Planet Dinosaur Radio Times Poster
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A decade of discovery has unearthed a new world of dinosaurs. These prehistoric beasts are bigger, badder and more bizarre than any you’ve seen before. Meet the monsters from Planet 1 Predator X 2 Microraptor 3 Argentinosaurus Dinosaur on BBC One. Lived: Late Jurassic Facts: Lived: Early Cretaceous Facts: Lived: Late Cretaceous Facts: – Bite four times stronger – Lived and hunted in the – Biggest dinosaur known Weight: 45 tonnes Wingspan: 90 centimetres Weight: 75 tonnes than T.rex trees to walk the Earth Length: Length: Length: 15 metres – Most powerful marine 80 centimetres – Feathered front and back 35 metres – A newly hatched baby Region: Europe reptile ever found Region: East Asia legs used to glide Region: South America weighed just 5kg 542–251 million years ago – The Palaeozoic era – Estimated to move up – Long claws on fi rst toe, – Fully grown in 40 years, at Life forms including reptiles and sea creatures to 5 metres per second similar to Velociraptor peak growing 40kg a day lived in a climate that was hot in the tropics but with polar ice caps like today. Mesozoic era Cenozoic era Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Palaeogene, Neogene and Quaternary Dry and hot with deserts over large Warm, humid and wet with much Warm with high sea levels and hardly any ice at the poles. Began with a mass extinction wiping out the parts of the planet. First dinosaurs of the land covered in forest and ferns. Life fl ourished and fl owering plants appeared. dinosaurs and many animals before life began to thrive again. and mammals appeared. 1 2 3/4 5 6 Early Middle Late Early Middle Late Early Late 250 million years ago 200 150 100 50 million years ago Today Key: = Mass extinction event 2.5 million years ago – The earliest human ancestors appeared. Homo sapiens did not walk the Earth until 200,000 BC. Dino fact Dinosaurs belonged to a group of animals called reptiles. Dinosaurs laid eggs like reptiles do today. For details about the BBC One TV series 4 Spinosaurus 5 Daspletosaurus 6 Hatzegopteryx and Planet Dinosaur Tour visit: Lived: Late Cretaceous Facts: Lived: Late Cretaceous Facts: Lived: Late Cretaceous Facts: – Thought to be the biggest – Believed to have hunted – Largest fl ying animal bbc.co.uk/dinosaur Weight: 11 tonnes Weight: 2.5 tonnes Wingspan: 10 metres land predator ever in gangs ever found Length: Length: Height: 5 metres 17 metres – Large claws to catch fi sh 9 metres – Part of the Tyrannosaur – Stood as a tall as a giraffe Region: North Africa in swamps and rivers Region: North America family, but lived 10 million Region: Europe – Hunted on the ground – Pressure sensors on its years before T.rex walking on all fours snout, like a crocodile, – Great sense of smell to to hunt water prey help hunt prey © BBC 2011.