs on the island of Rumblecusp in the Swavain Islands of the Lucidian Ocean, due to the island's nature of pulling creatures and locations from across Exandria and the Planes of Existence. The people of Vo Village hunted dinosaurs for food, such as a deinonychus, and the Nein encountered two Tyrannosaurus rexes in their adventure there, one of which was albino.

Trivia

 * The cetus is a beast that resembles a plesiosaurus with six fins, but it is unknown if it is considered a dinosaur.
 * Some creatures considered dinosaurs by Dungeons & Dragons, such as pterodactyls and plesiosaurs, are not actually dinosaurs in real life, and are different types of extinct reptiles unrelated to dinosaurs.