Sunday, July 31, 2011

Syntarsus


Syntarsus looked a lot like coelophysis. It was probably about the same size as a chicken. It lived in the Triassic in Zimbabwe. It ate meat, probably small lizards and insects, like composognathus who lived in the Jurassic.

Coelophysis


It was a small dinosaur, only the size of a chicken. It lived in the Triassic, in New York and Arizona. This little dinosaur surprisingly ate crocodiles! Scientists found crocodile fossils in the stomach remains of some Coelophysis.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Herrerasaurus


One of the earliest dinosaurs, herrerasaurus was a carnivore witha hip that resembled both lizard hipped dinosaurs and bird hiped dinosaurs. (Saurischians and ornithschians). Its name means Herrera's lizard.

Eoraptor


A strange early dinosaur, it didn't have the same hips as other dinosaurs. This early carnivore would have preyed on insects and other small animals. It lived around the mid-triassic. So far it is the earliest dinosaur we know about.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Deinonychus


A little smaller than utahraptor, deinonychus's claw looked like a fishhook. This carnivorous dinosaur hunted in packs and lived in Montana in the Cretacious period.

Utahraptor


What was as big as an ice cream truck, had a fifteen inch long claw, and was twenty-one feet long? Utahraptor! This carnivorous dinosaur lived in Utah and hunted in packs.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Baryonyx


Baryonyx was a fish eater. It was a very strange predator. It had a long snout like a crocodile, and had an unusually long neck. It had a claw that was one foot long. And it lived in Spain.