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🦖 Meet the dinosaurs

What were dinosaurs? Simple, true meet the dinosaurs facts for young children, each with a fun fact, a tiny activity and a question to talk about together.

Tap a question to reveal the answer, share the fun fact, try the tiny activity, then talk about it together.

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What were dinosaurs? Revealexpand_more

Dinosaurs were amazing reptiles that lived on Earth a very, very long time ago, long before people. Some were bigger than a bus and some were as small as a chicken. They walked the land for millions of years, and then died out ages before the first humans appeared.

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Talk about itWhat is your favourite dinosaur, and why do you like it?

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Did you know?The word dinosaur means "terrible lizard", though many were gentle plant eaters.

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Try itStand tall with arms up like a giant dinosaur, then crouch small like a tiny one. Dinosaurs came in every size.

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🦖📏How big were dinosaurs?🌿What did dinosaurs eat?⏳When did dinosaurs live?

🤖Still curious?Are dinosaurs the same as lizards today?arrow_forward

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How big were dinosaurs? Revealexpand_more

Dinosaurs came in every size you can imagine. The biggest, the long-necked giants, were taller than a house and longer than a swimming pool. The smallest were about the size of a chicken or a house cat. So not all dinosaurs were huge, some were tiny.

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Talk about itWould you rather meet a giant dinosaur or a tiny one? Why?

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Did you know?The largest dinosaurs weighed as much as ten elephants put together.

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Try itPace out how long a bus is, then imagine a dinosaur several times longer. That is a giant long-neck.

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🤖Still curious?What was the very biggest dinosaur ever found?arrow_forward

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What did dinosaurs eat? Revealexpand_more

Some dinosaurs ate only plants, munching leaves, ferns and treetops all day long. Others were meat eaters that hunted or scavenged other animals. You can often tell them apart by their teeth: flat teeth for grinding plants, and sharp, pointed teeth for tearing meat.

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Talk about itWould you rather be a plant-eating or meat-eating dinosaur?

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Did you know?The biggest plant-eating dinosaurs had to eat almost all day to fill their enormous bodies.

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Try itPretend to be a plant eater grinding leaves, then a meat eater with big snapping jaws. Which feels more like you at dinner?

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🦖🦖What was the T. rex like?🦷How do we know what a dinosaur ate?🦕Why did some dinosaurs have such long necks?

🤖Still curious?How did plant-eating dinosaurs chew such tough leaves?arrow_forward

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Nobody has ever heard a dinosaur, so we cannot be sure. But by studying their bones and their closest living relatives, birds and crocodiles, scientists think many dinosaurs boomed, honked, hissed or rumbled rather than roaring like a lion in films. Some may have made deep sounds we would feel more than hear.

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Talk about itWhat sound do you imagine your favourite dinosaur would make?

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Did you know?Some dinosaurs had hollow crests on their heads that may have worked like trumpets.

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Try itCup your hands and hum a deep note. Some dinosaurs may have made low, rumbling sounds a bit like that.

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🤖Still curious?How do scientists guess what dinosaurs sounded like?arrow_forward

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