Dinosaurs

What does Dinosaur mean?

Dinosaur means terrible lizard. It comes from the Greek words deinos and sauros. Deinos meaning terrible, and sauros meaning lizard.

What were the first Dinosaurs?

The first Dinosaurs looked like tadpoles with legs, but then they evolved and looked like lizards. And then they started to look like dinosaurs now.

Dinosaurs Now

One of the least known Ceratopsians is Chasmosaurs (Kaz-muh-sawr-us). It looked like an everyday Triceratops (Tri-sar-o-tops) but with horns on it’s frill.

Now dinosaurs, like T.Rex, are dinosaurs we now like. However people still like those earlier dinosaurs.

Sources

Teitelbaum, Michael. Dinosaurs of the Land,Sea, and Air  Vero Beach: The Rourke Corporation,1999.

Harris, Nicholas. The Story of Live On Earth . Vancouver: Ben’s Books,1999.