Gone Forever

ROAR! An allosaurus roars to let others know this is its own area and they are not welcome. Dinosaurs are extinct, meaning no longer alive. Dinosaurs were amazing reptiles that ruled the Earth from 130 million to 65 million years ago, and all died out from something, but we do not know what that is. Rumors are that a massive meteorite came crashing down, blocking the sun for plants, which some dinosaurs ate, leaving the plant eaters to starve, and leaving nothing for the meat eaters to eat but each other, and they all killed each other. There were two main groups of dinosaur, including the ornithopods and the theropods. The ornithopods included many plant eaters, such as triceratops, and the theropods included many meat eaters like allosaurus. Here are some different dinoaurs that lived way back.

1. Fatty triceratops had a big shield behind its head, and one horn over each eye and its nose. It weighed a ton.

2.Velociraptor was a fast but small killer, and had lots of teeth. It was a short dimosaur.

3. Stegosaurus was a plant eater, with many plates on its back, and its secret weapon was its spiky tail.

4. Apatosaurus was a gentle giant, with a very long neck and tail. Even the babies were huge!

5. Tyrannosaurus rex had massive jaws that could crush bone, and was one of the last dinosaurs to live.

6. Spinosaurus was larger than tyrannosaurus, but it lived much eariier. It was a meat eater and had a huge sail on its back.

Fossils are imprints and buried remains of dinosaurs that were preserved in rock and that people dig up. The name of this person is a paleontologist. Trace fossils are fossilized things related to dinosaurs, such as eggs, coprolites (fossilized dinosaur poop) and footprints.