Tag Archive | North America

Dryosaurus

The “Oak Tree Lizard” is called so due to the fact that its teeth look like oak leaves. The Dryosaurus is a Cretaceous period dinosaur found in North American and Tanzania. This herbivore was one of the first bird footed dinosaurs to evolve. With its beak, back teeth and 5 fingered front legs it was quite the dinosaur! Now for our I’m a Dinosaur video:

There are a few links to share with this dinosaur. Let’s start with our deviantArt artist Zakafreakarma who created the colouring page we used for Emanuel. You can find it HERE. EnchantedLearning has a fact sheet HERE. Dinosaurs.about.com has a brief page HERE. Jurassic Park has a little picture of our herbivore HERE. Animal Planet discusses our dinosaur HERE. National Park Service has a great picture of the skeleton of our dinosaur HERE. KidsDinos.com has charts and map HERE. And of course, Wiki has their article HERE.

With Zander

Torvosaurus

This “savage lizard” is one of the largest known Jurassic therapods. The Torvosaurus is found in North America and is a rather intimidating carnivore. There is some debate as to whether or not it is actually a dinosaur on its own or a version of another due to the lack of a complete skeleton. An intimidating and fierce dinosaur Emanuel was quick to point out that it looks A LOT like a T Rex!

So again, two videos! We started with I’m a Dinosaur and ended with a short fight video of the Torvosaurus vs an Allosaurus!

Ok ok time for the links! Dino Directory sets up up with a great visual on the size of this beast HERE. The Dinopedia covers our dinosaur HERE. DinosaurKing has some stats HERE. Dinosaurs.about.com has an article HERE. EnchantedLearning has a fact sheet HERE. Carnivora has an entry HERE about our dinosaur. Wiki has their say HERE and you can find our colouring page HERE we actually used our NHM link for that.

Torvosaurus

Ultrasaurus

The name of this dinosaur totally screams super here to me! The Ultrasaurua really lives (er dies?? fossilizes???) up to its name with its ultra long neck and large body. This herbivore was MASSIVE. 5 or 6 stories tall this dinosaur found in North American and South Korea (sites differ on that one) dwarfed everyone and everything. It is believed that it would have had to eat constantly and once fully grown would have had no predators. From the Jurassic period it really was a true giant!

Now for our videos. We had TWO… I’m a Dinosaur of course and the other a fun dinosaur themed song!

And now for our links… Let’s start with Kidsdinos.com who states this is a North American dinosaur but has a great illustration and some solid information HERE. CoolDinoFacts is just a sentence and a picture, but Emanuel loved the picture HERE. Animal Planet has a lengthy article HERE. The Jurassic Park site states that this dinosaur is native to South Korea HERE. There is actually another brief video on Curiosity.com from Discovery Channel dealing with the predator issue HERE. EnchantedLearning has a great page HERE about our dinosaur. Wiki has its article HERE and our colouring page comes from this site HERE.

Ultrasaurus