Brachiosaurus - Enchanted Learning
These unusual front legs together with its very long neck gave Brachiosaurus a giraffe-like stance and great height, up to 40-50 feet (12-16 m) tall. Brachiosaurus was about 85 feet (26 m) long, and weighed about 33-88 tons (30-80 tonnes). It had a claw on the first toe of each front foot and claws on the first three toes of each rear foot ...
Dinosaur Diets - Enchanted Learning Software
These Triceratops could supply a single T. rex with enough food to survive over its lifetime. If you look at dinosaur genera, roughly 65 percent of the dinosaurs were plant eaters and 35 percent were meat-eaters (or omnivores). If you look at the number of actual fossils found, the percentage of plant-eaters increases, since many fossils of ...
Frequently Asked Dinosaur Questions - Enchanted Learning
Habitats are very difficult to infer from the sparse fossil data that is generally available. A few of the dinosaur's contemporaneous plant or animal fossils are sometimes found, but even then, determining what the environment was like is pretty difficult. Paleontologists usually refrain from saying much about particular dinosaurs' habits ...
Minmi - Dinosaur - Enchanted Learning Software
Minmi was a small armored dinosaur (an ankylosaur) that walked on four legs and had a long tail. This plant-eater had some bony body armor on its body. Unlike other ankylosaurids, Minmi had horizontal plates of bones that ran along the sides of its vertebrae (hence its species name). Minmi had four short legs (the rear legs were larger than the ...
Allosaurus Information - Enchanted Learning
Allosaurus was up to 38 feet long (12 m) and 16.5 feet tall (5 m). It weighed about 1400 kg. It had a 3 feet long (90 cm) skull with two short brow-horns and bony knobs and ridges above its eyes and on the top of the head. It had large, powerful jaws with long, sharp, serrated teeth 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm) long.
Compsognathus Fact Sheet - Enchanted Learning
Compsognathus is known from two fossilized skeletons. Compsognathus was about the size of a chicken and is one of the smallest-known dinosaurs. It walked on two long, thin legs, had three-toed feet, a small, pointed head with small, sharp teeth, hollow bones, and a long, flexible neck. Compsognathus had short arms with two clawed fingers on ...
Therizinosaurus Fact Sheet - Enchanted Learning
Unknown. Some paleontologists have speculated that Therizinosaurus used its giant claws to rip open giant termite nests, making Therizinosaurus an insectivore (an insect-eater), but many paleontologists think that it was an herbivore (plant-eater). SIZE. Length- Roughly 23 ft (7 m) long. Height- 10 ft (3 m) tall at the hips.
Gallimimus Fact Sheet - Enchanted Learning
Gallimimus was found in the Gobi desert in the early 1970’s. A few fossils have been found. Gallimimus was a fast-moving, bird-like dinosaur with a toothless beak; the bottom front part of its beak was shaped like a shovel. It had long legs, a long neck, a long tail, and hollow bones. This dinosaur had short arms with three clawed fingers on ...
BARYONYX - Enchanted Learning
About 70% of this dinosaur's skeleton was found. Baryonyx was found 30 miles south of London, England, in 1983. It was named in 1987 by British paleontologists Angela C. Milner and Alan J. Charig. CLASSIFICATION. Baryonyx was an early Cretaceous Saurischian ("lizard-hipped") dinosaur. It was a very unusual theropod.
Dryosaurus - Dinosaur - Enchanted Learning
CLASSIFICATION Dryosaurus was an herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur, belonging to the Suborder Ornithopoda, and Family Hypsilophodontidae (gazelle-like, herbivorous, herding dinosaurs which included Hypsilophodon, Othnielia, Tenotosaurus, Parksosaurus, and Thescelosaurus). The type species is D. altus. WHEN DRYOSAURUS LIVED Dryosaurus …