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Psittacosaurus

With our heightened interest in all things Chinese these weeks before Chinese New Year I decided that the next week of dinosaurs should all be found in CHINA! So we start with Psittacosaurus that I hunted down through our iPad App Fantastic Dinosaurs HD. This was one of the listed that has the 360 degree option with one of the images. This early Cretaceous herbivore was one of the first horned dinosaurs which could have potentially walked on two or four legs. This is a rather unusual dinosaur as it has been rediscovered to have had quills on its tail! Thus our colouring page HERE has the funky tail as does the illustrations (that Emanuel says are CUTE) on the app.

Our video is from youTube and the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

And now, of course… LINKS! Though I must warn you… most do NOT deal with the quills. So here goes… EnchantedLearning and their “parrot lizard” information HERE has a very interesting profile image showing the beak like nose and mouth. Emanuel always is happy when Kidsdinos.com covers our dinosaur. He just loves their charts HERE. The American Museum of Natural History has a great picture of the cheek horns HERE. Animal Planet has a page about our dinosaur HERE. There is a bit of a spooky action shot on the Jurassic Park page HERE. Dinosaurs.about.com has a list of facts HERE. Wiki has  their page HERE, and I am including an article that went over Emanuel’s head but is informative about the quills HERE.

Quills

Enter the Familiar Triceratops!!

Seriously a COMMONLY KNOWN dinosaur is a LOVELY change! So much information to sift through to find the fun and interesting tips to share with our dino fiend Emanuel. So let’s get right down to it… Videos first! We chose two out of the tons there are online, first a tribute video with a nice selection of Triceratops images. Some fanciful others renditions and even some choice skeletons (did you know there are MULTIPLE variations depending on the skulls?? Cuz there are!)

And then a very informative video done by DinosaurDays. I am going to have to look into their actual site and see what they have on other dinosaurs of interest past and present.


There are many images on google. We chose THIS ONE for our picture to colour. And THIS fact sheet to put in our dinosaur folder. EnchantedLearning came through with THIS skeleton. I love how they gave names to all the bones, and really showed off the 3 horns and head frill (seriously a GREAT name for a piece of bone FRILL). The ScienceKids site has a great fact list HERE. And KidsDigDinos has a great child drawn illustration of a Triceratops HERE. Don’t forget Wiki for the total technical HERE. Emanuel loved the more story, chatty format of the dinosaurs.org site HERE. We always look to kidsdinos to find a map to show WHERE those bones were found HERE.

So add another herbivore to our list of dinos. The description of their lifestyle (herding, plant eating) reminded me a lot of other current mammals. After all it is even thought that they may have, in time of danger formed a circle with the weak and babies in the middle and horns pointing out. What an interesting dinosaur!! Check out the videos and links the next time you want to know more about this Cretaceous era dinosaur! Next up – Deinychus! Wish me luck, we found this one in our new dinosaur book – The Last Dinosaurs

Triceratops