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Why Did We Really Kill Dinosaurs?

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Why did all the dinosaur die forever and what killed them? Some scientists claim that most dinosaurs died out simply because they didn’t mange to adapt to the changing climate. Dinosaurs been died for over 65 million years ago. We know there are little dinosaurs still called lizards, alligators, and more. Some people ask what does the word dinosaur come from? It was originally defined to mean “fearfully great lizard” by Richard Owen in 1942. The Greek word dinos, when used as a superlative, means “fearfully lizard”. But were all dinosaurs mean? No there were only a few mean ones like an t-rex is an example of a mean one and example of a nice dinosaur is the Apatosaurus. Are all dinosaur’s omnivores yes, all dinosaurs are omnivores most of them …show more content…

velociraptor, Utah Raptor, Dionysus, Coelophysoids, Dilophosaurus, Oviraptor, Comptographs and Trogon, who ate eggs, small mammals, medium or small dinos, each other. T-rex, and paraurolopus, etc. ate large fish and all different meats that they could find. Tortoises live for up to 152 years and alligators live about 66 years. Dinosaurs live around 75 to 300 years on what they eat.
Dinosaurs tails were 22m long 4 high and weighted about 30 tons. Dinosaurs weigh about 4.4 tones to 9.9 tones just depending on there size. Dinosaurs have ears, but their ears are not like human ears. Dinosaurs had holes in their heads and that was there ears they had. The smallest dinosaur could run as fast as a race horse at 40 mph and 65 kilometers per hour. T-rex could only run 18 mph and 29 kilometers per hour. T-rex’s could open their mouths to a jaw-dropping gape up to 90 degrees. Dinosaurs killed each other for food. Or they would be killed when they were fighting during battle. Meat-eating dinosaurs are known as therapods. Because they had sharp hooked claws on there toes. The largest dinosaur eggs were as big as a basketball and dinosaurs babies would not be able to get out without help from their …show more content…

The stegosaurus brain is big as a walnut. The meat-eating dinosaurs walked on two feet. So that would make them faster so when they get to there prey they can grab them with there two tiny hands. Tyrannosaurus rex ate up to 22 tons of food every year. This jagged their teeth 6 inches and when that happened they couldn’t chew their food do they swallowed it in huge pieces. The Brachiosaurus was the tallest plant eater and its head was 39 feet of the ground. The Therizinosaurus had the largest claws up to 3 feet and 1-meter long. 40% Americans believe that dinosaurs and humans lived at the same

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