I was so shocked and embarrassed to see that we had not yet covered the very popular and familiar Stegosaurus! This herbivore has quite the memorable visual with its large plates and barbs on its tail… and the beak mouth without any teeth. Found in the Jurassic Period with an unusually small brain the actual reason behind the plates along its back has been long discussed (And is talked about in an episode of Dino Dan. There are actually multiple episodes that deal with this dinosaur on the Canadian/American show).

We had two videos. The I’m a Dinosaur video and then a series from the Discovery channel that you can view HERE.

There are plenty of links regarding this very popular dinosaur but here are the ones we used, let’s go with a list…

1. EnchantedLearning HERE
2. Dinosaurs.about.com HERE
3. Kidsdigdinos.com HERE
4. Kids-Dinosaurs.com HERE
5. Jurassic Times HERE
6. Science Kids HERE
7. We did not have time to get into this much BUT I felt I should share Stegosaurus.org HERE
8. Wiki HERE
9. Our colouring page another of Zakafreakarama on deviantArt HERE, be sure to check out his personal page HERE.

And there you are, a nice selection to get you going in your dinosaur adventures!

Stegosaurus

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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