This Nanuqsaurus hoglundi wishes you a Cretaceous Christmas!

Nanuqsaurus was a smaller cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex that lived in northern Alaska about 70 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period. Back then, Alaska and other polar regions would have been covered in temperate rainforests like those of the Pacific Northwest or New Zealand today, as it would have been too warm for permanent ice caps. However, it still might have snowed there during the winter, so I felt Nanuqsaurus would suit Christmas’s whole winter theme better than most other dinosaurs.

It’s funny, by the way, how we associate Christmas with snow and ice despite the holiday coming about to celebrate the birth of some Palestinian Jewish dude in a hot and dry area of the world. But that’s probably what would happen if you had an originally Middle Eastern religion spreading into the temperate Northern Hemisphere.