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Gastonia Facts

About as long as a train car

Weighed as much as a Black Rhinoceros

Ate mainly low lying plants and leaves

Gastonia was hunted by Utahraptor

Ran at a speed of about 8 miles per hour

Was probably a herd animal

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I went to Paultons Park and we saw a dinosaur in dinosaur kingdom.It was fun!

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did you know Megalodon was the biggest shark that used to be in the sea.

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this dinosaur's name means dragon robber and it was found
in Wales.

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Scientists have named a creature dating back 201 million years and found on a Welsh beach.

It is one of the oldest known Jurassic dinosaurs and related to the fearsome T Rex.

It was discovered on Lavernock beach by a pair of fossil-hunting brothers.

Nick and Rob Hanigan, from Llantwit Major, made the "discovery of a lifetime" when they found the fossilised skull and bones on the beach in the Vale of Glamorgan after storms in spring 2014.

Now the juvenile creature, Dracoraptor hanigani, bears their name.

Dracoraptor is Latin for "dragon robber" - with a red dragon the national symbol of Wales.

40% of skeleton found

Although a meat-eater and distantly related to Tyrannosaurus rex, the newly-discovered dragon was nothing like as terrifying as its later cousin.

D. hanigani, which stood on two legs, was a small, agile animal probably no more than about 2.2ft tall and 6.5ft long with a long tail that may have been used for balance.

Since most of its bones were not yet fully formed experts believe the specimen discovered here may have been a youngster.
Read more: How do you paint a dinosaur that is 55ft high and nearly 70ft long?
Scientists have recovered about 40% of the dinosaur's skeleton, found embedded in rock at the base of a collapsed coastal cliff at Lavernock Point in March 2014.

At the start of the Jurassic Period, when D. hanigani was alive, the climate of south Wales was much warmer than it is today and dinosaurs were just starting to diversify.

'Incredible discovery'

The Welsh "dragon", which belonged to the large theropod dinosaur family, is thought to be one of the oldest known Jurassic dinosaurs in the UK or even the world.

Dinosaur scientist Steven Vidovic, from the University of Portsmouth, one of the experts whose description of D. hanigani appears in the online journal Public Library of Science ONE, said: "The Triassic-Jurassic extinction event is often credited for the later success of dinosaurs through the Jurassic and Cretaceous but previously we knew very little about dinosaurs at the start of this diversification and rise to dominance.

"Now we have Dracoraptor, a relatively complete two metre-long juvenile theropod from the very earliest days of the Jurassic in Wales."

Mr Vidovic said it was difficult to estimate how big an adult Dracoraptor would be.

Based on other specimens from the same period a rough guess would be "more than three metres" (9.8 feet).

At the time it was alive dinosaurs were yet to get into their stride and take over the Earth. The dominant species were early ancestors of crocodiles and mammals.

"You just don't find these animals so this is an incredible discovery," said Mr Vidovic.

"You can count the number of known dinosaurs from this time period on your fingers."

Nick and Rob Hanigan, who had been searching for ichthyosaur remains when they discovered the Dracoraptor, spotted several loose blocks containing part of the skeleton of a small dinosaur and collected the specimen, including its razor sharp teeth, and claws, after a cliff fall at Lavernock Point.

Displayed in Cardiff

The fossilised bones were found spread across five slabs of rock and although some were preserved together in the correct position others had been scattered and separated by the actions of scavenging fish and sea-urchins.

The specimen was preserved with the fossilised remains of these sea-urchins.

Following the announcement of the discovery Nick Hanigan said: "This is a once in a lifetime find. Preparing the skull and seeing the teeth of a theropod for the first time in 200m years was absolutely fantastic - you just can't beat that sort of thing."

The brothers donated the remains to the National Museum Cardiff where it is on display in the main hall.
Read more: From dinosaurs and portraits to dolls - the boss of National Museum Wales picks his favourite artefacts
Also on display for the first time is the dinosaur's foot, which was discovered by Sam Davies from Bridgend.

The University of Portsmouth palaeontology student discovered two blocks, which have been prepared to reveal the well-preserved foot bones, still in their original alignment.
See more pictures of the fossils here:

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The 200 million-year-old dinosaur found on a Welsh beach has been named

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Scientists have named a creature dating back 201 million years and found on a Welsh beach. It is one of the oldest known Jurassic dinosaurs and related to the fearsome T Rex. It was discovered on Lavernock beach by a pair of fossil-hunting brothers.

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Dinosaurs were reptiles that lived from about 230 million years to about 65 million years ago.

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what do dinosaurs eat?

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some dinosaurs are meat eaters and some are gass eaters but why do they eat t-rex

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how do rapters run so fast

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can    dinosaurs   grow    in   a   day

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how  sharp is a  t-rex's teeth?

Jacob Heaton

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Daisy would like to share with everyone how to sign dinosaur using makaton.

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Singing Hands: #MakatonMonday 2016 #26 - DINOSAUR

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Did you know that dinosaur means terrible lizard?

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thomas c trying to find fossils..... or maybe treasure 😉

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with my sister cerys :)

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fossils are parts of animals and plants preserved for years and years. many remains of dinosaurs have been found this way. here are pictures of me digging at the dinosaur exhibition in cardiff museum last year. Thomas C

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What was the biggest dinosaur ever? I think there is one bigger than a T-Rex!

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Did you know that the biggest and most deadliest carnivorous dinosaur (meat eater) was a Spinosaurus, it was even bigger than a Tyrannosaurus Rex!

Facts about Spinosaurus

It lived in North Africa

It was about as big as three buses

It hunted fish with it's crocodile like jaw

It's nostrils were high up so that it could hold it's jaw under the water

It liked to swim, unlike most dinosaurs

It had special teeth that allowed it to grip it's prey

Who do you think would win a battle, Spinosaurus or T-rex?

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T rex was a carnivore, it used to eat meat. Triceratops was a herbivore and used to eat plants. My favourite dinosaur is Pterodactyl because it could fly.

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Did you know that the speediest dinosaurs were ostrich mimic ornithomimids such as, Dromiceiomimos which could probably run at speeds of up to 60 kilometres per hour

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Did you know that one of the most brainy dinosaurs was a Troodon. It was a hunting dinosaur, about 2 metres long, and had a brain size similar to that of a mammal or bird of today, stereoscopic vision, and grasping hands.