Welcome to the slight confusion of a dinosaur that the name we STARTED hunting for turns out to be the less common or even a miss name. So we started with the name Denversaurus (even though skeleton pieces were found in Dakota??) and quickly found out it was another “local to our old home” dinosaur with the better known and accepted name of Edmontonia. (Dinosaur Resource Center HERE)

Another from the late Cretaceous period this is another plated dinosaur with spikes. As Emanuel correctly guessed, an herbivore. With its bulky low slung body it was basically a walking tank and considered part of the Nodosaur family. In fact, if you have 65 thousand dollars and the space you can order your own fossil reproduction of one from the Black Hills Institute HERE.

Now for our links… Animal Planet has a piece under the name Denversaurus HERE. Science Kids has a great picture HERE. Dinonsaurs.about.com has a great fact sheet HERE. Dinosdinosaurs.com has a nice diagram HERE. Cooldinofacts.wikia.com has a great action shot HERE. Kidsdinos has their usual map etc HERE. Wiki has its article HERE. And our colouring page came from THIS site. I could not, for the life of me, find a video that was actually about THIS dinosaur and NOT one in the same family, but I hope these links are helpful! 

Rainbows and all!

Apparently in Africa there was NOT a large number of carnivores, but we lucked out with our Afrovenator. The name itself means African Hunter and hunt it did. Its likeness to other dinosaurs apparently had helped with the debate over the position of the continents at that time. Found in the EARLY Cretaceous period I actually found some excellent links and a few videos even with its anonymity in the grand scheme of dinosaurs on tv and popular culture! So let’s get started! First a video:

We started with The Dinosaur of the Week site and their terrific series of entries on our dinosaur HERE. In fact, our second video is down the page on this site. But to simplify things here it is:

Age of Dinosaurs has a great map etc HERE. I love the image on the Wikia Cool Dino Facts page HERE. Science Kids has a short write up HERE. Dinosaur.about.com has a nice discussion about the movement of the continents HERE. And another link HERE. Dinosaurking has a nice size chart of our dinosaur vs. humans HERE. EnchantedLearning has their fact page HERE. And Wiki has a great article HERE. Our print out is actually on the Dinosaur of the Week page! Be sure to scroll down! 

Such creative colouring