Thursday, December 1, 2011

List of Some Dinosaur Information

By Anthony Starks


We all watched dinosaurs via movies such as Jurassic Recreation area and King Kong, but wait, how much do you really know about dinosaur games for kids? Listed here are some interesting facts about dinosaurs which you can amaze your friends and family along with:

There are quite a few candidates for the most significant dinosaur, as there are several types of dinosaur which are over 100 foot (30 metres) long. The largest has been certainly some kind of sauropod (the four-legged plant-eating dinosaur with a long neck of the guitar) that lived in the late Jurassic or early Cretaceous period.

The word "dinosaur" was coined by Mister Richard Owen, who furthermore founded the Natural History Museum in London, England. "Dinosaur" implies terrible lizard, and is based on the Greek phrases "deinos" (terrible) and "sauros" (dinosaur).

People have been finding dinosaur fossils for hundreds of years, but didn't know what they have been until quite lately. The first time that a dinosaur had been scientifically described was in 1824, by William Buckland.

Our planet's continents slowly proceed through a process known as "plate tectonics". Any time dinosaurs first appeared throughout the Triassic period, all the earth's continents were gathered in one super-continent known as "Pangea".

Each of the familiar types of dinosaurs, passed away off at the end of the particular Cretaceous period. There are many different hypotheses why this may have happened, but today the most popular theory is that a good asteriod hit the earth, preventing the sunlight so that there were not enough food available. Evidence for this principle is a layer involving iridium, which is believed to attended from the asteroid, has been found around the world, and a possible impact site found in the southern area of Mexico.

The smallest recognized dinosaur is Compsognathus, which resided in Europe throughout the late Jurassic, and involved the size of a hen. Compsognathus is believed to have swallowed insects, lizards and other modest animals.

At the same time that dinosaurs dominated your land, there were numerous aquatic reptiles that will dominated the ocean, although these were certainly not dinosaur names. These aquatic reptiles included plesiosaurs, nothosaurs, mosasaurs and ichythosaurs.

Even though birds seem to have started out dinosaurs, no non-avian flying dinosaurs tend to be known. However, at the time of dinosaurs there were many soaring reptiles, known as pterosaurs.

Dinosaurs first appeared through the Triassic period (248 to 213 million years ago), and have been the dominant land animals through the entire Jurassic period, and to the end with the Cretaceous period (65 million years ago).

We know about dinosaurs because fossils have been found. The fossils, which are generally found in sedimentary rocks, including fossilized body parts (bones, the teeth, skin, claws, and so on.), as well as trace past ("ichnofossils") which show what sort of animals lived, that include footprints, burrows, nests, toothmarks, dung, etc.




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