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In this issue...
2. Welcome
3. Did you know?
4. Librophilia
5. Dinosaurs through time
6. Fossils and Palaeontology
8. Dinosauria
9. Saurischia
10. Theropoda
12. Sauropodomorpha
13. Ornithischia
14. Pterosauria
16. Cerapoda
18. Thyreophora
20. Marine Life in the Mesozoic Era
22. Mass Extinction!
23. Jurassic Park
24. Cool sites!
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Did you know?
zz The Fastest Dinosaur was Coelophysis and other
Ornithomimosaurs.
zz The dinosaur with the longest name was
Micropachycephalosaurus meaning “tiny thickheaded lizard”. Its fossils have been found in
China, and it was named in 1978 by the Chinese
palaeontologist Dong.
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zz The word dinosaur comes from the Greek
language and means ‘terrible lizard’. The word
was coined by English paleontologist Richard
Owen in 1842 and was meant to refer to Dinosaurs
impressive size rather than their scary appearance.
zz The first dinosaur to be formally named was
the Megalosaurus, back in 1824. It was named in
1824 by Reverend William Buckland. Megalosaurus
means ‘great lizard’ and it was about 9 metres long,
and 3 metres tall.
zz The Biggest Dinosaurs were the Sauropods.
Seismosaurus was about 50 metres long.
Argentinosaurus was the heaviest at 100 tons. The
Brachiosaurus was around 12 metres high (which
helped it reach branches in trees). Gigantosaurus
was the largest hunting dinosaur, at approximately
14 metres long and up to 8 tons!
zz Dinosaur eggs are many shapes and sizes. Some
are up to 40cm long or more. But bigger eggs didn’t
always mean bigger dinosaurs. Some very large
dinosaurs had small eggs. The first dinosaur egg
fossils were found in France in 1869. Many dinosaur
eggs found still have their original shells.
zz The tallest dinosaurs were the Brachiosaurid
group of sauropods. Their front legs were longer
than the rear legs giving them a giraffe-like stance.
This combined with their extremely long necks,
which were held vertically, meant they could browse
off the tallest trees. Sauroposeidon was massive
and probably grew to 18.5 metres tall making it the
tallest dinosaur.
zz At 20cm long, a T. rex tooth was the largest tooth
of any carnivore.
zz At 1.5 metres high, 1.2 metres wide, the
largest bone in the world is the backbone of
Argentinosaurus, a plant-eating dinosaur.
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