DEADLYAND INCREDIBLE ANIMALS Many animals are deadly to other animals They are deadly to their prey and sometimes even to their predators Over many thousands of years these animals have developed incredible behaviors and features to find food to defend themselves from predators and to protect their young Deadly and Incredible Features and Behaviors Different types of animals have different deadly features and behaviors Deadly and incredible features include strong jaws razor sharp teeth and stingers or fangs for injecting venom into prey Deadly and incredible behaviors include stalking hunting and distracting prey before attacking and killing it Animals such as lions use their incredible size and strength to smash crush and rip apart their prey Excellent eyesight helps many nocturnal animals hunt their prey under the cover of even the darkest night WIL Meat eating dinosaurs such as Suchomimuses used their powerful jaws to crush their
DEADLY AND INCREDIBLE DINOSAURST Some of the most deadly and incredible animals lived on Earth about 225 million years ago How Do We Know about Dinosaurs Dinosaurs lived on Earth for 160 million years but died out about 65 million years ago Scientists have used fossils to gather as much information as possible about dinosaurs Paleontologists put this information together like the pieces of a puzzle IN THIS BOOK In this book you will read about the top 10 deadliest dinosaurs from number 10 least deadly to number 1 most deadly There are many different opinions on which of the dinosaurs should top this list The dinosaurs in this book have been selected on the basis of research by paleontologists Theropods Dinosaurs can be sorted into groups according to their features The dinosaurs featured in this book belong to the theropod group meat eating dinosaurs Fossils show us that some theropods were scaly while others had feathers apods were vicious and frightening predators th sometimes hunted plant eating
FEATURES OF DINOSAURS to Theropods used their deadly behaviors and fearsome features to kill their prey Some theropods were huge with massive heads and razor sharp teeth Other smaller theropods were just as deadly and used cunning and intelligence to hunt down their prey Teeth Incredible Most theropods had razor sharp teeth They used their teeth to kill their prey with one deadly bite usually to the neck or belly Theropods often had bits of old meat stuck in their teeth This old rotting meat was full of germs If a victim was bitten by a dinosaur but escaped sometimes it would die later from the germs in the bite wound Jaws Many meat eating dinosaurs used their powerful jaws to crush their prey Their jaws were so strong they could Crush bones Theropods such as tyrannosauruses used their sharp teeth to rip through
Claws Many dinosaurs had large hooked claws on their front hands and hind feet They used their claws to rip apart their prey Theropods could smell their prey from long distances away Eyesight and Smell Dinosaurs such as troodons had large eyes with binocular vision Dinosaurs also had a good sense of smell In 1 A Theropods such as dromicеiomimuses had sharp claws for holding or slashing their prey Size Large theropods used their size to knock their prey to the ground They had enormous heads strong necks thick bodies and powerful legs Some theropods used their enormous weight and size to stun their prey sometimes killing them
