DINOSAURS
WHAT IS IT?
WHAT DOES
THE WORD "DINOSAURS" MEAN?
WHAT KIND
OF DINOS DO YOU KNOW?
WHEN DID
THEY LIVE?
CAN YOU
DESCRIBE DINOS?
Paleontology is the study of the history of life. Scientists who study
paleontology are called paleontologists.
Paleontologists are interested in finding out about all
life on earth, they study all kinds of fossils and dinosaur bones.
The word dinosaur comes from Greek language and means
"terrible lizard".
Dinosaurs lived on the Earth for over 160 million years,
from the Triassic period, trhough
the Jurassic period and until the
end of the Cretaceous perioda round 65
million years ago. All that time periodi s known as the MESOZOIC ERA, or the Age of Dinosaurs.
Scientists believe that a massive ateroid impact caused their extinction.
(materiale tratto da Nuovo
Gulliver News, gennaio 2013)
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