Different type of dinosaurs

• Dinosaurs lived millions and millions of years ago. The first ones appeared about 230 million years ago, and the last ones we know died out over 65 million years ago. Compared to this human history is just a hiccup-we have only been around for the last 2 million years.
• Brachiosaurus was gigantic. If it were alive today, it would be able to peer over the top of a four-storey block of flats!
• Compsognathus was the smallest dinosaur. It was not bigger than a chicken. It ran about on two skinny legs, hunting for small animals like lizards to eat.
• The biggest dinosaur egg found so far belonged to a long-necked dinosaur called hyselosaurus. But it is only five times as big as a chicken’s egg.
• Torosaurus had the largest head of any land animals that has ever lived. With the neck frill, its head was as long as a modern ca!
• The plates on stegosaurus’s back may have worked like solar panels, soaking up the sun’s heat and helping to keep the dinosaur warm.
• Although Diplodocus was one of the longest dinosaurs, its head was tiny – not much bigger than a horse’s head.
• Elasmosaurus had a long snake –like neck, similar to Diplodocus. It probably swam holding its neck and tiny head out of water, dropping them down suddenly to catch possible fish.
• Ichthyosaurus looked quite like a modern dolphin. It had very sharp eyes for spotting fish to eat, and it could swim very fast to catch them.
• The first skeleton of an ancient replite ever found was that of Ichthyosaurs. Mary and Joseph Anming were 12 and 16 years old in 1810, when they discovered it at the foot of coastal cliff in Dorset, Southern England.

• Written by madugundu krishna.
• In category General.
• 15 years ago.

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