Our Favourite Dinosaurs:
Stegosaurus.
A plant eating dinosaur which measured 26-30 feet long (8-9m), about 9
feet tall (2.75 m), and weighed about 6,800 pounds (3100 kg).
Its small brain was only the size of a walnut, and its skull was long,pointed,
and narrow; it had a toothless beak and small cheek teeth.
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Stegosaurus had bony plates that were embedded in its back. The function
of these plates is uncertain, but the most likely theory is they were used for
protection.
T Rex Tyrannosaurus Rex (tyrant lizard king)
T Rex was a huge meat-eating dinosaur that lived about 65 -85
million years ago. He was up to 40feet (12.4m) long, about 20 feet tall (6m),
and weight anything from 5 to 7 tons.
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T. rex lived in a humid, semi-tropical environment, in open forests with
nearby rivers and in coastal forested swamps. Rex was a fierce predator that
walked on two powerful legs.
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This meat-eater had a huge head with large, pointed, replaceable teeth and
well-developed jaw muscles. It had tiny arms with two fingers on each, and its
bird-like foot had three large toes, all equipped with claws (plus a little
dewclaw on a tiny, vestigial fourth toe).
Brontosaurus.
Brontosaurus was one of the largest land animals that ever existed. This
enormous plant-eater measured about 70-90 feet (21-27 m) long and about 15
feet (4.6 m) tall at the hips. It weighed roughly 33-38 tons (30-35 tonnes).
Its head was less than 2 feet long; it had a long skull and a very tiny
brain. Brontosaurus nostrils were located on the top of its head.
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No one knows why this is, possible theory’s are they were snorkel-like for
travelling through water, but no fossils have ever been found close enough to
water to substantiated this. Others think they were there so it didn’t get
what it was eating up its nose!
Acanthopholis
Acanthopholis (meaning: spiny scales) was an armoured, quadrupedal
(walked on four legs), plant-eating dinosaur from the early Cretaceous period.
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Its armour was rows of oval plates set into its skin, plus it had spikes
jutting out of its neck and shoulder area along the spine. It was about 15
feet long (4 m) and weighed roughly 380 kg.
Acanthopholis lived during the early Cretaceous Period, about 115-91
million years ago.
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Triceratops
Triceratops was a rhinoceros-like dinosaur, which walked on four sturdy
legs and had three horns on its face along with a large bony plate projecting
from the back of its skull (a frill).
It had one short horn above its parrot-like beak and two longer horns above
its eyes probably provided protection from predators.
It had a large skull, up to 10 feet (3m) long, one of the largest skulls
of any land animal ever discovered.
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Its head was nearly one-third as long as its body. Triceratops hatched
from eggs.
Hylaeosaurus
Hylaeosaurus, meaning woodland lizard, was an armoured, quadrupedal,
plant-eating dinosaur from the early Cretaceous period, about 135-119 million
years ago.
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Hylaeosaurus was about 13 feet (4 m) long, had short legs, a narrow head
with a pointed snout, a long heavy tail and spikes along its shoulders and
sides.
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Its entire top side was heavily protected from predators with only its
under-belly unplated Flipping it over was the only way to wound it.
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