Now here is a wickedly cool carnivore with an interesting CURRENT history as well! Now, don’t get your hopes up, that does NOT mean it is alive and well here… rather that WW II affected this dinosaur personally! In fact, the only decent bones found of this dinosaur with AMAZING spine pieces was destroyed in an air raid! What we are left with are the photographs of the display that was on the wall in the museum in Munich. 

This giant carnivore was larger than a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and rather unique with its sail like spine and its crocodile-esque head. This predator did not  use its teeth to tear apart its victims but rather flung them around much like a crocodile. Its size was immense, its shape fearsome. What an amazing biped! Though there is some thought that they could have occasionally walked on 4 legs. Add a diet of meat AND fish and you have quite the amazing dinosaur. Our first video is a series of them with Discovery. You have to watch it on the site HERE.

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Discovery Dinosaur has the point form version of the video… you can find that HERE. Dinosaurs.about.com includes information about those destroyed fossils HERE. Jurassic Park has a neat Wikia page HERE. EnchantedLearning has a fact page HERE. BBC has a great picture of the Spinosaur, though the media did not work when clicked on HERE. Science kids has a great illustration of the person to dinosaur ratio HERE. Kidsdigdinos has a nice page BUT their fact question has this dinosaur as SMALLER than the T Rex where everything we read and saw stated otherwise HERE. Kiddinos, as usual has the map and the timeline showing it is a Cretaceous period dinosaur HERE. BigActivities.com has our printout HERE. And of course Wiki has their usual HERE. And now for our second video:

I love it, everywhere I looked it basically states that the T Rex is basically THE most FAMOUS dinosaur of all times!! And it is rather easy to see why – a HUGE carnivore (though not the biggest ever), this dinosaur was around at the end of the age of dinosaurs. With its distinctive and HUGE jaws and tiny almost humourous arms it is a very memorable predator. Made even MORE memorable by its key part on Jurassic Park! 

So it was more a case of sifting through sites to find good ones than the usual panicked hunting down of SOMETHING. The Natural History Museum had an amazing 3D rendering on their site HERE. Emanuel loved National Geographic’s little silhouette comparison of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and a school bus HERE. UCMP had a nice article HERE complete with a photo of a skeleton. Dinosaur About.com again had a great 10 fact list HERE. Kids Dig Dinos has a great drawing on its site of a T Rex along with a fun little question to answer HERE. National Geographic Kids has a little set of fact card  type things to look at and if you wish print HERE. Want a map and a timeline? Go to Kidsdinos.com and find it HERE. About.com (main site) has some links within their page to other like dinosaurs and articles of interest HERE. Of course there is EnchantedLearning and their page on the dinosaur HERE. Our colouring pages of choice can be found HERE. Don’t forget about Wiki and their rather dry but informative article HERE.

Of course we had our video time. Start with the multiple options on the Tyrannosaurus Rex on DSC discovery.com which included a TERRIFIC one on baby T Rexs HERE. And then there is our choice youTube video… enjoy!!!!

Added little something something for the dinosaur/T Rex lover in all of us is the short list of dinosaur related/themed books we collected from the library:

1. I am a Tyrannosaurus by Anna Grossnickle Hines
2. Dear Tyrannosaurus Rex by Lisa McClatchy
3. How the Dinosaur Got to the Museumby Jessie Hartland
   

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