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Ucmp: Building the Perfect Beast

For Students 9th - 10th
Gain an appreciation of what is involved in building a free standing mount of a forty-foot dinosaur skeleton. Text explanations are supplemented with excellent slide pictures of the actual work.
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Museums Victoria

Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons

For Students 9th - 10th
A database with detailed fact sheets for seventeen dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, including illustrations, a map, a timeline, physical characteristics, etc.
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Clever Island: Dinosaurs

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This primary age website requires no reading to construct the jigsaw dinosaur puzzle out of six pieces. The instructions are all spoken by the cartoon characters. Children can then watch a cartoon where one character goes back in time...
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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Willo: The Dinosaur With a Heart

For Students 3rd - 8th
Willo is a Thescelosaurus that lived 66 million years ago. Scientists discovered his fossilized heart inside his skeleton and were able to apply medical technology to analyze it. A description of the project and its findings is given...
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Tvo Kids: Dino Dig

For Students 3rd - 8th
At this site students play the part of a paleontologist Students must first dig up dinosaur bones using special tools and then reconstruct the dinosaur skeleton back at the lab. Along the way, the students will learn interesting facts...
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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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Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Tsintaosaurus Spinorhinus

For Students 9th - 10th
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, a type of hadrosaur, was a herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. Its fossilized remains have been found in China. Some information and pictures can be found here.
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Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Hadrosaur

For Students 9th - 10th
The Hadrosaur was a herbivorous Ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. Its fossilized remains have been found in Canada and elsewhere. Some information and pictures can be found here.
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Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Protoceratops Andrewsi

For Students 9th - 10th
Protoceratops andrewsi was an herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period, related to the Triceratops. Some information and pictures can be found here.
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Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Inostrancevia Alexandri

For Students 9th - 10th
Inostrancevia alexandri was a prehistoric animal with mammal-like characteristics that lived in the Permian Period and before the dinosaurs. Some information and pictures can be found here.
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Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Gallimimus Bullatus

For Students 9th - 10th
Gallimimus bullatus was a theropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous Period. Some information and pictures can be found here.
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Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc.: Stan T. Rex

For Students 9th - 10th
Stan T. Rex is the name given to a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton that was excavated and reconstructed by the Black Hills Institute. Stan is sixty-five percent bone and among the most complete T. Rex skeletons in the world that scientists...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Drawing Dinosaurs

For Students 3rd - 8th
A tutorial on how to draw a realistic dinosaur starting from a picture of a skeleton.
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Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Dinosaurs: Archaeopteryx Lithographica

For Students 3rd - 8th
Is it a feathered dinosaur, or the ancestor of birds? Find out about the Archaeopteryx lithographica whose fossil remains show feathers similar to that of a bird, and whose skeleton resembles that of a dinosaur.
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Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Dinosaur Eggs

For Students 9th - 10th
The Canadian Museum of Nature looks at the rare discoveries of fossil eggs.
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New Jersey Fossils: Duckbilled Dinosaur

For Students 9th - 10th
The duckbilled dinosaur was a type of hadrosaurus and existed in New Jersey in the Late Cretaceous Period. A few fossil specimens have been found in areas of New Jersey, with the very first partial skeleton being discovered in...
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Museums Victoria

Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Mamenchisaurus Hochuanensis

For Students 9th - 10th
Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis was an herbivorous Sauropod from the Late Jurassic Period, first discovered in China. Some information and pictures can be found here.
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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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Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Talarurus Plicatospineus

For Students 9th - 10th
Talarurus plicatospineus was an herbivorous ankylosaur from Mongolia that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period. Some information and pictures can be found here.
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Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Amargasaurus Cazaui

For Students 9th - 10th
Amargasaurus cazaui was an herbivorous sauropod first found in Argentina. It lived during the Early Cretaceous Period. Some information and pictures can be found here.
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Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Hypsilophodon Foxii

For Students 9th - 10th
Hypsilophodon foxii was an herbivorous Ornithopod from the Early Cretaceous Period. Its fossilized remains have been found in England. Some information and pictures can be found here.
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Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc.: Struthiomimus

For Students 9th - 10th
The Struthiomimus was a fast moving North American dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. It belonged to the Ornithomimosaur group of dinosaurs. A good description of the Struthiomimus is found on this page, as well as a slideshow...
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Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Quetzalcoatlus Northropi

For Students 9th - 10th
Quetzalcoatlus northropi was a carnivorous pterosaur larger than an African elephant. It lived during the Cretaceous Period. Some information and pictures can be found here.
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Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Pteranodon Sternbergi

For Students 9th - 10th
Pteranodon sternbergi was a prehistoric flying reptile that lived during the Cretaceous Period. Some information and pictures can be found here.

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