PaleoDex - Fossils & Dinosaurs

🦴 PaleoDex — the real fossil record, in your pocket. Every creature in PaleoDex actually lived. No invented species, no made-up stats, no cartoon dinosaurs: 🦕 over 74,000 real prehistoric genera drawn from open scientific databases, backed by roughly 1.8 million genuine fossil occurrence records from 212 countries and territories. If a fact isn't sourced, we leave it blank rather than guess. 🗺️ EXPLORE A LIVE MAP OF REAL DIG SITES RADAR plots authentic fossil localities on a dark tactical world map. 📍 Turn on location to see the genuine finds nearest you with distance and bearing, or pan anywhere on Earth and scan that region. Dense sites cluster into one pin and expand as you zoom. Location is entirely optional — the whole world is explorable without it. 📋 READ PROPER FIELD DOSSIERS Every genus opens into a sourced dossier: a real illustration or photograph where one exists (never a blank — a clean category silhouette stands in), a live 🧬 Scientific Classification pulled from the Open Tree of Life, geological period and age, where it has been found, the rock it's preserved in, and how it lived — movement, habitat, diet and reproduction, inferred from fossil ecology data and labelled as such. Where the record allows, you also get verbatim encyclopedia sections on description, feeding, locomotion, behaviour and discovery. 📚 Over 22,000 genera carry written profiles; more than 12,500 have a quick fact. ⏳ TRAVEL 540 MILLION YEARS Continental Drift animates Earth's real paleogeography from today back to the Cambrian. 🌍 Drag the time slider and watch the continents reassemble, with the emblematic creatures of each period plotted where they actually lived. Reconstructions older than about 200 million years are honestly marked approximate. ⛏️ DIG IN FOSSIL RUN Sweep a handheld detector across four biomes modelled on real formations — 🏜️ Badlands (Hell Creek), ❄️ Ice Age Plains (Pleistocene tundra), 🌊 Inland Sea (Western Interior Seaway) and 🌿 Coal Forest (Carboniferous swamp). The signal warms as you close in, then a timing-ring excavation decides your specimen's condition, from Fragmented to a flawless ✨ Perfect. Every fossil you dig up is a real, documented species. 🏛️ BUILD A MUSEUM, CLIMB THE RANKS Collected specimens fill category halls in your personal Museum. 💎 Earn Fragments to upgrade your field kit, chase Perfect condition, and 🏆 climb an eight-tier Collector Rank from Site Rookie to Paleontologist. Collect a specimen in person at a genuine dig site and it earns prestige ⭐ field status. An optional, anonymous leaderboard ranks skill across every biome. 📡 STAY CURRENT A built-in feed streams real paleontology news from major science outlets, in English and Spanish. ✅ BUILT HONESTLY 🌐 Fully bilingual English and Spanish 📴 Works offline — your collection lives on your device ☁️ Optional Google sign-in backs up your progress and restores it on a new phone 🔔 Optional daily fossil fact 🗑️ Delete all of your data from inside the app, any time 🔬 Data from the Paleobiology Database, GBIF, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, the Open Tree of Life and PhyloPic. PaleoDex is free to play. Optional purchases add extra daily dig charges — all gear and progression are always earned, never bought. 🎯