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Dinosaur Depot Museum: The Dinosaurs of Marsh and Cope [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
This booklet was written by Kenneth Carpenter from the Denver Museum of Natural History. It looks at the Jurassic dinosaurs that lived in Garden Park, Colorado. These included carnivorous dinosaurs, thunder lizards, Ornithopods, and...
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New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science: Coelophysis

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Coelophysis is New Mexico's official state fossil. It lived in the late Triassic Period and has only been found in New Mexico. Popular questions about this dinosaur are answered here. In addition, there are numerous documents about...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Beyond T. Rex

For Students 9th - 10th
Launch this OLogy link to find a dinosaur cladogram, an illustration that organizes dinosaurs into groups based on the unique characteristics they share, like a three-toed foot.
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University of California

Ucmp: The Tyrant Lizards: The Tyrannosauridae

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of California provides basic information on T. rex with links to related material great for a quick introduction.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Walking With Dinosaurs: Fact File: Ophthalmosaurus

For Students 9th - 10th
Read information about the dolphin-shaped opthalmosaurus, and learn what fossil evidence tells us about this marine dinosaur's hunting, anatomy, and young. View a listing of quick facts about the opthalmosaurus' size and diet, and launch...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Walking With Dinosaurs: Fact File: Quetzalcoatlus

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief description of the quetzacoatlus, "the largest flying creature of all time," which lived during the Late Cretaceous period over 65 million years ago. Find fast facts about this animal's size and fossil location, as well as...
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Children's Museum

Dinosphere: Dino Profiles: Meet the Gorgosaur

For Students 9th - 10th
What do fossils tell us about the Gorgosaurus and how it compares to T. rex? Learn about the size and diet of this "fearsome lizard", and read about the various injuries of Dinosphere's Gorgosaur fossil. Also, "Gorgosaur 360" lets you...
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Dinosaurs on the Attack

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists have theropods overcame their prey using their claws and teeth are described.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Dinosaurs: Theropod Biomechanics

For Students 9th - 10th
How fast could a Tyrannosaurus rex really run? Visitors to this resource will see how scientists use theropod biomechanics to simulate the movement of these large dinosaurs.
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Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Troodon Formosus

For Students 9th - 10th
The Canadian Museum of Nature looks at one of the rarest of dinosaurian fossils - the Troodon Formosus.
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Children's Museum

Dinosphere: Dino Profiles: Meet Bucky the Teenage T Rex

For Students 9th - 10th
See what a T. rex fossil named "Bucky" tells us about Bucky's life in the late Cretaceous Period and about T. rex in general.
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Meat Eating Dinosaurs Teeth

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Some excellent photos of the teeth of carnivorous dinosaurs are presented.
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Museums Victoria

Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Deinonychus Antirrhopus

For Students 9th - 10th
Deinonychus antirrhopus was a small, carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous Period, first discovered in the United States. A study of its skeleton revealed that it was fast-moving, which went against previously held beliefs...
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Museums Victoria

Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Tarbosaurus Bataar

For Students 9th - 10th
Tarbosaurus bataar was a large, meat-eating theropod from the Late Cretaceous Period, discovered in Mongolia. Some information and pictures can be found here.
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New Jersey Fossils: Meat Eating Dinosaur Dryptosaurus

For Students 9th - 10th
Dryptosaurus was a carnivorous dinosaur. Only a few minor fossil specimens of this dinosaur, described here, have been found at Big Brook, New Jersey, but there is strong evidence of its existence elsewhere in New Jersey.
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Dinosaur and Planetary History: Heavyweight Champions of the Dinosaur World

For Students 3rd - 8th
Some of the largest and heaviest carnivorous dinosaurs are profiled.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Walking With Dinosaurs: Fact File: Ornitholestes

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief look at what fossilized remains teach us about Ornitholestes, a carnivorous dinosaur "very closely related to the evolutionary line that produced the birds." Read facts about its size, anatomy, and diet, and view images showing...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Walking With Dinosaurs: Fact File: Eustreptospondylus

For Students 9th - 10th
A very brief look at Eustreptospondylus, a carnivorous dinosaur related to the Tyrannosaurus. Learn what the limited fossilized remains tell us abot its size, diet, and anatomy, and view several images showing what this dinosaur looked...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Walking With Dinosaurs: Fact File: Dwarf Allosaurus

For Students 9th - 10th
A very brief look at the Dwarf Allosaur, revealed to scientists via a single bone found in Australia. Read about its size in comparison to the Allosaurus, and view several images.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Walking With Dinosaurs: Fact File: Utahraptor

For Students 9th - 10th
An information page about the Utahraptor, a carnivorous dinosaur that lived over 100 million years ago. It was first found in Utah in 1991, hence its name.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Walking With Dinosaurs: Fact File: Allosaurus

For Students 9th - 10th
An information page about the dinosaur, Allosaurus.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Walking With Dinosaurs: Fact File: Tyrannosaurus

For Students 3rd - 5th
An information page about the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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Children's Museum

Dinosphere: Dino Profiles: Meet the Bambiraptor

For Students 9th - 10th
What do the fossils of the "baby raptor" tell us about the Bambiraptor? Learn what paleontologists have learned about this dinosaur's size, diet, and skeletal system.
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Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Meat Eating Dinosaurs

For Students 3rd - 5th
The different features of carnivorous dinosaurs' teeth and jaws that enabled them to cut through the flesh and bones of their prey are described.