DINOSAUR QUESTIONS
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A: I have an information sheet on Lesothosaurus - click here to see it.
Mamenchisaurus was a long-necked, long-tailed, quadrupedal, plant-eating sauropod from the late Jurassic period, about 156 to 145 million years ago. It was about 70 feet (21 m) long. Mamenchisaurus had the longest neck of any known dinosaur, about 46 feet (14 m). It had 19 vertebrae in its spine, more than any other known dinosaur. Mamenchisaurus was named by Chung Chien Young, a Chinese paleontologist, in 1954. Fossils have been found in China. Mamenchisaurus may be closely related to Diplodocus.
A: Click here for my information sheet on Triceratops that will answer your questions.
Q: ?Por que al Triceratops le dicen "Lagarto de garra terrible"?
A: Triceratops name means "Three-horned head." Deinonychus is the dinosaur whose name means "Terrible claw lizard" because it has a huge, knife-like, retractible claw on each foot.
A: Triceratops fossils have been found in what is now the western United States and Canada. For more information on Triceratops, click here.
A: There is some disagreement about this. Some paleontologists (notably Ostrom and Welnhoffer, 1990) believe there is one species, Triceratops horridus. Others believe that there are two (C. Forster, 1996) or more species, including: Triceratops horridus, Triceratops prorsus, Triceratops albertensis, Triceratops ingens, Triceratops alticornis, and perhaps others.
Q:Can you tell me everything you know about the triceratops? If not, then can you give me some web pages that have alot of info on the triceratops? Please, I really need this for a school report!Thanks
A: The social behavior of prehistoric creatures is mostly unknown and deduced from fossil remains. Ceratopsians (which include Triceratops) were probably herding animals. This hypothesis is supported by the finding of bone beds, large deposits of bones of the same species in an area.
A: Tyrannosaurus rex was about 20 feet (6.2 m) tall (from head to foot) and over 40 feet (12.4 m) long (from snout to tip of tail). For more information on Tyrannosaurus rex, click here.
A: Most of T. rex's skull was jaws. These huge jaws were up to 4-feet (1.2 m) long. T. rex had over 60 sharp teeth in these jaws. For more information on T. rex, click here.
Q:Was there a bigger carnivore than Tyranosaurus Rex ?
A: T. Rex was a carnivore - a meat-eater. For an information page on T. rex, click here.
Q:I know that T-Rex's mated with T-Rex's, but did they also mate with Triceratops too?
A: T. rex lived during the late Cretaceous period, a time of great geological and climate changes. There was a lot of volcanic activity, increased continental drift changed the face of the Earth (the supercontinent Pangaea was breaking up), global cooling and the formation of polar ice and increased seasonal extremes, and finally, a catastrophic asteroid that hit the Earth at the end of the Cretaceous, causing extreme climactic changes (cooling, acid rain, atmospheric gas changes, etc.) and a mass extinction. For more information on the Cretaceous period, click here. For more information on T. rex click here.
A: T. rex fossils have been found in what is now the USA (in Montana, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming), Canada (Alberta and Saskatchewan), and east Asia (Mongolia). T. rex went extinct 65 million years ago in the huge K-T mass extinction. For more information on T. rex, click here.
A: Tyrannosaurus rex was about 20 feet (6.2 m) tall (from head to foot) and over 40 feet (12.4 m) long (from snout to tip of tail). T. rex died out 65 million years ago during a mass extinction in which many other dinosaur species also became extinct. The life span of a T. rex is not known. For more information on T. rex, click here.
Q: Is there any way of telling what colour a T-Rex might have been ?
Q:In which countries of the world, have the bones of a Tyrannosaurus rex been found?
Q: WHAT WAS THE LIFESPAN OF A TYRANNOSAURUS REX ?
A: Tyrannosaurus rex was at the top of the food chain when it lived, during the late Cretaceous period. Only the very young, injured and diseased T. rex's were vulnerable to attack from other large predators or groups of smaller predators. For more information on Tyrannosaurus rex, click here.
A: Tyrannosaurus rex lived during the late Cretaceous period, about 85 to 65 million years ago. Fossils have been found in the western USA (in Montana, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming), Canada (Alberta and Saskatchewan), and Asia (Mongolia).
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Q: Was the T-rex afraid of anything?
A: T. rex was pretty much at the top of the food chain; its enemies were tiny bugs, like bacteria and viruses which could kill it with disease. T. rex fossils have been found in the USA (in Montana, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming), Canada (Alberta and Saskatchewan), and east Asia (in Mongolia). For more information on Tyrannosaurus rex, click here.
A: Tyrannosaurus rex was about 20 feet (6.2 m) tall (from head to foot) and over 40 feet (12.4 m) long (from snout to tip of tail).
A: Paleontologists (notably Jack Horner) have recently begun to question
whether T. rex could have been an effective hunter, given its small
eyes, puny arms, and relatively slow gait. An alternative would be that
T. rex scavenged its food from other animals' kills. Scavengers need a
good sense of smell (to find meat) and means of long-distance
locomotion (to get to the meat). There is evidence that T. rex had an
acute sense of smell (deduced from room in its skull for large
olfactory lobes in its brain). Also, T. rex's large legs would provide
ample means of long-distance locomotion. There are arguments against
this scavenger hypothesis. Small eyes do not imply poor vision. Birds,
dinosaurs' descendants, have relatively small eyes and acute vision. As
for T. rex's puny arms, arms are not necessary for predation; many
predators have no arms at all, for example, sharks and snakes. As for
T. rex's slow gait, there were many animals that were slower than T.
rex; these would become its prey, not the speedier types.
A: T rex lived during the late Cretaceous period (85-65 million years ago), was a carnivore ( a meat eater) and may have either killed prey or scavenged meat (there is currently a debate about the source of its meat). It had bumpy skin (fossils of T. rex skin imprints have been found). Click here for a lot more information about T. rex.
A: Tyrannosaurus rex belonged to the family of Tyrannosaurids (meaning "tyrant lizards"). They were large, heavy carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaurs that walked on two strong legs, had long teeth, had tiny arms with 2 fingers and long claws. They lived during the late Cretaceous period. Other Tyrannosaurids include Albertosaurus, Tarbosaurus, Alectrosaurus, Shanshanosaurus, Stygivenator, Alioramus, Chingkankousaurus, Daspletosaurus, Maleevosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Siamotyrannus, and many others.
? A: No one knows what color Tyrannosaurus rex or any other prehistoric, extinct creature was. People guess that they had coloration similar to other reptiles, but that is just speculation. A: T-Rex's feet were massive, about 2-4 feet (0.6-1 m) long. Its toes had claws that were up to 8 inches (20 cm) long.
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