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The time of the dinosaurs lasted for about 150 000 000 years and it was all over the planet, just as in our day our environment differs between say, the South Pole, the North Pole, the Congo, and England for example. Nor have we seen all the kinds of dinosaurs that lived in that period and in all those places. There were dinosaurs the size of rats and several times the size of elephants. There were dinosaurs on dry land, in swamps, in burrows, in the sea, up trees, up mountains and cliffs, in deserts, and on plains like buffalo and antelope. If you count a lot of other relatives of dinosaurs that were not really dinosaurs, such as crocodiles and pterosaurs, there even were reptiles in the air before there were definitely flying birds.

So, there was no particular environment that we could say was the "environment the dinosaurs lived in". By the time the dinosaurs lived the forests of the Carboniferous that had made the atmosphere especially full of oxygen were more than a hundred million years in the past. Temperatures in dinosaur days varied enormously because climate is always changing and on a scale of hundreds of millions of years it is changing like the pages of a flicker show. We do not know of any dinosaur polar bear, and throughout most of the age of the dinosaurs most of the planet was warmer than today, a sort of global warming, possibly with no ice caps or hardly any. It was not a time of "Snowball Earth" such as reigned a few hundred millions of years before, or even the late Carboniferous ice age tens to a couple of hundreds of millions of years before. There were not very spectacularly hot periods globally, but more like global warming. We believe that there were no specialised arctic dinosaurs. The warm poles and warm equatorial regions in the Cretaceous seem to have shut down a lot of the oceanic circulation, causing a lot of oxygen-starvation in the ocean deeps.

Remember that the dinosaurs and other living creatures were an important part of their own environment, and it changed almost out of recognition over a period of perhaps 150-200 million years. The dinosaurs and the planet of the late Cretaceous were very different from say, the mid-Triassic.

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Well no one really knows for sure for an example scientists don't actually know what the real colour of dinosaurs is. Scientists have some theories and they know some places where dinosaurs lived like in areas with a lot of trees and plants because herbavoires need plants and greens and carnovoires need meat so they lived near herbavoires to survive. Hope this helps :)

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I do not really no it but I think its on dry land

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swampy areas such as the forest

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They lived in cold US woodlands.

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