Query academically referenced paleodata within your LLM

What it is

A reference book you hand to your AI

An MCP server is like a reference book you give to your AI assistant. Ask a question, and it can answer from what it already knows, or look it up in the book.

Omnisaura is that book for palaeontology: a growing database of current dinosaur data, drawn from citable scientific sources, that your assistant can read and cite.

Why trust it

Answers you can check, not just read

Beyond what your AI was trained onAn AI model only knows what was in its training data, and rarely says where a fact came from. Omnisaura gives it current, sourced reference data to answer from.
Disagreements shown, not hiddenWhen sources disagree, the main answer is given and the alternatives are kept and flagged.
Human-edited, with a paper trailA person rules on genuine conflicts between sources, and every ruling has a recorded reason.
Credits built inEvery answer carries the source and licence it relies on, so attribution is never lost.

See it in action

A fact, with its receipt

An illustrative exchange. Your assistant decides when to look something up.

You

When did Tyrannosaurus rex live, and who named it?

Assistant calls Omnisaura

get_genus({ "name": "Tyrannosaurus" })

Assistant

Tyrannosaurus rex lived at the very end of the Cretaceous, in the Maastrichtian age, roughly 68 to 66 million years ago. It was named by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1905.

Osborn, H. F. (1905). Tyrannosaurus and other Cretaceous carnivorous dinosaurs. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21: 259–265.Age range: Omnisaura synthesis from fossil occurrence records · Sources and licences listed with the answer

Confidence and open questions: coming soon

Sources

Built on open science

Paleobiology Database (PBDB)Fossil occurrences, taxonomy and published references
Natural History Museum, LondonCatalogued specimens from its collections
WikidataStructured identifiers and cross-references
Wikimedia CommonsOpenly licensed images, credited individually

Data is used under each source's licence, including CC BY 4.0 and CC0. Content without a usable licence is excluded.

Coverage

Where we are today

47genera live now

130,000+sourced facts

Every genus is checked by a human editor before release. More follow as each one passes review.

Coming soon

More ways to explore

Public reference website
Open dataset