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It’s like a giraffe! Brachiosaurus had longer forelimbs than hind limbs so its back sloped down to its hindquarters – rather lik ...
Hadrosaurs were basically the cows of the Cretaceous. They would have been a familiar sight in the forests and swamps of North A ...
What did they eat? One hadrosaur fossil contained the remains of its last meal: bark, pine cones, conifer needles, and branches. ...
Horns and frills Three-horned face Triceratops was one of the largest of all the horned faces, reaching about 10 m (33 ft) in le ...
Protoceratops, which had a head frill but lacked a horn. Styracosaurus, or “spiked lizard”, had a fancy, horned frill. Pentacera ...
The mighty T. rex roamed North America in the last couple of million years that dinosaurs ruled the planet. T. rex Was it a kill ...
A T. re x had tiny serrations on its teeth. Its bite would have torn into a victim’s flesh. means “King of the tyrant lizards”.T ...
Giganotosaurus means “giant southern reptile”, and this dinosaur was big; in fact it may have been larger than T. rex. However, ...
Argentinosaurus Let’s get it! A huge sauropod, Argentinosaurus, lived alongside Giganotosaurus. It’s thought this monster may ha ...
A feathered dinosaur? Some dinosaur fossils have been found with traces of a feather- like covering, and it’s thought that Veloc ...
This skeleton has been mounted to show Deinonychus leaping towards a victim, claws ready. Jump and grab Velociraptor and its rel ...
There may have been no marine dinosaurs, but a frightening variety of toothed giant reptiles ruled the seas while the dinosaurs ...
Anything it could catch, including pterosaurs who flew too close to the water’s surface. Some people think the “monster” in Lock ...
How was it made? Can you name some of the things that fossilize? 206 Age of the dinosaurs Fossils may form when animal or plant ...
Fossils include bones, teeth, footprints, and skin impressions. Plants also fossilize. How was it made? Two million years ago Th ...
How big were the animals that survived the extinction? Age of the dinosaurs Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs died out, ...
No land animal heavier than a large dog survived. What happened? 209 The rock that created the Mexican crater was 10 km (6 miles ...
You may think that reptiles are closely related to dinosaurs, but dinosaurs may have more in common with birds! Living dinosaurs ...
It was small: about the size of a pigeon.^211 Pieces of a puzzle More and more “dino-birds” are being discovered, and each disco ...
212 Science is the search for truth and knowledge. It holds the key to understanding life, the Universe... and almost everything ...
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