They lived in the Jurassic period about 150 million years ago.
The main Stegosaurus predator was Allosaurus.
Triceratops was a late Cretaceous herbivorous dinosaur, the favorite food of Tyrannosaurus Rex.
They are mainly found in Hell Creek, Montana.
The name Triceratops means "horrid three-horned face".
Saturday, June 25, 2011
The most complete Tyrannosaurus fossil is nicknamed Sue, and the second most complete is nicknamed Stan.
Tyrannosaurus are around 39 feet long.
Their fossils are found in North America, and in Asia as Tarbosaurus.
Megalosaurus was one of the first dinosaurs ever discovered.
It was about 36 feet long.
Megalosaurus fossils were first found in 1676, but it was named in 1826
and was found near Oxford, England.
Velociraptors were very small meat eaters only 1 meter (3 feet 4 inches long). Velociraptor fossils are mainly found in Mongolia.
Velociraptors' main predator was Tarbosaurus.
Velociraptors were very fast and hunted in packs.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Leaellynasaura was a 7-foot-long herbivorous dinosaur. The original Leaellynasaura fossil was a skull.
Leaellynasaura may of had feathers as insulation.
Wannanosaurus was an herbivorous dinosaur only 2 feet long. Even though it was one of the smallest dinosaurs it was not helpless because it headbutted it's predators. Since Wannanosaurus was so small it was probably one of the cutest dinosaurs ever.
The name Zephyrosaurus means "westward wind lizard". Zephyrosaurus was a hypsilophodont. It was an herbivorous dinosaur. The original Zephyrosaurus fossil is a partial skull.
