Dinosaurs! A timeless obsession of toddlers, scientists and everyone in between, these terrible lizards have been a mainstay of movies since the dawn of cinema. After all, what better test of movie magic than convincingly bringing long-extinct animals back to life? With Jurassic World Rebirth proving yet again that the Jurassic Park turned World franchise is alive and well, we figured it was a good enough time to revisit some of the best dinosaur movies ever made, from the terrifying special effects showcases like Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Jurassic World and the various sequels like Fallen Kingdom and Dominion to the animated features aimed at younger kids like The Land Before Time, Disney’s Dinosaur, Pixar’s The GOOD Dinosaur, and a whole bunch of older classics that might seem prehistoric to modern audiences, but which are still fascinating to watch for their effects, like One Million Years B.C. and The Valley of Gwangi, showcasing the early stop-motion work of the legendary Ray Harryhausen, or the work of his mentor Willis O’Brien – whose awesome dinosaur fights in the original 1933 King Kong, which inspire Peter Jackson to pursue filmmaking, found WETA and mo-cap Andy Serkis beating up some large reptilian carnivores in his own the better part of a century later. There aren’t as many dinosaur movies as there should be, and a lot of them aren’t as good as we’d like them to be, but they all have dinosaurs in them and that’s pretty cool!