All about dinosaurs

1.

2.

What Do We Know About
Dinosaurs?
Do you know anything about dinosaurs?
Do you know what dinosaurs liked to eat?
Are dinosaurs still alive now?
Do you have a favourite type
of dinosaur?

3.

What Is a
Dinosaur?
Dinosaurs lived all over the world in all sorts of different places, such
as deserts, forests and swamps.
Most dinosaurs laid eggs and built large
nests to keep their eggs safe.
Dinosaurs lived on Earth for a very
long time, but they aren’t alive
anymore. They became
extinct around 65
million years ago.
Did You Know…?
The word extinct means no longer
existing. Dinosaurs are extinct as
there are no longer any
dinosaurs alive
on Earth.

4.

What Did
Dinosaurs Eat?
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meat
eggs
fish
insects
…depending on what type of dinosaur
they were. Scientists think that most
dinosaurs ate plants.

5.

What Did
Dinosaurs Eat?
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means I ate meat.
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6.

Different Types
of Dinosaur
Stegosaurus
Tyrannosaurus
rex
Velociraptor
Diplodocus
Parasaurolophus
Can you name any other types of dinosaurs?
Triceratops

7.

How Do We Know About
Dinosaurs?
Paleontologists are people who
study dinosaurs and other living
things that lived a long time ago.

8.

How Do We Know About
Dinosaurs?
Palaeontologists have to look for
and explore clues from when
dinosaurs were alive. They might
look at things that are left behind
on Earth from dinosaurs, such as:
bones and
skeletons
teeth
fossils
footprints

9.

What Happened
to Dinosaurs?
We do not know exactly
what happened all of those millions
of years ago to make dinosaurs become extinct.
People have different ideas about things that might have
happened on Earth that meant all of the dinosaurs died.
asteroid
disease
volcanic
eruption
earth became
too cold
What do you think happened to dinosaurs to make
them become extinct?

10.

What Happened
to Dinosaurs?
We do not know exactly
what happened all of those millions
of years ago to make dinosaurs become extinct.
People have different ideas about things that might have
happened on Earth that meant all of the dinosaurs died.
asteroid
disease
volcanic
eruption
earth became
too cold
What do you think happened to dinosaurs to make
them become extinct?

11.

Fun Facts About
Dinosaurs!
There were more than
700 species of dinosaur.
The word dinosaur means ‘monstrous lizard’ in Greek.
It is believed that dinosaurs were on Earth for more
than 165 million years!
Dinosaurs were all sorts of different sizes. They
could've been tall or small and heavy or light.
Dinosaurs had very small brains. It is believed their
brains were about the size of a lime!
Some dinosaurs had feathers.

12.

Fun Facts About
Dinosaurs!
There were more than
700 species of dinosaur.
The word dinosaur means ‘monstrous lizard’ in Greek.
It is believed that dinosaurs were on Earth for more
than 165 million years!
Dinosaurs were all sorts of different sizes. They
could’ve been tall, small, heavy or light.
Dinosaurs had very small brains. It is believed their
brains were about the size of a lime!
Some dinosaurs had feathers.

13.

What Do We Know
About Dinosaurs?
What have you learnt about dinosaurs?