Dinosaurs are prehistoric reptiles that lived on the earth about 230 million years ago. There are about 10 kinds of familiar dinosaurs that we often see on TV, such as Tyrannosaurus Rex, Diplodocus, Pterosaurus, Stegosaurus, Ichthyosaurus, and Mamen Xisaurus and more, come and get to know these dinosaurs!
In the past, people always believed that dinosaurs, like today's reptiles, just lay eggs and walk away, regardless of what happens to their children. Later, paleontologists discovered that the teeth of some young dinosau···
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The excavation of Yellow River Dragon began in 2002 and lasted for three years. The fossils include: a nearly complete sacral vertebra, a front caudal vertebra, a middle caudal vertebra, several incomplete cervical ribs,···
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Diplodocus lived in the Late Jurassic between 145 million and 155 million years ago. It was a huge herbivorous dinosaur. The body of Diplodocus was very long, with fossils showing that its body was up to 27 meters long e···
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Brachiosaurus is one of the large dinosaurs that lived in the Late Jurassic. It is 26 meters long, 12 to 16 meters high, and weighs 33 to 88 tons. Brachiosaurus's forelimbs were tall and much longer than its hind limbs, ···
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Brontosaurus is one of the giant long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs. It is 21 meters long, 4.5 meters high from the hip, and weighs about 35 tons. They like to move in groups. When a large group of Brontosaurus comes from···
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Lufengosaurus lived in the Early Jurassic about 190 million years ago and was the ancestor of the later giant herbivorous dinosaurs. It is named after the type specimen was found in Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, China.···
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Pachycephalosaurus is a kind of dinosaur with a hard and thick skull as "horns". Like goats, they also like to use their "horns" to fight. Pachycephalosaurus represents the Pachycephalosaurus dinosaur. It is 4.6 meters l···
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Shantungosaurus was discovered at the Zhucheng Fossil Site in Shandong Province. The Zhucheng Fossil Site is located in the Dragon Bone Stream, 10 kilometers southwest of Zhucheng City. For a long time, local residents h···
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Stegosaurus is a typical herbivorous dinosaur, with a total length of 8 to 9 meters, a height of 2.75 meters (excluding bone plates), and a weight of 3.1 tons. The original Latin meaning of Stegosaurus is "roofed lizard"···
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Ankylosaurus was named in 1908 and mainly lived in Montana, Mexico and Bolivia in South America. There are currently three very complete skeleton fossils, so we fully understand the shape of this dinosaur. Its limbs are ···
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Mamenchisaurus is one of the largest sauropod dinosaurs discovered in China. The length of a standard tennis court is 23.77 meters. Mamenchisaurus reached 25 meters, which is really unimaginable. There are many cavities ···
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Just when the clamor that birds originated from dinosaurs is overwhelming, my country's famous paleontologist and researcher Hou Lianhai of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy ···
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Since He Xuli proposed that birds originated from dinosaurs, this hypothesis was once popular at the time, but at the same time, it was also opposed by some scientists. But the real impact on this hypothesis came in 1913···
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The earliest skeleton fossil of a large reptile that came to the attention of the scientific community was discovered in 1770, about 40 years before Darwin was born. It was found in a chalk quarry on the St. Peter's Moun···
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This hypothesis about the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs believes that the culprit of the catastrophe at the end of the Cretaceous was not an asteroid but a comet. Some scientists believe that the sun has a com···
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Some scientists believe that the current theories on the extinction of dinosaurs emphasize external causes, such as asteroid impacts, cosmic events, destruction of the earth's ozone layer, large-scale volcanic eruptions,···
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The mass extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous is an eternal mystery in the history of biology. Scientists have proposed one theory after another to try to explain the cause, but so far there is no con···
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According to data obtained from deep-sea geological drilling, some scientists believe that the climate on the earth experienced abnormal changes 65 million years ago, and the temperature suddenly increased. This change p···
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At present, egg fossils of ancient reptiles, especially dinosaur egg fossils, have been discovered in many places around the world. According to the morphological structure, dinosaur eggs can be divided into short round ···
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The famous Italian physicist Antonio Chicchi recently proposed that the cause of the mass extinction of the dinosaurs was probably a large-scale submarine volcanic eruption. Professor Chikichi believes that at the end of···
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At a scientific symposium in 1980, American geologist Alvarez and others vividly told a thrilling story that happened 65 million years ago based on their research results: One sunny afternoon, In the tropical shrubs unde···
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Dinosaur fossils have been discovered in recent years. New species are being discovered one after another. Groups of scientists are eager to study them. Generations of children and their parents have a strong interest in···
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In the Jurassic dinosaur world, there was a giant dinosaur. They eat plants and live in vast wilderness. These are the dinosaurs of the genus Elopod. They evolved and developed through long-term adaptation from the Trias···
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About 208 million years ago, a mysterious worldwide disaster caused the extinction of many living things. This disaster heralded the end of the Triassic Period and the beginning of the Jurassic Period. Dashanpu dinosaur ···
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