The Dinosaur Fan is a virtual extinct life pictorial encyclopedia and non-sports collectibles digest. The purpose of this website is to provide images and summary information about extinct life in a fun and interesting fashion. At its highest level, this site about four things:
- Extinct Life: providing images, photos of collectibles, and summary information about extinct life forms so that anyone of any age can see what these extinct creatures may have looked like. This section of The Dinosaur Fan serves as a virtual roll call of extinct life ranging from microscopic critters to the legionary dinosaurs.
| As of 10/18/2020, The Dinosaur Fan encompasses 74,516 genera with 161,928 related species. |
- Collecting: providing photos, checklists, and summary information about a variety of ephemera (i.e., paper items) which include extinct life. This section of The Dinosaur Fan serves as a virtual digest for anyone curious about collectibles relating to extinct life.
| As of 10/18/2020, The Dinosaur Fan encompasses 2,746 sets which include 110,032 individual items such as cards, stickers, POGS, and albums. |
- Fun: I created this website as way to share my passion for extinct life and collecting. I enjoy the trials of the database work, the challenges of building the webpages, and most of all the perpetual hunt to find previously omitted life forms, life form images, and/or collectibles. I hope you have as much fun browsing The Dinosaur Fan and I do maintaining it.
- Baseball: providing images, photos of collectibles, and summary information pertaining to the members of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. This section of The Dinosaur Fan is, of course, totally irrelevant to the rest of the site. It’s a guilty pleasure for an old man whose love of baseball and baseball card collecting never really became extinct.
| As of 10/18/2020, The Dinosaur Fan includes pictures of 333 of the 333 members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame along with images of 188 baseball cards and related ephemera. |
| As of 10/18/2020, The Dinosaur Fan includes 6 images (pictures, baseball cards, and related ephemera) of 4 players whose MLB career may warrant membership into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. |
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