Dinosaurs designs were varied and spectacular. A group of dinosaurs called the sauropods were the largest land animals that ever lived . The smallest dinosaurs were dog-sized. Large or small. All world have been wary of hungry meat eaters. Some dinosaurs had armored skin for protection. Others were fast runners and could escape predators by fleeing to safer ground .
Dinosaur terror
Tyrannosaurus rex
and other fierce meat eaters
had huge,
sharp teeth with
witch they killed prey.
Herbivores
There were many more herbivores (Plant eaters) than carnivores (Meat eaters) in dinosaur world.
A herbivore called Stegosaurus had a sharp beak for cropping leaves off plants.
(Compsognathus reached just below Barosaurus's ankle). |
Compsognathus had long lgs for running fast. |
Edmontonia |
Spiky Protection
The slow-moving ankylosaurus, Which were herbivores,had armored skin for protection from sharp-toothed carnivores. Edmontonia had bony plates and spikes on its skin. It lived at the same time and in the same places as Tyranosaurus rex, So it needed all the protection its armor could give.
Dinosaurs Facts :
- There were about thirty times more herbivores than carnivores.
- The fastest dinosaurs were the theropods, which ran on two legs.
- Dinosaurs did not fly or live in sea.
- The sauropods were the largest dinosaurs.
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