Which Terrible Lizards did you mean?
This page is a signpost, not a strategy guide. Four public things wear nearly the same name. If you want door codes, you want the game. If you want Greek, you want the word. If you want interviews about fossils, you want the podcast. If you want a 1990s cartoon with "thunder" in the title, you want the cartoon.
The 2026 game
Terrible Lizards is a single-player horror parkour game by WDR Studios, published by Digital Pajamas and Behaviour Interactive, released 29 Oct 2026 on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. This site's home and wiki cover it. Start there only if the park, the demo, or the bosses are what you typed for.
The phrase
Dinosaur is the terrible lizard. Owen, 1842, Greek deinos and sauros. The etymology page answers that and explains why Stegosaurus is not the same compound. Read that page before you read a boss guide, or you will get a keypad when you wanted a dictionary.
The podcast
Terrible Lizards the show is hosted by paleontologist David Hone and by Iszi Lawrence. The Libsyn listing, as checked for this page, described 12 seasons and a Patreon, and it said the language stays clean enough for kids. Season counts move. I am dating the 12 as a late-2026 reading, not as a promise about next year. The show is not a playthrough of the game.
The cartoon
The Terrible Thunderlizards ran from 20 Nov 1993 to 28 Jul 1997, 36 episodes, on Fox Kids and YTV, according to the encyclopedia entry. General Galapagos is part of that cast of characters. Dee Snider is tied to the theme music in that same entry. TV Tropes has a page; I am sending you to the encyclopedia for the dates because the Trope page was not a clean source when this file was built. It is not set in Dalton's Dinos.

Questions
Is the podcast about the game?
No. The podcast Terrible Lizards is David Hone and Iszi Lawrence talking about paleontology. The Libsyn page describes it as clean enough that kids can listen too. It predates the game's release conversation.
What is The Terrible Thunderlizards?
A 1990s animated segment, 36 episodes, running from 20 Nov 1993 to 28 Jul 1997 on Fox Kids and YTV. General Galapagos is a character. Dee Snider is associated with the theme. It is not the 2026 game.
Where is the word history?
On the etymology page: dinosaur, Richard Owen, 1842, deinos plus sauros.
Sources
- Steam store, the game — checked 2026-11-02
- Podcast on Libsyn — checked 2026-11-02
- Wikipedia: The Terrible Thunderlizards — checked 2026-11-02
- Wikipedia: Dinosaur — checked 2026-11-02
Source counts refer to independent publishers; syndicated copies and separate readings from one publisher count as one source.