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DINOSAUR CENTRAL
DINO FUN FACTS

The word "dinosaur" means terrible lizard.

 Names: Usually a Greek name. Named after a body feature, the place where they were found, or after a person involved in the discovery.

Paleontologist: A scientist who studies prehistoric life (plants and animals).

Dinosaur remains have been found on every continent, including Antarctica.

Fossils: Are the remains or traces of ancient life. All fossils are OLD, at least 10,000 years old.

Biggest: Probably the Brachiosaurus. It was 40 feet tall, or tall as a 4-story building!

Extinction: Dinosaurs became extinct about 65 million years ago (the end of the Cretaceous Period), They lived on the Earth for about 165-180 million years.

Fastest: Because their bodies were built like the common ostrich, Ornithomimids were the fastest dinosaurs.

Oldest: Eoraptors, from rocks in Argentina and Brazil, are about 230 million years old.

Relatives: Birds are very closely related to dinosaurs. Many paleontologists consider birds to be simply advanced feathered dinosaurs.

Smallest: Compsognathus were the smallest, close to the size of a chicken.

Longest: Seismosaurus is  the longest known dinosaur. It was more than 140-ft. long and may have weighed 80 to 100 tons.