MEGA COOL MEGAFAUNA Creatures of Ancient Lands Anastasia Suen A Division of Rourke Carson Dellosa Education Educational Media Bridges
The Ancient Lands Was there once a turtle with claws three feet one meter long That’s what scientists thought when they discovered these fossils They named it Therizinosaurus the scythe lizard Then more fossils were found Scientists thought they were dealing with a sea creature but the truth was different This was megafauna that lived on land It was a dinosaur that was over 25 feet 7 6 meters long and weighed more than 10,000 pounds 4,536 kilograms This fossilized Therizinosaurus egg is about 70 million years old 4
Don’t Eat Me Therizinosaurus had a small head and teeth just right for eating plants It didn’t use its long claws to catch prey Instead Therizinosaurus used its claws to fight back when other animals tried to eat it 5
