Imagine an animal with teeth as big as bananas – and a brain as big as an orange. Or a flying animal with wings as wide as a small plane. Think about a tail that could knock a man’s head off, or a mouth with hundreds of teeth. Is it any surprise that people are interested in dinosaurs?
Nobody has ever seen a living dinosaur, but millions of us go every year to stare at the bones of these enormous animals. In books, films and games, we can’t get enough of the secrets of the dinosaur world …
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Glossary
- archosaur: a very early kind of dinosaur
- attract: to make somebody like something
- bear: a big wild animal with thick fur
- bone: one of the hard white parts inside the body of an animal; (adj) bony
- brain: the part of the head that thinks and remembers
- breathe: to take air in through your nose or mouth
- club: a heavy stick with one thick end, used as a weapon
- cold-blooded: having a body temperature that changes as the air or water temperature changes
- continent: a very large area of land, e.g. Africa
- crocodile: a big animal with a long tail and a big mouth with sharp teeth
- defend: to fight to keep away things that attack
- dung: solid waste from animals
- Earth: the world
- elephant: a very big wild animal from Africa or Asia, with a long nose that hangs down
- enormous: very big
- evolve: to change slowly over time
- female: belonging to the sex that can have babies
- fossil: part of a dead plant or animal that has changed to rock over a long time; (v)
- fossilize: to become a fossil
- herd: a big group of animals of the same kind
- hollow: with an empty space inside
- huge: very big
- human: a person, not an animal or machine
- hunt: to chase animals and kill them
- iguana: a large American lizard
- imagine: to make a picture of something in your mind
- insect: a very small animal that has six legs
- jaw: one of the two bones in the head that hold the teeth
- lay: (past tense laid) to bring an egg out of the body
- lion: a large wild animal of the cat family
- lizard: a small animal that has four legs and a long tail
- male: belonging to the sex that cannot have babies
- mammal: an animal that drinks milk from its mother’s body when it is young
- model: a copy of something
- mouse: a small animal with a long tail
- museum: a place where you can look at old or interesting things
- nest: a place where a bird or snake keeps its eggs and its babies
- ornithiscian: a plant-eating dinosaur with very thick skin
- period: an amount of time
- rhinoceros: a big animal with thick skin and a horn on its nose
- sand: very small pieces of rock that you find on beaches
- sauropod: a big plant-eating dinosaur with a long neck and tail
- scientist: a person who studies natural things
- sharp: with a point that cuts or makes holes easily
- snake: an animal with a long thin body and no legs
- theropod: a meat-eating dinosaur
- up to: as much as or as many as
- victim: someone who suffers as the result of a crime
- volcano: a mountain with a hole in the top where fire and gas sometimes come out
- warm-blooded: having a body temperature that does not change when the air or water temperature changes
- weight: how heavy something is; (v) weigh
- wound: a hurt place in the body