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Which is the spinosaurus tooth?

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The teeth are only replicas and are not fossils.

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Which tooth belonged to the spinosaurus?

Did you guess number 3?

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Let’s find out more about the other teeth…

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Number 1

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Carcharodontosaurus

What does its name mean? – Shark toothed lizard

What did they eat? – Carcharodontosaurus were meat eaters.

When did they live? – Carcharodontosaurus lived around 100 to 93  million years ago.

How big were they? – They could grow to a length of up to about 13m

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Carcharodontosaurus

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Number 2

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Albertosaurus

What does its name mean? – Alberta lizard

What did they eat? – Albertosaurus was a meat eater.

When did they live? – Albertosaurus lived about 70 million years ago.

How big were they? – They could grow to a length of up to about 9m long.

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Albertosaurus

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Number 4

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Tarbosaurus

What does its name mean? – alarming lizard

What did they eat? – They were meat eaters.

When did they live? – Tarbosaurus lived about 70 million years ago. It might be the Asian type of T-rex.

How big were they? – They could grow to a length of up to about 12m long.

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Tarbosaurus

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Iguanodon

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Iguanodon

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What does its name mean? – iguana tooth

What did they eat? – They were plant eaters.

When did they live? – Iguanodons lived around 135 to 125  million years ago.

How big were they? – They could grow up to about 13 metres long

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Carnotaurus

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Carnotaurus

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What does its name mean? – Meat eating bull

What did they eat? – They were meat eaters.

When did they live? – Carnotaurus lived around 72 to 70  million years ago.

How big were they? – They grew up to about 9m long.

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Carnotaurus

Pteranodon

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Pteranodon

The pteranodon were not dinosaurs. They were flying reptiles.

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What does its name mean? – Wing toothless

What did they eat? – They probably ate mostly fish.

When did they live? – Pteranodons lived around 85 to 75 million years ago.

How big were they? – The pteranodons could have a wingspan (wingtip to wingtip) of over 6m.

How many types of pteranodons were there? – Scientists have found over 1,200 species of pteranodons.

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Could they fly or only glide? – In early years many thought they could only glide but we now believe they could fly. Some were known to have flown long distances just like some birds migrate thousands of kilometres.

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Pteranodon

Deinosuchus

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Deinosuchus rugosus

Deinosuchus was not a dinosaur. It is related to modern day alligators. The small skull is of a modern crocodile.

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What does its name mean? – Terrible crocodile

What did they eat? – Like modern day crocodiles and alligators, deinosuchus ate meat.

When did they live? – Deinosuchus lived around 80 to 73 million years ago.

How big were they? – They could have been up to 8 to 10m long.

 

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Deinosuchus

Triceratops

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Triceratops

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What does its name mean? – Three horn face

What did they eat? – The triceratops was a plant eater.

When did they live? – Triceratops lived around 68 to 66 million years ago.

How big were they? – The triceratops could be up to 9m long and 3m high.

How did they protect themselves? – The three horns on their heads were probably used to protect them but they may also have been used to attract a mate.

Were there more types of ceratops? – Over time, there had been many types of ceratops although the triceratops is the most famous. The photo below shows the skull of a centrosaurus apertus, another ceratops type.

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Triceratops

Stegosaurus

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Stegosaurus

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What does its name mean? – Covered lizard

What did they eat? – The stegosaurus was a plant eater.

When did they live? – Stegosaurus lived around 150 to 155 million years ago.

How big were they? – The stegosaurus could be up to 9m long and 4m high.

How did they protect themselves? – Look at the photo below. The stegosaurus would wave their tail spikes to warn attackers. The plates on their back most likely helped them warm up or cool down and could also have been used to protect them.

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What did their skeleton look like? – Inside the museum, you can see a skeleton of a stegosaurus. You can see how small its head was.

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How big was its brain? – Despite its large size, its brain was only about the size of a dog’s brain.

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Stegosaurus

Parasaurolophus

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Parasaurolophus

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What does its name mean? – Near lizard crest

What did they eat? – They were plant eaters.

When did they live? – Parasaurolophus lived around 76 to 73 million years ago.

How big were they? – They were thought to grow to over 9m in length.

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Parasaurolophus

 

Brachiosaurus

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Brachiosaurus

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What does its name mean? – arm lizard

What did they eat? – They were plant eaters. It seems they could stand on their back legs to reach higher for food.

When did they live? – Brachiosaurus lived around 156 to 145 million years ago.

How big were they? – The brachiosaurus could be up to 27m from head to the tip of its tail. I don’t have a picture of a brachiosaur but I do have one of a Jobaria. The Jobaria was about the same length as a brachiosaur. The picture shows the Jobaria standing on its back legs.

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Brachiosaurus

Raptors

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Raptors

There are a number of types of raptors including the Utahraptor below.

Utahraptor

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What does its name mean? –

Utahraptor – Utah’s predator

Velociraptor – Swift predator

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Did they have feathers? – It’s thought the raptors may have had feathers.

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What did they eat? – They were meat eaters and may have hunted in packs. Look at the photo of a replica raptor claw.

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When did they live? – Velociraptors lived around 75 to 71 million years ago. Utahraptors were much earlier at around 120 million years ago.

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How big were they? – It’s thought velociraptors could grow to around 1.6m long and 60cm high. Utahraptors could grow to around 7m long.

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The video below shows an animated model of a Utahraptor at Canberra’s National Dinosaur Museum.

 

When I look at this video, I think it isn’t really a velociraptor as it is too large. It may be a model of a Utahraptor because they could grow much bigger.

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Utahaptors