And we are back to the dinosaurs, though admittedly this is a PRE Christmas, 2012 dinosaur! I promise a return to the regular daily blogging but the backlog of dinosaurs… gotta share! Enjoy!

Quite the mouthful! Add that to the fact that it was a totally armoured nodosaurid, that last of the family, and it is hard on the tongue! Emanuel chose this one because of all the plates and spikes. He felt it looked like it would be VERY safe out in the wild. And really, this herbivore was quite capable of foraging safely.

This 4 legged dinosaur lived in North American and was first discovered in our home province of Alberta, Canada. It was found in the Late Cretaceous period and was closely related to the Edmontonia. (Maybe another we should check out and add to our Alberta found dinos?). It ate low lying plants and while it was large to us, was really a medium sized dinosaur. Our first video is from I’m a dinosaur.

The second video is simply a visual on the make up of the dinosaur’s skull, brain, olfactory and such.

And now for our links! There is a brief fact section on EnchantedLearning HERE. Kidsdinos.com has the charts and maps HERE. Dinosaurs.about.com has a great image of the skull HERE. Animal Planet has the article the mentions the Edmontonia HERE. DinosaurKing has some facts HERE. Canadian Museum of Nature has a terrific artist’s rendition of the dinosaur HERE. And of course Wiki has their article HERE. I would suggest the artist’s rendition for the print out, though we had to take a miss on it as our toner is too low. 

All smiles