Animals walk on four legs because it is more stable than walking on two legs. Dinosaurs were very large, and it would have taken a lot of energy for them to walk on two legs. The ones who did walk on two legs were usually predators (like Tyrannosaurus rex or velociraptor) because they could get more energy from eating other animals than from eating plants.
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∙ 15y agoHadrosaurs and Iguanodon could walk on either two or four legs. They probably used four legs most of the time, but they could run on two legs.
Hadrosaurs and Iguanodonts are both known to have walked on four legs. However, they could stand, walk, or run on two legs when it was useful.
four legs
Quadrupedal. And it means walking on four legs whether you're a dinosaur, a dog, or a gecko. Quadrupedal is the Latin... the Greek equivalent is Tetrapodal. Both mean four-footed, and both are used to describe animals that move on four limbs.
How "many" legs can a dinosaur have - two to four legs
Triceratops are very large dinosaurs that had trouble lifting their body weight. Because of natural selection the dinosaur adapted to walking on four of it's legs instead of two.
bipedal
Bronasaurus, or long neck.The most common called name for that dinosaur is long neck.
They can walk on two or four legs. If they are running, they typically run on 4 legs.
They can but they typically walk on four legs.
No. Koalas walk on four legs.
Tortoises have four legs that they walk with.