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Dinosaur Songs
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| I'm Bringing Home a Baby Dinosaur Tune: "Baby Bumble Bee" I'm bringing home a baby dinosaur, I'm bringing home a baby dinosaur,
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The Dinosaur Song Tune: "The Wheels on the Bus"
The Tyrannosaurus Rex had great
big teeth,
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The Dinosaur Song Tune: "London Bridge is Falling Down" Dinosaurs lived long ago, Tyronnosaurus was a carnivore, Apatosaurus was a herbivore,
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| Dinosaurs Lived Long Ago Tune: "London Bridge is Falling
Down" Tyrannosaurus was very mean,
very mean, Very mean, Brontosaurus was very big, very
big, very big, Stegosaurus wore heavy spikes,
heavy spikes, heavy spikes, Triceratops had big sharp
horns, big sharp horns, big sharp horns, Pterodactyl could fly in the
air, fly in the air, fly in the air, All the Dinosaurs disappeared,
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Dino-Pokey Tune: "The Hokey Pokey" You put your claws in, Additional Verses: teeth in tail in
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Tyrannosaurus Rex Tune: "Mary Had A Little Lamb" Dinosaurs walked on this earth, Tyrannosaurus Rex was king, Tyrannosaurus (child's name)
was king, |
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Dinosaur Poems
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Dinosaur Bones
Action poem by Nancy Klein Let's look for bones, Back to the lab, Put them together, |
Pretend
Action poem by Nancy Klein Spread your arms, way out
wide, Bend to the floor, head
down low, Reach up tall, try to be
Use your claws, grumble and growl Just like Tyrannosaurus on the prowl. |
Five Enormous Dinosaurs Anonymous Five enormous dinosaurs, Four enormous dinosaurs, Three enormous dinosaurs, Two enormous dinosaurs, One enormous dinosaur,
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Thinking about
Dinosaurs
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Do you
wish dinosaurs were still living today? Explain. How do we know all that we know about dinosaurs today? How are certain animals living today similar to the dinosaurs of the past? Why do you think dinosaurs became extinct? |
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Dinosaurs Facts
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Dinosaurs Crafts
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| Dinosaur craft |
| Dinosaur alphabet |
| Dinosaurs Printouts |
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Dinosaurs Pictures
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| Dinosaur pictures gallery |
| Pictures Dino directory a-z |
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Dinosaurs Activities
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Dinosaurs Games
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Dinosaurs Books
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Digging Up
Dinosaurs by Aliki An Alphabet of Dinosaurs by Peter Dodson American Museum of Natural History: On the trail of Incredible Dinosaurs by William Lindsay Asteroid Impact by Douglas Henderson The Best Book of Fossils, Rocks and Minerals by Chris Pellant Beyond the Dinosaurs by Howard Zimmerman The Big Book of Dinosaurs by Robert Walters The Big Book of Dinosaurs: A First Book for Young Children by Angela Wilkes Bill Nye the Science Guy's Great Big Dinosaur Dig Dinosaur Bones by Bob Barner Dinosaur Discovery: Facts, Fossils, and Fun by Daniel Cohen Dinosaur Encyclopedia by David Lambert The Encyclopedia of Awesome Dinosaurs by Michael Benton How Big Were the Dinosaurs? by Bernard Most How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? by Jane Yolen, Mark Teague |
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Links
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| Dinosauria |
| Dinosaur exhibits |
| More Dinosaurs Links |
| The Official Dino Land Website |
| Dinosaurs |
| Billy bear dinosaurs |
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Paleontologist
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| Paleontologist |
| Paleontologist Lab |
| Dino Land Species by species photo List |
| Dinosaurs Exposition Fossils pictures |
| Discovering Dinosaurs |
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Dinosaur
Classification
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| Name | Diet | Length | Height | Weight | Period | Where it Lived |
| DIPLODOCUS
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Herbivore (plant-eater) |
90 feet
(27 m) long |
16 ft (5 m) tall at the hips | 10-20 tons | Late Jurassic period, about 155-145 million years ago | In the Rocky Mountains of the western USA (in Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming). |
| TRICERATOPS
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Herbivore (plant-eater) |
30 feet
(9 m) long |
7 ft (2 m) tall at the hips | up to 6-12 tons | Late Cretaceous period, about 72-65 million years ago | In western Canada and the western United States, North America. |
| BRONTOSAURUS "thunder lizard"
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Herbivore (plant-eater) | 70-90 feet (21-27 m) long |
10-15 feet
(3-4.6 m) tall at the hips |
33-38 tons | Late Jurassic period, about 157-146 million years ago | In Colorado, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming, in the USA, North America. |
| ALLOSAURUS
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Carnivore
(meat-eater) |
about 40 ft
(12 m) long |
10 ft (3 m) tall at the hips | up to 4.5 tons | Late Jurassic period, about 150-140 million years ago | In Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, S. Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming, North America, in Portugal, Europe, and perhaps Tanzania, Africa and Australia. |
| IGUANODON
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Herbivore (plant-eater) |
20-33 ft
(6-10 m) long |
9 ft (2.7 m)
tall at the hips |
4-5 tons | Cretaceous period, about 135-125 million years ago | In Europe (in England, Belgium, and Germany), northern Africa, and the USA. |
| PTERANODON
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Carnivore
(meat-eater) |
Wingspan
25-33 foot (7.8-10 m) long |
Standing Height 6 ft (1.8 m) tall at the hips |
55 pounds (25 kg) | Late Cretaceous period, about 85-75 million years ago. | In Kansas, USA, North America and in England, Europe. |
| STEGOSAURUS
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Herbivore (plant-eater) | 26-30 feet long (8-9 m) long | 9 feet (2.75 m) tall at the hips | 6,800 pounds (3100 kg) | Late Jurassic period, about 156-140 million years ago | In Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, USA, North America. |
| TYRANNOSAURUS REX
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Carnivore (meat-eater) | 40 feet (12.4 m) long | 15 to 20 feet (4.6 to 6 m) tall | 5 to 7 tons | Late Cretaceous period, about 85-65 million years ago | In the USA (in Montana, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming), Canada (Alberta and Saskatchewan), and east Asia (Mongolia) |
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The average
dinosaur was no bigger than a station wagon. The smallest dinosaur was no
bigger than a robin.
The largest
was 3 schoolbuses long. 
Dinosaurs lived on the South Pole Dinosaurs lived everywhere on the
land. There was no snow on the poles then. 
Half of all the
kinds of dinosaurs known have been found in the last 20 years.
Dinosaurs started
small Even the largest dinosaur egg is far smaller than the largest bird
egg. Giant dinosaurs had eggs less than 6 inches across. 
