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Ducksters: Dinosaurs for Kids
Dinosaurs: Kids learn about these ancient animals that wondered the Earth thousands of years ago. We know about them from studying fossils.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Facts About the Jurassic Period
The Jurassic Period falls within the Mesozoic Era. Read about geologic events that occurred then, the climate, and the plants and animals, including the many types of dinosaurs.
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Pocantico Hills School: Meet the Dinosaurs
What do other kids know and love about dinosaurs? Here's an exciting place to compare what you know about the "terrible lizards", and to learn more from this school site.
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Success Link: Dinosaur Corners
A short lesson plan for early elementary students to help them recognize four major dinosaurs. Use the provided drawings of the dinosaurs to make posters for students to identify.
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Clever Island: Dinosaurs
This primary age website requires no reading to construct the jigsaw dinosaur puzzle out of six pieces. The instructions are all spoken by the cartoon characters. Children can then watch a cartoon where one character goes back in time...
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Mocomi: Dinosaur Facts and Information
Read a brief history of dinosaurs and how fossils are formed. Learn about the three main dinosaur periods, plant-eating dinosaurs, meat-eating dinosaurs, the end of dinosaurs, and other interesting facts.
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Dinosaurs' End, the Gravitational Hypothesis
The author of this site feels that there are too many problems with the current theories for why dinosaurs became extinct. He believes that his gravitational hypothesis is the correct answer, the dinosaurs suddenly got too heavy.
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Scientists Say Star Collision Caused Dinosaur Extinction
"Israeli scientists have a new theory on why the dinosaurs became extinct: cosmic radiation that bombarded the Earth following the collision of two neutron stars." This article discusses the details of the theory.
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Sedl: Extinction
This second lesson in a course on dinosaurs is devoted to extinction. There are group activities, discussion of the idea, and a way to assess what the students have learned.
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Stegasaurus From the Bbc Series Walking With Dinosaurs
This resource identifies and describes a comprehensive list of prehistoric dinosaurs. In each description students will find a picture, facts, a chart of information and more.
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Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
This resource identifies and describes a comprehensive list of prehistoric dinosaurs. In each description students will find a picture, facts, a chart of information and more.
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Science Kids: Science Images: Ankylosaurus Skeleton
This picture shows the restoration of an Ankylosaurus skeleton from side on. Ankylosaurus was a bulky dinosaur that lived at the end of the Cretaceous Period (around 66 million years ago). For more information on this interesting...
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Science Kids: Science Images: Ankylosaurus Skull
This picture gives a close up view of an Ankylosaurus skull. Ankylosaurus was a strongly armored ornithischian dinosaur that lived in North America. This specific specimen was found in the Edmonton formation of Alberta, Canada. For more...
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Science Kids: Science Images: Argentinosaurus Skeleton
This picture shows a reconstruction of an Argentinosaurus skeleton in a special exhibition of the Naturmuseum Senckenberg (a natural history museum in Frankfurt, Germany). Argentinosaurus was a massive Sauropod dinosaur from the mid...
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Science Kids: Science Images: Brachiosaurus Skeleton
This picture shows a reconstruction of a Brachiosaurus skeleton. Brachiosaurus was part of a family of huge dinosaurs known as Sauropods, it reached around 26 metres (85 feet) in length and lived in North America. For more information on...
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Science Kids: Science Images: Amargasaurus Skeleton
This picture shows a mounted skeleton of Amargasaurus, a Sauropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period (around 130 million years ago). Amargasaurus was small for a Sauropod and featured two rows of spines down its neck and back....
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Science Kids: Science Images: Deinonychus Skeleton
This picture shows the skull and spine of a scary looking Deinonychus skeleton, the photo was taken at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. Deinonychus was related to the Velociraptor and lived during the early Cretaceous Period...
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Science Kids: Science Images: Dinosaur Leg Bones
This picture shows two dinosaur leg bones. Figure 1 shows the right humerus of a Mandschurosaurus while figure 2 shows the right ulna of the same dinosaur. The photo was taken against a white background. For more interesting information...
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Science Kids: Science Images: Dinosaur Egg
This picture shows a fossilized dinosaur egg. Just below the dinosaur egg is a ruler to help get an idea of its size. Dinosaur eggs have been found at over 200 different sites around the world. For more interesting information on...
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Science Kids: Science Images: Dinosaur Eggs
This picture shows a pair of fossilized dinosaur eggs. They were found in Kaoguo Formation, Henan, China and were photographed while on display at the San Diego County Fair, California, USA. Dinosaur eggs vary in size depending on the...
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Science Kids: Science Images: Dinosaur Footprint
This picture shows a fossilized dinosaur footprint found in the Lower Jurassic Moenave Formation in Utah, USA. Named Eubrontes, these types of footprints date from the late Triassic Period to the early Jurassic Period and are identified...
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Science Kids: Science Images: Dinosaur Poop
This picture shows a sample of fossilized dinosaur poop. Fossilized animal dung is also known as coprolite. This particular sample was found in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada. For more interesting information on dinosaur fossils check...
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Science Kids: Science Images: Dinosaur Track
This picture shows the imprint of a large dinosaur track left in the ground. Dinosaur tracks are found all over the world and help give scientists a better understanding of dinosaur behaviour and anatomy.
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Science Kids: Science Images: Edmontosaurus Skeleton
This picture shows a reconstruction of an Edmontosaurus skeleton. Edmontosaurus was a crestless, duck-billed dinosaur that lived in the late Cretaceous Period (around 70 million years ago). The first Edmontosaurus fossils were found in...