User blog comment:KniroAndTito3915/LIPPIES 3RD ANNIVERSARY/@comment-24216186-20140706175035/@comment-7270135-20140706201101

Oh no, not a dinosaur character. A lizard actually. The basic idea is that he's a mix of pieces of biolizard DNA and that of a normal Sonic lizard. Kind of like how in Jurassic Park the dinosaurs were revived after being mixed with frog genetics.