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	01 MASSOSPONDYLUS 'Massive Vertebra' Lived during the Triassic age 200- -210 million years ago Look out! This hefty monster was a real slash and grab expert! The long vicious clams on its thumb meant trouble for even the fiercest attackers. Massos-pondylus (mass-oh-spon-die-lus) was one of the earliest dinosaurs. h had a large. bulky body with a tiny lead and grew up to 6m in length. With its small - sharp teeth - it probably had a mixed diet -mainly plants with eerie tasty insects for variety. The thumb claw would have been very useful for digging and grabbing at trees so it could eat the leaves
	02 PLATEOSAURUS 'Flat Lizard' Lived during the Triassic age 195-216 million years ago Guess what the 'daily grind' of the plant-eating Plateosaurus (plat-ee-oh-sore-az) was ? It had the weirdest way of digesting its food which it always swallowed whole. hate stones and kept them in its stomach to grind the food into tiny places! Plateosaurus grew to about 6m long and 3m tall. It mainly walked on all fours - bat could stared to reach tall plants. Its tiny teeth were used for stippling soft leaves and shoots from plants.
	03 COELOPHYSIS 'Hollow Form' Lived during the Triassic age 210 million years ago Look out! Here's a really fast mover! Though there were massive - slow moving dinosaurs - some could really run! The coelophysis (see-lo-fie-sis) was a cunning - agile flesh-eater about 2.5m long. Standing on its back legs - it would have reached a humans waist. It was a quick - clever hunter with long - slender legs - short arms and a very long tail - which helped it balance as it sprinted after its prey. It also had a long neck so it could reach down to catch smaller animals. Coelophysis probably ate insects and small lizards.
	04 LESOthOSAURUS 'Lesotho Lizard' Lived during the Triassic age 195-200 million years ago This pocket-sized dinosaur was pretty nifty! Lesothosaurus (lay-so-toe-sore-us) was only about 1m long -no larger than a big dog - funny kind of pet! Fast and agile - its only protection from predators was to dash away to safety as fast as it could. Its long tail helped it balance when it stood up and ran. Lesothosaurus was a plant-eater with short arms and stubby - blunt claws - which ground its food up with tiny - arrow-shaped teeth. This one's got a hat on!
	05 MEGalOSAURUS 'Great Lizard' Lived during the Jurassic age 140-175 million years ago When they found the fossil bones of this monster in sleepy old Oxfordshire they thought t was a big lizard ! Some big lizard! t would have been us long us two cars! It's lard to piece together exactly what t would have been like - because no-one has ever found a complete Megalosaurus skeleton. From the size and shape of the jaw and hip bones - however. It was obvi-ously a large - powerful predator - and t probably had a very nasty temper!
	06 COMPSOGNAthUS 'Elegant Jaw' Lived during the Jurassic age 150 million years ago Magic! We've got a real mini-dinosaur here! Standing all of 70cm tall. Compsognathus (konp-sng-ea-thus) was about the size of a hen. It is one of the smallest dinosaurs ever known. but make no mistake - It had a good turn of sped. It started about hunting large insects. lizards and perhaps creatures such as this grounded Pterosaur (flying reptile). It had long - spindly legs. short arms - a long - slender sack and a small head. It weighed 7kg. abut the same as your Christmas Turkey
	07 alLOSAURUS 'Other Lizard' Lived during the Jurassic age 140-150 million years ago Truly awesome - this one! Allosaurus (a!-oh-sore-so) was a mighty hunter! The biggest and fiercest giant flesh eater of its time - it grew to about 15m long - weighed up to 3 tonnes and mould have towered over a giraffe! h bad true than 70 dagger-like teeth with serrated edges like steak knives - and its enormous mouth could gobble up very large prey. This dinosaur had short arms - a long tail and a tremendously powerful body.
	08 BRACHIOSARUS 'Arm Lizard' Lived during the Jurassic age 130-150 million years ago I can't believe how huge this dinosaur was - can you? It was even bigger than a house! One of the largest animals that ever lived - Brachiosaurus (brak-ee oh-osre-us) was 25m long (as long as six cars) weighed about 50 tonnes (the same as eight elephants) and was so tall it would be able to peer into fourth-floor windows It is called 'arm lizard' because of its long front legs It would have easily grazed on the tree-tops
	09 APATOSAURUS 'Deceptive Reptile' Lived during the Jurassic age 140-150 million years ago What a whopper! A heavyweight among the plant-eating dinosaurs - the giant Apatosaurus (up-at-oh-sore-us) weighed up to 30 tonnes - more than three double-decker bases - and was 20m long. It bad a tiny head and a long - sturdy neck which allowed it to much tree tops. It used its small - peg-like teeth to strip off leaves - which it would then swallow whole. Because it was so big it would bane bad to eat constantly to survive - and kept stones in its stomach to grind up its food.
	10 CAMPTOSAURUS 'Bent Lizard' Lived during the Jurassic up 140-150 million years ago Chomp! Chomp! Camptosaurus (kamp-toe-sore-us) was a plant-eater with scis-sor-action teeth! It was tiny compared to many of its giant neighbours - bat was still 5m long and twice as tall as a person. It had a sham - bird-like mouth for nibbling at plants - and highly specialised thick teeth with rough edges for grinding up leaves and shoots. It walked on all fours but could rear up onto its back legs to dash away from ferocious predators such us Allosaurus. It had hooves instead of claws on its fingers
	11 STEGOSAURUS 'Roof Lizard' Lived during the Jurassic up 140-150 million years up Don't annoy this two-tonne heavyweight or cell it pea-brained! But it was pretty brainless - its brain was only as big as a walnut The clumsy - slow-moving Stegosaurus (steg-oh-sore-us) may have seemed defenceless against fierce meat -eaters. but It could take care of itself! It had long - deadly tail spikes which it would sink into the flesh of a dinosaur that wanted to make a meal of it. ho dia-mond-shaped back plates may have boon used to regulate its temperature - we really don't know for sure
	12 PTERANODON 'Winged & Toothless' Lived during the Cretaceous age 65-135 million years ago Swooping low over the Cretaceous sea - Pteranodon avoids the laws of u leaping Mosasaurus (Meuse Lizard) Though Pteranodon (terr-av-o-don) was a species of closely related rep-tile - it wasn't a true dinosaur. Its wing spun was massive - up to 7m - and it would save spent most of its time gliding over the waves - searching for food. it may have had a pouch beneath its long pointed beak to scoop up fish - like a pelican does today.
	13 IGUANODON 'lguana Tooth' Lived during the Cretaceous age 135-110 million years ago This gentle giant was not going to stand around waiting to be eaten it had a mean thumbnail! This was 40cm long and very sharp. The thumb spike was a lethal weapon which t could use to slush predators. Iguanodon (i-gwuh-no-don) was 9m long (as long us a bus) and nearly twice as tall as a person. It lived in herds for protection - and moved around from one urea to another in search of fresh grazing.
	14 DEINONYCHUS 'Terrible Claw' Lived during the Cretaceous age 110 million years ago Vicious! Deinonychus seemed to have live up to its common name in a big way. It had truly frightening - 12cm-long terrible claws on to feet. This speedy carnivore may have hunted in packs. and would use its horrific hooks to tear hunks of flesh from its doomed victims. Deinonychus (die-non-i-kus) also had long - jagged teeth for tearing into the body of its prey. It wasn't a large dinosaur - about 3m long and 1.4m tall - a little shorter than an adult human. It had spindly legs and its long tail helped it to balance while it ran.
	15 CORYthOSAURUS 'Helmet Lizard' Lived during the Cretaceous age 75-90 million years ago Corythosaurus screams in terror as a Tyrannosarus looms in the back Corythosaurus (core-i-tho-sore-us) had a strange. hollow - crescent-shaped crest on top of its head. It belonged to a large fam-ily of 'duck-billed' dinosaurs which had unusually long beaks like a duck These 'bills' were used to strip leaves from trees It minced its hoed into tiny pieces with hundreds oh tiny teeth It was about 10m long with long back legs and shorter arms Its hands were suitable for both walking or grasping 65-76 million years ago.
	16 EUOPLOCEPHalUS 'Well-Armoured-Head' Lived during the Cretaceous age 70-80 million years ago Get a look at this tough customer! It was so well protected even its eyelids were armoured! It had thick bone plating right along its back and on its head. On top of this armour mere rows of short - blunt spikes - so it was virtually impossible for a flesh-eater to bite into Euoplo-cephalus (you-op-loh-keff-ah-luss). It also had a thick growth of bone on the end of its tail which it could swing like a baseball bat to beat off predators.
	17 TYRANNOSAURUS REX 'King of the Tyrant Reptiles' Lived during the Cretaceous age 65-70 million years age King of the monsters! Tyrannosaurus rex (tie-ran-so-tore-us) was terrifying ! The largest - most fearsome of all flesh-eating dinosaurs - it weighed up to two tonnes - as much a small truck! Standing upright - a fully-grown Tyrannosuarus reached 5m - nearly three times the height of an adult human. It ate plant-eating dinosaurs - It had a powerful body - an enormous head - long - sharp teeth and could have eaten a human in one or two bites!
	18 PACHYCEPHalOSARUS 'Thick-Headed-Lizard' Lived during the Cretaceous age 70-75 million years ago This head banger would give its attacker a real headache! Pachycephalosarus (pack-ee-seff-a-lo-sore-us) had a tremen-dously thick bone - like a helmet - on top of its skull. Rival male Pachycephalosari probably used the 25cm-thick bone to boom each other in fights to establish which would lead their herd. They might also have defended themselves from preda-tors by attacking them using their heads as powerful weapons. They grew to about 6m long and would have stood twice as tall as a fully grown man.
	19 ORNIthOMIMUS 'Bird Imitator' Lived during the Cretaceous age 65-75 million years ago Meet the fastest dinosaur - a hunter that moved at impressive speeds - up to 70kph. It had no teeth - but - as you can see - it used its horny bill to crack open eggs stolen from other dinosaurs. h might also have eaten fruit berries and insects. Ornithomimus (or-nith-ub-mime-us) gains its name from its bird-like appearance - with its graceful body - long neck and small head - It also had long arms with grasping hands - perfect for snatching at small prey. b was about 4m long and 2m tall - the same height as an ostrich
	20 trICERAtopS 'Three-horned Face' Lived during the Cretaceous age 65-76 million years ago Armoured like a tank Triceratops (Try--kerr-a-tops) is one oh the most famous plant-eating dinosaurs. I to heavy armour protected it from the most ferocious predators. About.9m long - it weighed up to six tonnes almost as much as a double decker bus. Its massive head had three horns which made fearsome weapons - and its neck and shoulders were covered with a huge bony frill used to protect it from attacks by giant flesh-eaters such as Tyrannosaurus.

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