Knowledge as a journey
Rotate the Earth, travel through time and discover species.
About · vision and roadmapThe past,
The past,
helping to
protect the future.
DinoClade brings the history of life beyond the pages of an encyclopaedia — turning fascination with a lost world into care for the animals we can still protect.
Why DinoClade
Beyond an encyclopaedia.
Most websites answer one question: ‘What kind of dinosaur was it?’. DinoClade goes further: where it lived, what its world was like, which animals shared its environment and where it belongs in the history of life. Knowledge is something to explore, not just read.
Science for everyone
Clear language, sources and honest explanations of uncertainty.
The past, for life
Fascination with ancient animals inspires care for living ones.
The world we’re building.
The globe reveals the world; the catalogue introduces its inhabitants. A future Living World will let you observe them, while collections are intended to help fund the project and nature conservation.
World atlas
A palaeoglobe connecting time, geography, environments and the fossil record.
liveSpecies catalogue
Profiles across the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. The community helps choose what comes next.
growingLiving World
A future simulation of individual animals feeding, migrating, resting and living.
plannedCollections
Species-inspired objects connected to their digital stories.
prototypeConservation
Transparent support for organisations protecting wildlife and habitats.
goalRoadmap
Strong foundations first.
We are not building everything at once. Each stage needs to work and receive real feedback before we move on.
Identity and palaeoglobe
A public website, a rotating Earth, a timeline and the first records.
Catalogue and community
Species profiles, voting and a direction shaped together.
Data quality
Reviewing palaeocoordinates, unifying the database and adding illustrations and sources.
The first living ecosystem
One carefully developed location: a 2D map and event log first, followed by a diorama.
Real-world impact
A conservation partner and public reporting of the support provided.
Looking ahead
A world that lives even when you’re not watching.
You will be able to observe individual animals travelling, resting, finding food and responding to their environment. Not an arcade game, but a digital wildlife camera into prehistory. Behaviours will be labelled as supported by evidence, plausible or hypothetical.
THE DINOCLADE MISSION · A GOAL IN DEVELOPMENT
Helping the last living dinosaurs.
Birds are not separate from dinosaurs. They are a living branch of theropods. The mass extinction around 66 million years ago wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs, but the lineage leading to modern birds survived.
Evolution is a branching tree, not a tyrannosaur turning into a sparrow. The goshawk on our homepage is a reminder of that continuity, not a claim that it descended from a particular non-avian dinosaur in the atlas.
DinoClade remains, first and foremost, an atlas of prehistory and an educational project. Bird conservation is a natural continuation of that story: exploring the past and protecting the life that endures.
As the project grows, we aim to allocate part of the funds from selected products, collections and activities to protecting birds and their natural habitats, primarily in Poland. This is a plan, not an active funding programme. No contribution share has been set and no partners are being announced yet.
Scientific background: American Museum of Natural History — birds as dinosaurs.
You’re not watching a finished product.
You’re helping to build it.
Vote for species, report mistakes, suggest features and share the project. We will make the biggest decisions openly, together with the community.