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.

Spinosaurus


Spinosaurus was the tallest dinosaur of them all. It's sail was seven feet high. It ate meat and fish. It was the largest of the spinosaurids It lived in the late cretacious in Egypt.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Carnotaurus


Carnotaurus meant meat-eating-bull for the small horns above each eye. It lived in Argentina it lived in the mid-Jurassic. It's horns were probably used for head-butting like bulls do today

T-rex


T-Rex lived in Idaho in the late Cretaceous, it had bone crushing teeth and powerful jaws used for killing other dinosaurs, not too much unlike allosaurus jaws

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Allosaurus


Allosaurs lived in Colorado. They lived in the late Jurassic period and probably preyed upon stegosaurus, diplodocus, and apatosaurus. Its only enemy was another allosaurus.





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Compsognathus


Compsognathus lived in the Jurassic period. It ate insects and other small animals, It lived in packs. It is found in Europe the same place early cretaceous baryonyx lived.