Changes: Dinosaurs

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They were towering, tiny, friendly, and fierce. They were dinosaurs, the most extraordinary creatures on our planet in the past. First evolving from 230 million years ago and becoming extinct around 66 million years ago. How do we know about their size, their feeding habits, their habitat and their extinction, palentologists (a scientist who studies fossils) have found thousands of their skeletons worldwide. Now thanks to modern technology, sci- films, and documentaries, we actually have an idea of what looked liked and how they behaved. Now here's your chance to some learning of your own.

How to use the dino guide.

Click on one of these time periods during the Mesozic Era, the time of the dinosaurs, and study on over 40 species of these magestic reptiles. Learn about everything from their feeding habits, to their characteristics and their place in pop culture ( movies, tv shows, etc.).

Triassic Period (252.1 - 201. 3 million years ago)

Jurassic Period (201.3 - 154 million years ago)

Early Cretaceous (145-100 million years ago)

Late Cretaceous (100 - 65 million years ago)

Flesh on the Bones

This paragraph will describe what the animals would have looked like when their skeleton is complete is with muscles and skin, however color is just a matter of guess work.

Different Types of Dinosaurs

Besides herbivores and carnivores, there are 5 groups of these creatures. Those groups are theropods (walking on two legs), Sauropodomorphs (long legged herbivores), Thyreophorans ("shield bearers", plates or large scales on back, clubs or spikes on tale), Ornithopods (hadrosaurs), and Marginocephalians (hard heads made of bone, three horns and a frill or ceratopsins).

The Right Environment

This paragraph will exaime the animals environmental standards. Even though we don't know what the environments looked like, we could have a guess of what they looked like.

New Calenodia - Triassic Period
Redwood Forest of California - Jurassic Period
Ashfields and Araucaria forest in Chile, Cretaceous Period

On the Move

With the skeleton fully covered with muscle and skin, its time to put them on the move. Inside the computer, the skeletons are put into practice as the walk, run, swim and fly again. Once they're walking again, they're being put back into their environment. They may be suitable in there habitats, but how will they survive?

Feeding Time

Basically there are two feeding habits that the dinosaurs have, the herbivores have devised ways to break down the toughest plant material. Since grass never evolved in the Mesozic Era, these are the three plants that the plant eaters had to eat.

Going Hunting

To understand how the carnivores should requires a different strategy, there food didnt grow on trees so the key question was: "How did they hunt?" By judging the skeletons and research, there are four ways that the carnivores could've hunted and killed their prey.

Love, Not War

Every dinosaur is different, but not when it comes to battling for or attracting a mate.

Videos

These videoes can be helpful for children. Worksheets to the videos will be up A.S.A.P..

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+===The Right Environment===
-===<span style="font-size:16px;">Feeding Habits</span>===
-This paragraph will exaime the animals diet from herbivores to carnivores. Herbivores can eat any kind of plant matter around them. Carnivores can eat just about anything that's alive. However, what exactly did they eat and how much did they eat in a day, a week or even a month.
+This paragraph will exaime the animals environmental standards. Even though we don't know what the environments looked like, we could have a guess of what they looked like.
-===<gallery widths="251">
+===<gallery widths="200">
+Landscape 01.jpg|New Calenodia - Triassic Period
-Carnivores.gif|Carnivores
+Jurassic forest.jpg|Redwood Forest of California - Jurassic Period
-Herbivores.gif|Herbivores
+Chile.jpg|Ashfields and Araucaria forest in Chile, Cretaceous Period
 </gallery>===
-====Plants and Hunting Stragties====
+===On the Move===
+With the skeleton fully covered with muscle and skin, its time to put them on the move. Inside the computer, the skeletons are put into practice as the walk, run, swim and fly again. Once they're walking again, they're being put back into their environment. They may be suitable in there habitats, but how will they survive?
-For the herbivores, any type of plants around them can be suitable for their stomachs. Here the three favorite plants for them to eat..
+<gallery>
+Computer Model.jpeg|Tyrannosaurus "Chicken Wire" Model
+King on the Move again.gif|Tyrannosaurus walking again
+Male looking for food..gif|King is home.
+</gallery>
+<span style="font-size:16px;">Feeding Time</span>
+Basically there are two feeding habits that the dinosaurs have, the herbivores have devised ways to break down the toughest plant material. Since grass never evolved in the Mesozic Era, these are the three plants that the plant eaters had to eat.
 <gallery>
 Conifers.jpg|Conifers
-Gingko plant.jpg|Gingkos
 Ferns.jpg|Ferns
+Gingko plant.jpg|Ginkos
 </gallery>
+<span style="font-size:16px;">Going Hunting</span>
+To understand how the carnivores should requires a different strategy, there food didnt grow on trees so the key question was: "How did they hunt?" By judging the skeletons and research, there are four ways that the carnivores could've hunted and killed their prey.
+===Love, Not War===
-For carnivores, they must any kind of meat possible. However, to kill their prey, they must use different hunting tecqhinces.
+Every dinosaur is different, but not when it comes to battling for or attracting a mate.
-<gallery widths="195">
+<gallery>
-Hunting.gif|Ambush Technique
+Rexy Hunt.gif|Ambush Attack
-Dilophosaurus Spit.gif|Biological Weapons
+Dilophosaurus Spit.gif|Biological Weapon
 Late Night Hunting.gif|Working in a pack
-Carnotaur Attack 02.gif|Exhausting their prey
+Carnotaur Attack 02.gif|Chase down and exhaust their prey.
 </gallery>
-===<span style="font-size:16px;">Reproduction and Parental Care Habits</span>===
-This paragraph will document every animals reproductive cycle and their way of taking care of their young. So how exactly do males attract females, how many eggs can the females lay and how long can young grow into a mature adult.
-===<gallery widths="268" orientation="square">
-Dinner Time.gif|Mother Tyrannosaurus
-</gallery>===
-===Pop Culture ===
-This paragraph shall interview the creatures and how they became big bloodthirsty monsters in film history. Here's the movies and tv shows in which these animals have appeared...
-If you don't know what these are about, click on each of them and find their story.
-===<gallery orientation="none" widths="230" spacing="small" bordercolor="accent" captiontextcolor="#27bb0a" navigation="true">
-Jurassic Park Main photo.gif|Jurassic Park (1993)
-Lost World Jurassic Park.jpg|The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
-Jurassic Park III.jpg|Jurassic Park III (2001)
-Jurassic World Main Photo.gif|Jurassic World (2015)|link=Jurassic World
-Jurassic Park Operation Genesis.jpg|Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis (2003)
-Prehistoric Park Main Picture.gif|Prehistoric Park (2006)
-Walking with Dinosaurs BBC.jpg|Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)
-Chased by Dinosaurs.jpg|Chased by Dinosaurs (2003)
-Sea Monsters.jpg|Sea Monsters (2003)
-Dinosaur King.jpg|Dinosaur King (2005)
-</gallery>===