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

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

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

Spinosaurus

Spinosaurus

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Spinosaurus

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What does its name mean? – Spine lizard

What did they eat? – Scientists aren’t sure whether it was a hunter like the T-rex or a fish eater. We do know it ate meat.

When did they live? – They lived around 112 to 97 million years ago.

How big were they? – It’s though they could grow to over 12m and up to 18m long.

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You can see a model of  man beside a spinosaurus model in the photo below.

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

The fully grown spinosaurus was larger than a T-rex but they weren’t alive at the same time. I wonder what might have happened if a T-Rex and a spinosaurus met?

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Spinosaurus

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Tyrannosaurus Rex

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What does its name mean? – tyrant lizard king

What did they eat? – The T-rex was a meat eater.

When did they live? – They lived around 65 to 70 million years ago.

How big were they? – They could grow to over 12m long.

You can see a model of  man beside a T-rex model in the photo below.

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The next photo shows the skull of a T-rex I took back in 1979. You can see a boy’s hand in front of the skull.

 

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Tyrannosaurus Rex

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