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Dino Facts............

Tyrannosaurus rex (T-REX) means "Tyrant Lizard King".
T-Rex stood 40 feet long and weighed 5-7 tons. Its jaws were about 4ft long and its teeth grew up to 13 inches in length.

 

The Velociraptor was very small compared to other Dinosaurs of the time. It stood only 6 feet long. It was a pack hunter. Recent discoveries show that the Velociraptor had feathers!

 

 

In appearance, Crocodiles and Alligators are the animals that resemble Dinosaurs the most.
Today, birds are the closest living thing to Dinosaurs. Dinosaur fossils have been discovered with feathers still attached. A recent discovery tell us that the Velociraptor actually had feathers.
Fossilised fish are often found embedded in hill tops indicating sea levels millions of years ago.
Ammonites, as they pertain specifically to the order Ammonitida, are an extinct group of marine animals belonging to the cephalopod subclass Ammonoidea. They are excellent index fossils, and it is often possible to link the rock layer in which they are found to specific geological time periods.
Globidens was ~6 m (20 ft) in length and in appearance very much like other mosasaurs (streamlined body with flippers, a laterally flattened tail and powerful jaws). The teeth of Globidens were vastly different from other mosasaurs, as they were globular, as suggested in its generic name.
Prognathodon is an extinct genus of marine reptile belonging to the mosasaur family. It had protective bony rings surrounding its eye sockets, indicating it lived in deep water.
The Tylosaurus was probably the biggest ocean dwelling carnivores during the Cretaceous Period. It sized above 40 feet in length.
Platecarpus is a medium sized example of the mosasaurs, an extinct group of Cretaceous marine reptiles. Mosasaurs reached lengths of over 15 metres.
Kronosaurus was a short-necked plesiosaur, a meat-eating marine reptile 30 feet (9 m) long. It had four flippers, a huge head with strong jaws, and a short, pointed tail. The head was up to 9 feet (2.7 m) long, about 1/3 of the entire length of the body.
Ammonites were predatory, squidlike creatures that lived inside coil-shaped shells. Like other cephalopods, ammonites had sharp, beaklike jaws inside a ring of tentacles that extended from their shells to snare prey such as small fish and crustaceans.
SUPERSAURUS is one of the longest land animals yet discovered. It was a long-necked, whip-tailed giant, measuring about 138 feet (42 m) long and 54 feet (16.5 m) tall, with a 39 foot (12 m) long neck.
Dryosaurus was about 10 feet (3 m) long, 5 feet (1.7 m) tall at the hips, and weighed about 170-200 pounds (77-90 kg). It had large eyes, long, thin legs with three toes, much shorter arms with five long fingers, a horny beak, a toothless upper front jaw, and self-sharpening cheek teeth. It may have stored food in its cheeks. It had a long neck and a stiff tail used for balance.
Diplodocus had a 26 foot (8 m) long neck and a 45 foot (14 m) long, whip-like tail. Its head was less than 2 feet long and its nostrils were at the top of the head. The front legs were shorter than its back legs, and all legs had elephant-like, five-toed feet. One toe on each foot had a thumb claw, probably for protection.
Brachiosaurus was one of the tallest and largest dinosaurs yet found. It had a long neck, small head, and relatively short, thick tail.

Brachiosaurus walked on four legs and, like the other Brachiosaurids and unlike most dinosaurs, its front legs were longer than its hind legs.

Although Stegosaurus was about the size of a bus, it had a small head (the size of a horse's head) and a brain that was only the size of a walnut!
Triceratops was about twice the size of a rhinoceros. It had four short legs with three horns on it's face. Two long horns were above it's eyes and one short stubby horn on it's nose.
Pyroraptor was a dromaeosaurid, a small, bird-like predatory theropod that possessed enlarged curved, slashing claws on the second toe of each foot. Each of these claws were 6.5 centimeters (2.5 in) long.
The longest meat-eating dinosaur yet discovered is Giganotosaurus, a 44-46 ft (13.5-14.3 m) long behemoth, who weighed about 8 tons and stood 12 feet tall (at the hips). It walked on two legs, had a brain the size of a banana, and had enormous jaws with 8-inch long serrated teeth in a 6-foot (1.8 m) long skull.
Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, found in Egypt and Morocco during the Upper Cretaceous, had a sail-like structure of fleshy spines extending from its vertebrae. The original Spinosaurus fossil specimens were destroyed during Allied bombing of Germany in 1944..
Velociraptor was a fast-running, two-legged (bipedal) dinosaur. This meat-eater had about 80 very sharp, curved teeth in a long, flat snout; some of the teeth were over an inch (2.5 cm) long. This predator had an s-shaped neck, arms with three-fingered clawed hands, long thin legs, and four-toed clawed feet. Velociraptor's head was about 7 inches (18 cm) long.
T. rex was a huge meat-eating dinosaur that lived during the late Cretaceous period, about 85 million to 65 million years ago. T. rex lived in a humid, semi-tropical environment, in open forests with nearby rivers and in coastal forested swamps.
Growing up to 13 metres in length, Allosaurus was the most common carnivorous dinosaurs in Jurassic North America. Smaller meat-eating dinosaurs such as Ornitholestes may have hunted in packs and scavenged the kills of these larger predators.