Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Kritosarus





















Picture by : http://www.raul-martin.net/raulmartin/uno/kritosaurus.htm

Kritosaurus

by : http://www.typesofdinosaurs.com/kritosaurus

- Other Names: Gryposaurus (not confirmed)
- Pronunciation: CRY-tuh-SAWR-us
- Translation: Noble Lizard
- Order: Ornithischia
- Suborder: Ornithopoda
- Infraorder: Iguanodontia
- Family: Hadrosauridae
- Height: 23 feet (7 meters)
- Weight: 5,950 pounds (2,700 kg)
- Length: 30 feet (9.1 meters)
- Period: Late Cretaceous
- Description: Herbivore, Bipedal
- Notes: Kritosaurus was found in New Mexico by Barnum Brown,the great American Museum of Natural History collector. Thisduckbill dinosaur had a wide, flat skull and a ridge of bone justbelow its eyes. This would have given its mouth and snout theappearance of a "Roman Nose," hence its name "Noble Lizard."There is considerable evidence that Kritosaurus and Gryposaurusare the same species but there appear to be differences in theirtooth structure.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Saber Tooth Tigers

By Brady

(http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312706/sabertoothtigers.htm)

Saber tooth tigers lived many, many years ago back when the earth was trapped in an Ice Age. At that time, woolly mammoths and mastodons roamed the icy land. Smilodons, which were a type of saber tooth tiger, were a tiny bit smaller than the panthers that live today. However, smilodons were heavier than panthers, weighing a whopping 440 lbs. The smilodons were the biggest kind of saber tooth. Saber tooths were very fierce predators. The saber tooth tiger was about the size of the African lion. Some saber tooth tigers grew up to 15 feet in length!