Language Learning for Kids.
Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for about 165 million years, and they became extinct about 65 million years ago. It is quite difficult to comprehend these ancient dates and large numbers and so we decided to take a look at these figures in a different way. Let’s imagine that Dinosaur’s lived on earth for one calendar […]
The Deinonychus is a really interesting dinosaur that has answered a lot of questions about dinosaurs and has created a whole lot more questions. One of the biggest questions the Deinonychus created was whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded. Before scientists started to study the Deinonychus, they mostly believed that dinosaurs were slow, cold-blooded animals.
The movie Jurassic Park turned the Velociraptor into one of the most well-known names in the dinosaurs. If Velociraptors were still alive today, they would probably think this was pretty cool…except for one problem: The Velociraptors in Jurassic Park were nothing like the real-life version of these dinosaurs! In fact, the “Velociraptors” in that movie
The Ankylosaurus is not one of the most famous dinosaurs, but it might be one of the coolest! While the Ankylosaurus only ate plants, it had a tail that was like a big club, and its body was covered in armor! In fact, the Ankylosaurus is sometimes called the tank of dinosaurs. Its tail could
The Brachiosaurus was one of the biggest animals to ever walk the Earth! A lot of the information we have about the Brachiosaurus comes from the stuff we know about the Giraffatitan, which scientists used to think was one type of Brachiosaurus. Giraffatitans weight as much as 23 tons, which is about as much as
The Stegosaurus is one of the most popular dinosaurs, and the huge plates on that stood up from its back make it really easy to recognize. These plates were probably used to protect the Stegosaurus, but some scientists think these plates did other things too. In fact, these plates might have even helped keep the
The Triceratops was the last type of dinosaur to become extinct, which means that they lived more recently than any other dinosaur! The Triceratops is very easy to recognize, because it had three horns on its face and a really big head. In fact, the head of the Triceratops could be longer than a full-grown
The Tyrannosaurus Rex was one of the biggest and most dangerous dinosaurs to ever walk the Earth. The name Tyrannosaurus Rex means “Tyrant Lizard King,” and the T Rex’s big body and huge teeth made it dangerous to a lot of smaller dinosaurs. It stood as high as a second floor window, and its teeth
We know most of our information about dinosaurs from the bones and fossils that paleontologists have found in the ground. These bones have told us about what dinosaurs looked like, the ways they were built, and even the ways their bodies worked! There are also other fossils that paleontologists have found from the same time
The truth is, no one really knows how dinosaurs became extinct. We know that it is not normal for a whole group of animals to die out at once, and there are lots and lots of ideas about why this happened. A lot of scientists think that there was a big meteorite that smashed into
While some dinosaurs liked to be alone most of the time, there were other dinosaurs who always wanted to be with each other! These dinosaurs who liked to be with their friends usually stayed together for a reason. Sometimes, these groups of dinosaurs stayed together to hunt. Other times, they stayed together for protection. And
We all know that some dinosaurs were really, really big, but have you ever wondered why? Nowadays, the only animals that come close to being as big as dinosaurs are whales, and there have never been animals outside the ocean who grew as big as dinosaurs. Paleontologists think that one of the reasons dinosaurs grew
Dinosaurs didn’t talk the same way you and I do, but like all animals they had their own ways of communicating. All dinosaurs probably used body language to tell others what they were thinking, especially when a boy dinosaur liked a girl dinosaur or when one dinosaur was angry at another, but some dinosaurs probably communicated
Have you ever imagined what it would be like to have a hungry T. Rex chasing you? Well, believe it or not, there is actually a chance you would have been able to get away! Some scientists think that the Tyrannosaurus Rex was no faster than a person. Of course…there are other scientists who think
You might wonder how long a dinosaur lived. If you wonder this, you are not alone! Scientists have spent a bunch of time trying to answer this question, but a final answer depends on a lot of different things. One of the things we still don’t know about dinosaurs is whether they were warm-blooded or
You might be wondering how many different types of dinosaurs there were. This is a very good question, but one problem in answering this question is that we’re not even sure how many dinosaurs we know of! About 700 species of dinosaurs have been named, but some scientists think that we only know of about
All animals need warmth inside their bodies if they want to stay alive. While some animals, like dogs and birds and even people, can keep their insides warm even when it’s cold outside, there are other animals, like lizards and snakes who have to use the sun and air to keep their insides warm! Some
We don’t know what dinosaurs called each other when they were still walking around on Earth, but we certainly know what we call them nowadays. And let’s face it, some of the names sound downright funny! Triceratops? Pterodactyl? Where in the world did these names come from! Well, these names came from all sorts of
You’ve probably seen at least one drawing of dinosaurs that shows a Stegosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus standing close by each other, but…you know what? Stegosauruses and Tyrannosauruses lived millions of years apart. In fact, the time between the T-Rex and the stegosaurus is even bigger than the time between the T-Rex and you! The three
230 million years ago, Earth looked a lot different from the way it looks today. Not only did dinosaurs live on all seven continents back then, but also, all seven continents were stuck together as one big continent called Pangaea. That would sure make it a lot easier to travel around the world, wouldn’t it!
There are still a lot of things we don’t know about dinosaurs, but one thing we know for sure is that dinosaurs and people never lived on Earth at the same time. In fact, people did not appear on Earth until about 65 million years after dinosaurs disappeared! Then again, some paleontologists think that our
You might wonder how long ago dinosaurs first showed up on Earth. Well, the simplest answer is “A long, long time ago!” To be more exact, there was a dinosaur in South America called the Eoraptor who lived about 230 million years ago! And that’s not even the end of the story. Scientists think they
Just like people, different dinosaurs had different skin colors! Of course, there are no pictures of dinosaurs that let us see exactly what they looked like, but paleontologists (the scientists who get to study old fossils!) have a pretty good idea of the colors that different dinosaurs wore. Recently they discovered that some dinosaurs had
Just like you and me, dinosaurs got hungry! But dinosaurs couldn’t just pop open a bag of candy when they wanted to eat. They had to find food on their own. Some dinosaurs ate lizards and turtles. Some dinosaurs ate eggs. Some dinosaurs ate other dinosaurs, and some even ate animals that were already dead!
The world would have been a different place if the dinosaurs were roaming all around. But they are gone…it’s been about 65 million years… The story goes like a giant meteor hitting Yukatan peninsula in Today’s Mexico and activating many volcanoes. The skies were covered with ashes, plants did not grow and many creatures