Dinosaur

Podokesaurus Holyokensis (meaning “swift-footed lizard from Holyoke”) roamed the Connecticut Valley during the early Jurassic period 190 to 174 million years ago, leaving its footprints in the soft, reddish mud that hardened into sandstone over time. The dinosaur was about the size of a large house cat, with formidable claws, supple neck, slender torso, and an outrageously elongated tail. In the mid-1800s, paleontologists began to study what locals had wondered about for generations: those…

Could you imagine a 40 foot, 8 ton animal on the planet? Your answer is as good as mine. No. But almost 100 million years ago this animal, Giganotosaurus, also known as "giant southern lizard" existed. The Giganotosaurus, lived in the Cretaceous period about 95-100 million years ago. It was notorious during its era. The Giganotosaurus tended to stalk their prey before they killed. They were meat eaters (carnivores). Even though their teeth were long and knife like, their jaws were not strong…

fun and enjoy yourself. In this book, things went wrong with the electricity, workers, and the dinosaurs. Electricity and maintenance was a big problem during this book. In the beginning, the electricity went out so it basically turned the park off and they had no control over anything. The park has electric fences which is powered with the electricity of course. Since it went off, the dinosaurs were able to get out. That was the major problem of this story. It took a long time for them to…

Mesozoic Era: The dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago. The Mesozoic Era lasted about 180 million years, and is divided into three periods, the Triassic, the Jurassic, and the Cretaceous. Each of these periods is divided into many epochs and ages. Earth during the Mesozoic Era was much warmer than today, and the planet had no polar ice caps. During the Triassic Period, Pangaea still formed one massive supercontinent. Without much coastline to moderate the continent's interior temperature…

85 million years ago a dinosaur named the pteranodon came to life. Named by Othniel C. Marsh in 1876, the pteranodon was an exceptional flying dinosaur. It’s name, meaning “winged and toothless,” was for the most part self explanatory. It was a flying dinosaur with a very wide wingspan and no teeth. Did you know that the pteranodon wing-span is longer than that of any known bird? It had a crest on its head, no teeth at all, and a very short tail. Despite what many people still think, modern…

the journey to aid you in making the raft. As you walk along, scan around for strong vines to provide strong fastening to your raft and logs, planks and tree bark as base. Another alternative is for you to try and spot the Aetodactylus, a flying dinosaur that can be seen in the skies of North America, thus useful for you to travel east to Eurasia and China. You can spot an Aetodactylus via its distinguishing characteristics- its long, narrow snout studded with sharp teeth but do not worry about…

Ichthyosaurs, or fish-lizards, are fish-shaped reptiles that lived in our oceans 160 million years ago, during the Jurassic period. Paleontologists discovered the first fossils in the early 1800s, far before dinosaurs were ever discovered. This genus evolved from animals that lived on land. They had more than eighty different species in their genus. One species of the ichthyosaurs is the Ophthalmosaurus. As an adult, this creature was two times the size of a human with a tooth filled snout.…

Dinosaurs, these wondrous creatures have ensnared the imagination of children and paleontologist alike for several generations. The possible discoveries of dinosaur fossils during the ancient Roman, Greek and Chinese civilizations were what gave rise to legends of griffins, dragons and other monstrous lore. With every new discovery there have been great leaps made in understanding the dinosaurs. Yet there is one dinosaur in particular that has continued to captivate the imagination of children…

The triceratops was a large, four-legged, plant-eating ceratopsian dinosaur that had a frill of bone at the back of its skull and three distinguished horns on its face. … Triceratops were the most common kind in western North America and Canada. These dinosaurs were one of the last dinosaurs to roam the Western Interior. They lived in the late Cretaceous period, around 145.5 - 65.5 million years ago. Fossils of this species are most commonly recovered in the uppermost Cretaceous deposits of…

“bipedal, three-toed lizards” viciously attacking people within the jungles of mainland Costa Rica. Notorious paleontologist and dinosaur expert Dr. Alan Grant and his colleague, Dr. Ellie Sattler (a paleobotanist) are called upon to investigate these occurrences, and much to their shock and horror, these lizard-like creatures are revealed to be small carnivorous dinosaurs (Procompsognathus to be exact). Nevertheless, their investigation on said matter comes to a screeching halt when they are…