Now here is a place where Jurassic Park MAY have gotten it wrong, I don’t know if you remember this movie (I certainly do), but early on there are these dinosaurs, not overly huge, that only only had this weird crest  that opened up around their head but they ALSO spit poison. I think that is when the overweight employee who was stealing DNA samples is killed or something like that. Blinded at least. Well, according to our research there is NO proof that either this crest OR the poison spitting truly occurred. Of course, it was still a rather unique looking dinosaur with its crest on the top of its head and ability to run. We actually had two videos this time (no, I did NOT show Emanuel the JP clip, no need to muddy the waters with an artist’s rendition of the dinosaur with “extras”). First, I’m a Dinosaur.

Our second video is a Discovery one, so you have go to the site it is posted on and view it HERE.

Now for our links. This dinosaur was around in the early Jurassic period on the riverbanks of Asia and North America, you can find a great kid drawn illustration and even a question to test your knowledge HERE. Curious about how this dinosaur sizes up against a human? Check HERE for a great illustration of that. EnchantedLearning has a fact sheet HERE. Kidsdinos.com has their usual helpful page HERE. Quite the colourful picture of our dinosaur HERE on Dinosaurs.about.com. Wiki has their information HERE.

We didn’t get into this site but enjoyed the image of the skeleton HERE. I am sure that it would be helpful for anyone who REALLY wanted to know more about this dinosaur. But first, before you truly head off and learn more… our colouring page was right HERE. This one was special, it has questions attached to answer. Which was a fun exercise for Emanuel and I to share what we remembered.

A series of worksheets on this one

Sometimes I wonder at  the names of these dinosaurs, but they do make Emanuel giggle as we both try and wrap our mouths around them. This herbivore is a bit on the small side, but is a little unique in so far as it seems to have walked on both two and four feet. The Scutellosaurus really is an unusual looking herbivore.

We had a couple videos to watch to Emanuel’s joy! First, of course, is I’m a Dinosaur.

And secondly, a cute kid made video using dinosaur figurines.

There were a few links of interest on this versatile plant eater from the late Triassic period. Of course Kidsdinos.com had a page with their charts and graphs HERE. Encyclopedia Britannica has a rather technical article about the dinosaur HERE. Dinosaurs.about.com has a short piece HERE. Animal Planet has an article HERE. What I find interesting is how some of these articles have the period of this dinosaur slightly different, though the majority seem to say Triassic. EnchantedLearning has a fact sheet HERE and has our dinosaur listed as early Jurassic. You can check out the AgeofDinosaurs.com page HERE. Of course Wiki has an article about this early armoured dinosaur HERE. Our colouring page came right off of deviantArt HERE. Thank you zakafreakarama. 

Working together

While Emanuel has openly stated his favourite dinosaurs are the herbivores we most certainly can NOT ignore all these interesting carnivores. The compsognathus is no exception. This dinosaur, tiny as it was (the size of a chicken) is the first dinosaur of which a whole, complete fossil was found! Now for our links and videos for this rather interesting, but small dinosaur from the late Jurassic Period.

We found TWO videos for this dinosaur. Of course, I’m a Dinosaur was first.

But the second is actually from Jurassic Park the Game?? Seems like it could be rather interesting.

So it seem Compy is a little bit famous! Kidsfront.com has a great little blurb with a colour Emanuel whole heartedly agreed with HERE. Blue was perfect he said! There is more about the Compsognathus and its role in the Jurassic Park franchise and more HERE. Dinosaurs.about.com has some interesting information HERE. As usual Emanuel loved the charts and graphs on Kidsdinos.com HERE. EnchantedLearning has a fact sheet HERE or the article with more information HERE. Of course Wiki has its article HERE. And last of all, our colouring page HERE.

Compy