Dinosaur Myths, Busted!

Dinosaur Myths, Busted! book cover — Table of contents All Dinosaurs Went Extinct Brontosaurus is the same as Apatosaurus 6 All Dinosaurs Were Dumb 8 Dinosaurs Were Cold Blooded 10 All Dinosaurs lived at the same ime 12 An Asteroid killed All the Dinosaurs at once 14 Stegosaurus Had Two Brains 16 Tyrannosaurus Rex Was a Scavenger 18 Dinosaurs Did Not Live in Water 20 Only Dinosaur Bones Were Preserved 22 Dinosaurs Dragged their Tails 24 Dinosaur Coloring Is Unknown 26 Fact Sheet 28 Glossary 30 For More Information 31 Index 32 About the Author 32

Dinosaur Myths, Busted! — page 1 — Busted All Dinosaurs Went Extinct an amazing fossil in Germany It was Most people think all dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago It is true that many of the best a small raven sized dinosaur It had known dinosaurs died out in the wings and feathers Paleontologists named it Archaeopteryx from the Greek words for ancient wing distant past Tyrannosaurus rex Velociraptor and Triceratops are long gone But some dinosaurs In the late twentieth and survived Their descendants continued to evolve Today we call early twenty first centuries paleontologists made many more discoveries They found more Archaeopteryx fossils They also found other them birds Scientists found the first connection between birdlike dinosaurs dinosaurs and birds in Archaeopteryx was the size of a raven and had feathers The more they learned the stronger 1861 They uncovered

Dinosaur Myths, Busted! — page 2 — the connection between dinosaurs These Hadrosaurus and other dinosaur eggs are similar to bird eggs and birds became Today most experts agree that birds are modern dinosaurs Many pieces of evidence lead to this conclusion Some types of dinosaurs have bones shaped like bird bones Dinosaurs and birds have similar eggs too Dinosaur fossils have even been found in the same resting positions birds use today Scientists now believe many dinosaurs had 150 million Number of years ago Archaeopteryx lived feathers All this evidence points to an amazing conclusion Not all dinosaurs went extinct Instead many of them still soar in the Archaeopteryx was one of the first birdlike dinosaurs discovered Birds and dinosaurs share many traits Paleontologists now believe birds are the descendants of dinosaurs sky

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