Some vocabulary for the topic of dinosaurs. Dinosaur names are made up of Greek words. Dinosaurs did not fly but there
were flying reptiles called pterosaurs.
Dinosaurs are Dinosaurs were Dinosaurs evolved from other creatures. extinct. land creatures.
Some were Some were shorter They had straight than men are; some were huge. legs like mammals, carnivores. not like lizards now.
Some were Some were Dinosaur means
herbivores. omnivores. 'terrible lizard'.
We know about A paleontologist
They lived millions of years ago. them from fossil finds. studies dinosaurs.
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There were some
Diplodocus was Apatosaurus was huge herbivores one of these. another. that usually walked It lived in what is It lived in the USA. on four legs. now the USA.
There were some
Triceratops was Styracosaurus medium -sized one of these. was another. herbivores with horns It lived in the USA. It lived in that walked on four N. America. legs. There were medium- Some medium sized sized herbivores with herbivores usually Stegosaurus was walked on two legs like the iguanodon. four legs, protection one of these. It lived in the USA. It lived in England (and other places). and spikes. There were some
Tyrannosaurus Spinosaurus was very big carnivores was one of these. another. that walked on two It lived in It lived in N. Africa. legs. N. America.
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Some small quick Velociraptor cut other dinosaurs with its very long Velociraptor was carnivores walked one of these. on two legs. It lived in Mongolia. toe claw.
Other dinosaurs shaped You can visit the Or look at their website for lots of like ostriches were Natural History Museum information and in London to see things pictures. about dinosaurs. herbivores or omnivores.
Here is an A-Z of dinosaurs. apatosaurus fukuiraptor You could look some up and try and draw them. Or colour these: brachiosaurus gallimimus www.first-school.ws/ theme/animals/ cp_dinosarus_alphabet.htm corythosaurus hylaeosaurus (The first picture of the apatosaurus shows it in water. Scientists now think it did not do this. A few names in deinonychus iguanodon their list are not shown elsewhere - but most are and the pics are nice.) edmontosaurus jaxartosaurus kentrosaurus pachycephalosaurus urbacodon leptoceratops quaesitosaurus velociraptor massospondylus riojasaurus wuerhosaurus (no X-dinosaur) nodosaurus stegosaurus yunnanosaurus ornithomimus triceratops zephyrosaurus
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