The Mystery Dinosaur: Sails and Spines

I am going to give you facts about a dinosaur and you will have to guess what it is.

Warning! Don't just scroll down. Guess First.

I live Texas and Oklahoma and I am 30 feet long and 18 feet tall. I travel alone and my name means High Spined lizard. My weight is 3 tons. My speed is 25 mph.

Am I:

A. Irritator

B. Spinosaurus

C. Acrocanthosaurus

D. Suchomimus

Did you guess Acrocanthosaurus? Good! That was the right answer.

Spinosaurus

I like the Spinosaurus so this is why I am righting about him.

Spinosaurus had a crocodile like skull and a sail on its back. The sail on the Spinosaurus's back is more than 6 feet high!

meaning: spine lizard

time: cretaceous

diet: meat

lived: Egypt

Colorado Springs Dinosaur Museum

My family and I went to a dinosaur museum in Woodland Park, Colorado. We drove passed the museum on our long road trip, so we decided to check it out. There were many interesting fossils, and they came in a variety of shapes and sizes. Here are some photos of what we saw.

A map of the early Cretaceous period.

This is me standing by a dinosaur fossil

Utahraptors hunt big herbivores, like the Iguanodon. They used the big claw on their feet to scratch open prey.

The Pteranodon was a large flying reptile that lived near the ocean. It ate fish and squid. It had a wing span of thirty five feet from tip to tip.

This is one of several dinosaur museums that I've been to around the world. Stay tuned for more posts about the other museums I visited.

Diplodocus

A Diplodocus body is slightly bigger than an elephant's body. Baby Diplodocus gains 5 pounds each day. That means, that after each year, they gain half a ton.




Name Means: double-beam

Period: Jurassic

Diet: plants

lived: USA

Dinosaur hip bones.

Dinosaurs are divided in two major groups saurischian which is lizard hipped and ornithischian which is bird hipped.

Dinosaur Facts

Eustreptospondylus

length: 23 feet

lived: England

diet: meat


Ornitholestes

length: 7 feet

weight: 33 pounds

lived: North America

diet: meat

Megalosaurus

lived: England

weight: 2,000 pounds

diet: meat

Dinosaur Facts

Here is some facts about dinosaurs.

Dilophsaurus (the one in the back)

Length: 40 feet

Weight: 12 000 pounds

Lived: North America during early Jurassic Period

Diet: Meat.

Baryonyx (the dinosaur in front)

Length: 30 feet

Lived: England during early Cretaceous Period

Diet: Meat

Velociraptor (the purple dinosaur)

Length: 5 feet

Weight: 65 pounds

Lived: Asia, China, Mongolia during late Cretaceous Period.

Diet: Meat

T-Rex (the brown dinosaur in the back)

Length: 40 feet

Weight: 12 000 pounds

Lived: North America during late Cretaceous period

Diet: Meat

Spinosaurus ( the green dinosaur in the back)

Length: 46 feet

Weight: 6 000 pounds

Lived: Egypt during Cretaceous

Diet: Meat

This is a T-Rex trying to eat me and my sister but luckily we managed to get away.

Styracosarurus

Length: 18 feet

Lived: Canada during the late Cretaceous period.

Diet: Plants