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Dino Rađa
Dino Rađa (born 1967, Split) is a Croatian Hall of Fame center, Jugoplastika EuroLeague champion, two-time Olympic silver medalist, and Boston Celtics NBA player 1993–97.
Dino Ranch: Island Explorers
Dino Ranch: Island Explorers is a 52x11' 3D animated preschool spin-off of Dino Ranch, created by Matthew Fernandes, following the Cassidy family and Uncle Jack on Dino Island; it debuted on CBC in November 2025 and Amazon Kids+ in April 2026.
Dino Shafeek
Dino Shafeek (Gholam D. Shafeek, 1930–1984) was a Bangladeshi-born British comedy actor, Char Wallah Muhammed in It Ain't Half Hot Mum (56 episodes) and Ali Nadim in Mind Your Language (29 episodes), active 1967–1983.
Dino Stamatopoulos
Dino Stamatopoulos (Konstantinos Stamatopoulos, born 1964, Norridge, Illinois) is an American comedy writer and actor, Emmy winner for The Ben Stiller Show, creator of Moral Orel and Mary Shelley's Frankenhole, and Starburns on Community.
Dino Surf School
Dino Surf School is a surf spot and surf school location at Pelena South near Weligama, Sri Lanka, with beginner-friendly A-frame waves and surfable conditions year round.
Dino Urbani
Dino Urbani (Dino Renzo Uberto Urban•Urbani, 1882-1958), Italian fencer from Livorno, student of Beppe Nadi; won gold in team épée and team sabre at Antwerp 1920, eliminated in individual épée semifinals.
Dino Verbrugge
Dino Verbrugge is a futures and proprietary trader who co-founded DV Trading in Toronto in 2006 with Jared Vegosen; the firm, now Chicago-headquartered, has over 500 traders and staff.
Dino Water Park
Dino Water Park, better known as Dino Beach, was a seasonal outdoor water park in Minhang District, Shanghai. Opened in 2004, it operated only in summer and suspended operations in 2023.
Dino Zoff
Dino Zoff (born 1942, Mariano del Friuli) is an Italian former goalkeeper and coach; captain of Italy's 1982 World Cup win at 40, Euro 1968 winner, 112 caps, 1,142-minute clean-sheet record, later coached Juventus, Lazio, and Italy.
Dinobuton
Dinobuton (OMS 1056; Acrex, Dessin), CAS 973-21-7, is a dinitrophenol acaricide and fungicide developed in the UK in 1960, an oxidative phosphorylation uncoupler, now banned in the EU and UK.
Dinocap
Dinocap (Karathane) is a dinitrophenol contact fungicide and miticide, a mixture of dinitrooctylphenyl crotonates used since the mid-1950s against powdery mildews; cancelled in the US (2002) and not EU/UK approved, with meptyldinocap as successor.
Dinocyst
A dinocyst, or dinoflagellate cyst, is the thick-walled resting stage of certain dinoflagellates, preserved in sediments for hundreds of millions of years and widely used in oil exploration and paleoceanography.
Dinoflagellate
Dinoflagellates (Dinoflagellata) are unicellular, two-flagellated eukaryotic algae and protists, major marine phytoplankton, coral symbionts (Symbiodiniaceae), and causes of red tides, with a Triassic-to-recent fossil cyst record.
Dinoflagellate bioluminescence
Dinoflagellate bioluminescence is the blue light produced by certain single-celled marine dinoflagellates when disturbed, created in organelles called scintillons and brightest at night; Pyrodinium bahamense makes the famous bioluminescent bays of Jamaica and Puerto Rico.
Dinoflagellate cell biology and ultrastructure
Dinoflagellate cell biology and ultrastructure covers the cell covering, the dinokaryon with permanently condensed, histone-poor chromosomes, closed mitosis, flagella, and extrusive organelles of these marine single-celled eukaryotes.
Dinoflagellate luciferase
Dinoflagellate luciferase (LCF) is the pH-activated enzyme behind dinoflagellate bioluminescence, a three-domain ~135 kDa protein oxidizing a chlorophyll-like tetrapyrrole luciferin to emit ~475 nm blue flashes, also used as a mammalian reporter enzyme.
Dinoflagellate viruses
Dinoflagellate viruses are viruses that infect dinoflagellates, marine and freshwater unicellular eukaryotes. For about two decades only two were cultured, both infecting the shellfish-killing Heterocapsa circularisquama.
Dinogetia
Dinogetia, also Bisericuța-Garvăn, a Roman and Byzantine fortress on a former Danube island near Garvăn, Tulcea County, Romania; rebuilt under Diocletian with 14 towers, burnt by the Kotrigurs in 559, refortified after 971.
Dinomischus
Dinomischus is a genus of stalked, sessile Cambrian filter-feeding animals, type species D. isolatus from the Burgess Shale (Conway Morris, 1977), with a goblet-shaped calyx, bracts, and debated affinities (entoproct-like, stem-ctenophore, or cnidarian).
Dinoprost
Dinoprost is prostaglandin F2α, a naturally occurring prostaglandin that causes luteolysis and stimulates uterine muscle, used in veterinary medicine for estrus synchronization in cattle, horses, and swine.
Dinornis
Dinornis, the giant moa genus of New Zealand, contains two extinct flightless ratite species, D. novaezealandiae and D. robustus, named by Richard Owen in 1843, famous for extreme reversed sexual size dimorphism and extinction by overhunting around 600 years ago.
Dinorwig Power Station
Dinorwig Power Station, also known as Electric Mountain, is a pumped-storage hydroelectric plant hidden inside Elidir Fawr mountain near Llanberis, Wales, opened in 1984 and capable of reaching full power, 1,800 MW, in under a minute.
Dinosaur
Dinosaur (Dinosauria): clade of reptiles coined by Richard Owen in 1842, defined as all descendants of the common ancestor of Triceratops and the house sparrow; includes birds, dominated land for 140+ million years until the 66-million-year-old extinction.
Dinosaur (2000 film)
Dinosaur, also known as Disney's Dinosaur, is a 2000 animated adventure film following Aladar, an iguanodon raised by lemurs, as he joins a herd searching for nesting grounds.
Dinosaur emojis
Dinosaur emojis are Unicode's only two dinosaur characters, 🦕 SAUROPOD (U+1F995) and 🦖 T-REX (U+1F996), added in Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 after the 2016 Jurassic Emoji Proposal.
Dinosaur Game
Dinosaur Game (Chrome Dino, T-Rex Runner): endless runner Easter egg in Google Chrome's offline error page, created by Sebastien Gabriel, Alan Bettes, and Edward Jung, debuted September 2014, playable at chrome://dino.
Dinosaur Jr.
Dinosaur Jr., the Amherst, Massachusetts alternative rock trio of J Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Murph, defined 1980s indie rock with You're Living All Over Me and Bug, reunited in the mid-2000s, and released their 13th album There Near in 2026 on Jagjaguwar.
Dinosaur King (古代王者恐竜キング)
Dinosaur King (古代王者恐竜キング) is Sega's 2005 dinosaur card-battle arcade game, successor to Mushiking, expanded into a 4Kids-dubbed anime, an Upper Deck TCG, and a 2008 Nintendo DS Pokémon-style RPG with over 100 dinosaurs.
Dinosaur King (古代王者恐竜キング) (TV series)
Dinosaur King (古代王者恐竜キング Dキッズ・アドベンチャー) is a Sunrise anime adapted from Sega's 2005 dinosaur card/arcade game; 49 episodes (2007-2008), D-Team vs Alpha Gang, 4Kids English dub premiered on US TV September 8, 2007.
Dinosaur National Monument
Dinosaur National Monument is an NPS unit on the Utah-Colorado border, established 1915 around the Carnegie Quarry and expanded 1938 to 210,000+ acres of Green and Yampa river canyons, site of the 1,500-bone fossil wall and the Echo Park Dam controversy.