Introduction The Triassic Period is the first phase of the Mesozoic era and spanned for an interval of 35 million years from 250-205 million years ago. Planet Earth was a very different place back then with the most common difference… Read More »Triassic Period
Introduction The Jurassic Period is the second phase of the Mesozoic era and quite possibly the most interesting. It spanned a total time period of around 65 million years and started around 205 million years ago right up to about… Read More »Jurassic Period
Introduction The Cretaceous Period was the last phase of the Mesozoic era and spanned for an interval of 75 million years from 135-65 million years ago. Although the dinosaurs died out in this period many interesting dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus Rex and… Read More »The Cretaceous Period
Introduction The history of the planet Earth is divided into a bunch of time chunks so whether you’re looking at a time which existed 100 years ago or even as far back as 1000 million years ago you’ll need to… Read More »The Dinosaur Timeline
Introduction Lets face it if you’re knowledge about dinosaurs is what you’ve learnt from the movie Jurassic Park then you’re missing a massive junk of interesting facts and details regarding a very important and interesting period of our planets history.… Read More »Getting Started With Dinosaur Learning
Dinosaur for children It’s been a while since we released any new learning resources but here’s 10 awesome dinosaur coloring pages for your kids and students to enjoy. These are free to use for educational purposes.В If you wish to… Read More »10 Dinosaur coloring pages for your kids
Group Classification Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Sauropsida Superorder Dinosauria Order Saurischia Suborder Theropoda Family Tyrannosauridae Useful Statistics Name Tyrannosaurus Rex Pronounced Tie-Ran-O-Saw-Russ-Rex Diet Carnivore Size L 40 ft x H 20 ft Weight 5 – 8 Tonnes Period Cretaceous… Read More »Tyrannosaurus Rex
Group Classification Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Sauropsida Superorder Dinosauria Order Ornithischia Suborder Thyreophora Family Stegosauridae Useful Statistics Name Stegosaurus Pronounced Steg-O-Saw-Rus Diet Herbivore Size L 30 ft x H 14 ft Weight 2.8 – 3.2 Tonnes Period Jurassic Sub… Read More »Stegosaurus
Prosauropods and the origin of plateosaurus The plateosaurus was one among the first set of dinosaurs who were named formally though it must be mentioned here that at that point not much research had been carried out to judge its… Read More »Plateosaurus
Origin of the giganotosaurus The term ‘dinosauria’ was coined in the 1840s by Richard Owen and it referred to fearsome and formidable reptiles or lizards. The dinosaurs are believed to be the one of the earliest of the vertebrates to… Read More »Giganotosaurus