The Basic
Okay this is basic. Here are some of the most common dinosaurs:
T-Rex (Tarana Saures Rex), Brontasauraes (Long Neck), Three Horn (Tryceratops),
and Stegasauras and Raptors.
T-Rexs are some of the most dangerous dinosaurs that have walked the Earth.
They were meat-eaters and very dangerous. If you went near them you would
be in great danger. But the T-Rexs also had a disadvantage because they
were so big they feared water and couldn't run fast. But T-Rexs did have a
fine sent of smell. They could smell prey from a mile away, or longer.
Brontasauraes are leaf-eaters and prey of the T-Rex's. A Brontasauraes is
extremely gentle and will only attack if it believs you are attacking it. The
Brontasaures has a very long tail simmiliar to its neck. It uses its tail to whip
the T-Rex in self defense.
Three Horns or Tryceratops are also leaf eaters but a different type. They
have three horns to defend themselves from meat-eaters. They are also
a foe of the T-Rex. However Three Horns can easily beat a T-Rex with its
horns if it has a chance to stab the attacker in his stomach. Three Horns
also have horns very sharper than knives.
Stegasaures' have plates on their backs to protect themselves from meat-eaters
for they are also leaf eaters. The plates can also cool them from the hot sun. They
use the back of their tail with sharp plates that are sharper than knives to defend itself.
The Raptors are meat-eaters like the T-Rexs. They use their three sharp toe-nails
to attack prey. They also three sharp finger nails to help them. Raptors are very small
which makes it easy for them to get their prey. They are very fast and can easily run
out any big meat eater and catch and leaf eater which it wants. The Raptor also uses
its thumb--its thumb is its largest and sharpest claw. It has one on each side of its body.
It often uses its thumb nail to attack its prey.
Okay that's the basics. If you want me to add anything please E-mail me at JAdaveyo6@aol.com...
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Afrovenator abakensis
"Hunter from In Abaka, Africa" Niger 1993
Sickle-clawed three-fingered hands
2-inch long bladelike teeth
30 feet long
Predator
Uncovered in Niger's "dinosaurs' graveyard", this 130 million-year-old specimen is the most complete skeleton of a Cretaceous carnivore ever found in Africa. Before the discovery of afrovenator, many scientists thought that by 130 million years ago the supercontinent Pangaea had already split into two distinct land masses, one north and one south. But afrovenator's closest relation is to Allosaurus, a North American dinosaur, rather than to any dinosaurs from the southern land mass of South America. Afrovenator's relatedness to the northern allosaurus implies a connection between pangaea's halves may have lasted many millions of years longer than the previously accepted 150 million years ago.
Sereno has said in Science magazine that based on the discovery of both afrovenator and deltadromeus, "I think there was some kind of a tenuous land bridge [linking Africa and Europe] for several million years after" the initial breakup of Pangaea. "That bridge prevented the evolution, in isolation, of a unique southern dinosaur fauna."
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