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- Science Corner. // Highlights;Sep2004, Vol. 59 Issue 9, p8
Addresses questions related to science, including the kinds of meat-eating dinosaurs.
- Dinosaur Sudoku. Christensen, Evelyn B. // Fun For Kidz;May/Jun2014, Vol. 13 Issue 3, p8
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- New Dino Dug Up. // Scholastic News -- Edition 3;9/17/2007, Vol. 64 Issue 3, p3
The article offers information on a dinosaur species called the Gigantoraptor.
- Age of Dinosaurs. Parker, Steve // Dinosaurs (1-59084-464-5);2003, p6
The Age of Dinosaurs corresponds to the time that geologists call the Mesozoic Era, from about 248-65 million years ago. The Mesozoic Era is divided into three shorter time spans, the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. In the Triassic Period, 248-208 million years ago, the dinosaurs...
- Legs and posture. Parker, Steve // Dinosaurs (1-59084-464-5);2003, p6
All dinosaurs had four limbs. Unlike certain other reptiles, such as snakes and slowworms, they did not lose their limbs through evolution. The all-fours method of standing and walking is called quadrupedal. The back-limbs-only method of standing and walking is called bipedal.
- Fabrosaurs. Parker, Steve // Dinosaurs (1-59084-464-5);2003, p7
Fabrosaurs were small dinosaurs that lived toward the beginning of the Jurassic Period, about 208-200 million years ago. The group was named from Fabrosaurus, a dinosaur that was itself named in 1964, from just the fossil of a piece of lower jaw bone, found in southern Africa.
- Ancestors. Parker, Steve // Dinosaurs (1-59084-464-5);2003, p7
Experts have many opinions as to which group of reptiles were the ancestors of the dinosaurs. The earliest dinosaurs appeared in the Middle Triassic Period, about 230-225 million years ago, so their ancestors must have been around before this. Very early dinosaurs walked and ran on their...
- Prosauropods. Parker, Steve // Dinosaurs (1-59084-464-5);2003, p8
The prosauropods were the first really big dinosaurs to appear on Earth. They were plant-eaters that thrived about 230-180 million years ago. Prosauropods had small heads, long necks and tails, wide bodies, and four sturdy limbs. One of the first prosauropods was Plateosaurus, which lived...
- Raptors. Parker, Steve // Dinosaurs (1-59084-464-5);2003, p10
Raptors is a nickname for the dromaeosaur group. Raptor is variously said to mean plunderer, thief, or hunter. Dromaesaurs were medium -sized, powerful, agile, meat-eating dinosaurs that lived mainly about 110-65 million years ago. Velociraptor lived 75-70 million years ago.
