https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi Dinosaur en-us 2021-04-28 17:34:22 UTC 2025-04-29 20:08:38 UTC hello@padlet.com moorestevenp https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi/wish/1470333133 Early estimates of 300-year lifespans for the largest sauropods were based on comparisons with crocodiles and turtles, which have much slower metabolisms. The consensus is now that Apatosaurus and Diplodocus dinosaurs probably only lived for 70 or 80 years, which is about the same as an elephant today.]]> 2021-04-28 17:43:57 UTC https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi/wish/1470333133 moorestevenp https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi/wish/1470419106 No they are extinct ]]> 2021-04-28 18:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi/wish/1470419106 moorestevenp https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi/wish/1470442412 The smallest dinosaurs yet discovered are: A new, crow-sized theropod, Microraptor was recently found in China. It is about 16 inches (40 cm long) and may be an adult. Compsognathus, a theropod (meat-eater) 2 feet (60 cm) long, from 145 million years ago.]]> 2021-04-28 18:05:28 UTC https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi/wish/1470442412 moorestevenp https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi/wish/1474332490 The biggest land creatures are believed to have been the dinosaurs—of them, the titanosaur (as their name suggests) is believed to be the largest. ... The huge size of each suggests the dinosaur was a very large titanosaur—one that might be bigger than Argentinosaurus

]]> 2021-04-29 15:28:19 UTC https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi/wish/1474332490 moorestevenp https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi/wish/1474364323  The fastest dinosaur is the Dromiceiomimus. It can run up to 60 kilometer. That is roughly 37 miles per hour. ]]> 2021-04-29 15:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi/wish/1474364323 moorestevenp https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi/wish/1490848308 Dinosaurs must have had sex to reproduce. As in nearly all modern-day reptiles, males would have deposited sperm inside females, which would later lay fertilized eggs containing developing dinosaur embryos. ... Much remains to be discovered, but scientists are slowly drawing back the curtain on dinosaur amour. ]]> 2021-05-04 17:31:19 UTC https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi/wish/1490848308 moorestevenp https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi/wish/1490870837 They were the pterosaurs which included Plesiosaurus, Pteranodon, Pterodactylus, Dimorphodon, Rhamphorhynchus, Quetzalcoatlus, and many others. (pronounced TER-o-SAWRS) Pterosaurs (meaning "winged lizard") were flying, prehistoric reptiles. They were not dinosaurs, but were closely related to them. ]]> 2021-05-04 17:35:02 UTC https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi/wish/1490870837 moorestevenp https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi/wish/1490890091 The discovery of the remains of the first aquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, in Morocco has been described as 'game-changing'. The newly-discovered tail fossil of the first “river monster” dinosaur shows the giant predator was a powerful swimmer and the first known to have lived in the water. ]]> 2021-05-04 17:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi/wish/1490890091 moorestevenp https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi/wish/1490903594 Troodon was a meat-eater the size of a man, with a brain as big as an avocado pit. It was not only the smartest dinosaur, but the smartest animal of dinosaur times, including our ancestors — the mammals of the Mesozoic Era.  ]]> 2021-05-04 17:40:59 UTC https://padlet.com/moorestevenp/kaxz33i741ajikmi/wish/1490903594