What dinosaur is Yoshi based on?

The inspiration for Yoshi can be traced back further, to the green dragon Tamagon in the 1984 video game Devil World: also designed by Miyamoto, both are green lizards that hatch from eggs and can eat enemies with their large mouth, and also emit the same noise when they hatch.
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Is Yoshi a velociraptor?

Yoshi is the Velociraptor-type dinosaur "royal pet" of President Koopa in the 1993 Super Mario Bros. film. Unlike most other inhabitants of Dinohattan, he retained his original reptilian form.
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Is Yoshi a dinosaur or a Yoshi?

Yoshi is not a dinosaur, but simply a Yoshi! When not encountering enemies, Yoshi loves to eat fruit. Yoshi has a long tongue that can be used to eat almost anything! Yoshi can also beat enemies by producing eggs and throwing them in their direction.
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What kind of lizard is Yoshi?

Yoshi's Bow-fingered Gecko - Cyrtodactylus yoshii. Yoshi's Bow-fingered Gecko is a large species of Cyrtodactylus which inhabits moist, lowland primary rainforest. The species was first described in 1990. Its thickset body measures up to 10 cm snout-to-vent, and its slender tail reaches around 12 cm.
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Is Yoshi a lizard or dragon?

Described as either a dinosaur or dragon, Yoshis are four-limbed bipedal animals with a tail which have a shell-like saddle and a chameleon-like tongue. They have four digits on each hand and feet which resemble boots (which they are born with).
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Is Yoshi a Tyrannosaurus rex?

Yoshi, once romanized as Yossy, is a fictional anthropomorphic dinosaur (maybe either T-rex or Allosaurus) who appears in video games published by Nintendo.
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What does the T stand for in Yoshis name?

T stands for "That's not my Yoshi!"
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Is Yoshi asexual?

Is Yoshi asexual? The in-game Japanese text of Yoshi's Trophy in Super Smash Bros. Melee states that Yoshis reproduce asexually, meaning that they reproduce without a mate and are neither male nor female.
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Is Yoshi a turtle or tortoise?

Yoshi is a loggerhead turtle who was released off the Cape Town coast in 2017.
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What is Yoshis real name?

Yoshisaur Munchakoopas, and other recently revealed Nintendo facts.
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Is Yoshi Marios dad?

He is the adopted son of Yoshi and the fraternal twin brother of Luigi.
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Who is Yoshis dad?

Papa Yoshi is the king of Domino, He works with a computer and Baker's. He is very hardworking, but a bit clumsy, pompous and serious. Most people consider King Yoshi to be absent-minded at times.
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What is the blue Yoshi called?

Boshi is a lone Blue Yoshi and the rival of Yoshi. Like many other Yoshis, he can speak only the Yoshi language, having a deeper voice than most others.
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Why is Yoshi black?

In Mario Power Tennis, Yoshi can change colors every time he performs a Rolling Egg Return, provided the player has completed the Flower Cup with any character. One of the colors that Yoshi can turn into is black.
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What is the purple Yoshi called?

The best known Purple Yoshi is Schweddyoshi, a character made by DJ and Cooper Columbus for Twitter.
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What animal is Goomba?

Goombas /ˈɡuːmbə/, known in Japan as Kuribō, are a fictional mushroom-like species from Nintendo's Mario franchise. They first appeared in the NES video game Super Mario Bros. as the first enemy players encounter.
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Why is Yoshi not allowed in the castle?

It is revealed Yoshi is addicted to smoking. It is shown why Yoshi is never allowed to go inside the castle.
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Is Purple Yoshi a girl?

Purple Yoshi is the one of the only female yoshis in VAF.
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What is Black Yoshi's real name?

Black Yoshi (currently known as Ya Boy Duggie, or simply Duggie) is a character in the SML series.
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Why does Yoshi lay eggs?

In Egg, a Light Blue Yoshi lays an egg if he eats a baked Yoshi-shaped Yoshi Cookie after eating enough baked cookies to fill up one of the cookie meters. He can lay up to two eggs. One egg eventually hatches into a Baby Yoshi if the Light Blue Yoshi continues eating cookies without missing.
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Why is Yoshi Blue?

In Mario Power Tennis, Yoshi can change colors every time he performs a Rolling Egg Return, provided the player has completed the Flower Cup with any character. One of the colors that Yoshi can turn into is blue.
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Why is Yoshi purple?

In Super Mario Sunshine, when Yoshi eats a certain fruit (Durians or Chilli Peppers), it will turn purple.
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What is pink Yoshis power?

Yoshi can turn into a Pink Yoshi in Super Mario Sunshine. If he eats a Coconut or a Banana, his pigment turns pink in color. While pink, Yoshi's juice can turn enemies into platforms that move vertically upwards.
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What is Luigi's full name?

The first notable use of "Luigi Mario" was in the 1993 live-action film adaptation. In September 2015, at the Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary festival, Miyamoto stated that Mario's full name was Mario Mario. As a result, this indirectly confirms Luigi's full name to be Luigi Mario.
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