Dinosaur suit like monster. They continued to be used in films such as "" (1985) which used animatronic brontosaurus suits with radio-controlled heads, and in television series like "Dinosaurs" (1991), a sitcom with a family of dinosaurs. The film "Jurassic Park" (1993) used dinosaur suits for some of the creatures, such as velociraptors and pterodactyls. In modern-day movies such as "Jurassic World" (2015), this was instead done using CGI. In children's television, Barney, an anthropomorphic purple dinosaur, was used in the show "Barney & Friends" alongside other dinosaurs, becoming widely known in pop culture. Some sports teams have dinosaur mascots represented by
Alan the Dinosaur Alan the Dinosaur Alan the Dinosaur is the name given to an unidentified Sauropodomoph fossil, found in Whitby in 1995, regarded as the oldest sauropod dinosaur found in the United Kingdom. It is now in the Yorkshire Museum. The fossil was discovered in Whitby in 1995 by Alan Gurr whilst on a field trip to the site led by geologist Phil Manning. A chunk of sandstone fell from cliff face and was inspected by the finder, who spotted the fragment of vertebra. As it is not identifiable to species level, it gained the nickname 'Alan' in commemoration of its finder.