What kind of environment did the Spinosaurus dinosaur live in?
Spinosaurus lived in North Africa from Morocco to Egypt between 112 and 97 million years ago. The climate there was tropical, and the landscape was a coastal tidal plain with mangrove swamps. Spinosaurus was adapted for a piscivorous, or fish eating, lifestyle because of its long, narrow jaws filled with narrow, interlocking teeth.
What is habitat of the triassic period?
During the Triassic Period, the landmasses formation was a single continent called the Pangaea. Due to the continent size, the inland were far from the oceans. Desert areas were wide and the moisture needed for vegetation are only around the continent's edges.
Which dinosaur is found in almost every continent?
During the Mesozoic, the time when dinosaurs existed, the continents were closer together, and the formation and elimination of land bridges due to rises and falls in sea level would have allowed dinosaurs to cross from one continent to another. And, during the beginning of the Mesozoic, all of the continents were massed together into the supercontinent Pangaea, so that oceans would not have formed barriers between continents. Also, some dinosaurs could swim, and because the seas that separated the continents were much narrower than they are today, they may have occasionally been able to cross.
What prehistoric animals lived in North Carolina?
Passenger pigeon, eastern timber wolf, eastern cougar, bison, eastern elk.
What is the Largest plant eating dinosaur?
The biggest dinosaur is probably ultrasauros. We only have a few bones of this late Jurassic (140 million years ago) plant-eater from Colorado, but the bones show an animal who was six-stories high and may have weighed more than 50 tons. A four-legged plant-eating dinosaur found recently in Argentina, argentinasaurus, may have been even heavier than ultrasauros. If it was a brachiosaur like ultrauros then it probably was the biggest, but if it was a titanosaur, another kind of big plant-eater common in South America, it wouldn't have been so bulky.
'Raptor' was referred to a Velociraptor. The scientific name for these raptors is Velociraptor mongolienensis
Was it a flood that wiped out the dinos?
No. Dinosaurs succumbed to extinction due to what scientists believe would have been one or more catastrophic events such as increased volcanic activity and massive asteroid impacts that devastated the Earth at the end of the Mesozoic era. While the dinos were going into what would have been their Cenozoic Era, something known as the Cretacious-Tertiary extinction event occured. These events are believed to have critically disarrayed the planet's natural habitability due to altered sunlight which detrimented the photosynthesis pattern that occurs in plant life. It is unquestionable that this is what was the scientific end of dinosaurs.
What animals lived in pangaea?
there were several groups of creatures on Pangaea. but for going the insects there where 4 major groups amphibians, anapsids diapsids and therapsids. the amphibians where remnants from the coniforus still large but not dominante on land anymore. anapsids accounted for a good chunk of life on land at this time. therapsids or so called mamal like reptials (eventualy evolved into mamals) where very common but the ones you know about are the diapsids. thees included crocidiles lizards and dinosaurs.
What are the remains of the dinosaurs today?
The remains of a dinosaur are a little more than fossils today but a lot of dinosaur sightings have been reported and scientists have even found a Congolese sauropod-type creature called Mokele-mbembe by the locals. It was visible above Lake Tele's waterline and its visible body parts were as high as 5 meters
What was the largest dinosaur meat eater?
The largest carnivore found so far is a mystery. Although Tyrannosaurus is the smartest, strongest and quickest of all large carnivorous dinosaurs, it wasn't the largest. Some dinosaur experts say Giganotosaurus is the biggest of all flesh-eating dinosaurs. Others think Mapusaurus is the biggest. Recent discoveries show that the North American Saurophagonax is the worlds biggest dinosaurium carnivore. Most people agree that Spinosaurus holds the new record
Is there dinosaurs when the earth was formed?
Not that anyone knows of. Though theories have been proven wrong before, all Dinosaur fossils that have been observed have been from 65 million years ago or older.
Where all dinosaurs with feathers able to fly?
Most did not. There were only very few like the pterodactyl capable of flight
Who were the enemies of the dimetrodon?
ones like young t-rexes, dromaosaurids (raptors) and deinosuchus (giant crocidiles)
When is the dinosaur breeding season?
It will be like 'after one year' and if the mother dinosaur gets a baby dinosaur it will keep it and if the baby does not grow the mother dinosaur will not keep it and some other dinosaur will kill it and eat.WELL this the answer
What is the time range in which dinosaurs lived on earth?
* During the Triassic period, all land on Earth existed as one enormous mass. It was called Pangaea. The supercontinent slowly began to break up during the Triassic Period. * Some reptiles, frogs, turtles and crocodiles existed earlier, but dinosaurs didn't appear until late in the Triassic period. * The period marked the rise of small, lightly built dinosaurs. * The first mammals evolved during the Triassic period. * Most of the plants that existed were evergreens. * The period ended with a mass extinction that wiped out most animals and reptiles. An entire order of plants or animals dies out in a mass extinction. The dinosaurs that survived flourished in the next period, the Jurassic. Dinosaurs that lived during the Triassic period include: Coelophysis ("hollow form"; found in the U.S.): a 9-foot long carnivore that was quick on its feet Desmatosuchus ("link crocodile"; found in Texas): a reptile that looked like a crocodile and had sharp spikes on its back Eoraptor ("dawn thief"; found in Argentina): the earliest-known dinosaur; walked on two feet Ichthyosaurs("fish lizards"; found in England, Germany, Greenland and Canada): this order of marine reptiles dominated the ocean during the Triassic period Iguanadon ("iguana teeth"; found in North America, Europe and Asia): the first dinosaur to be discovered; its bones and teeth are different from any other known reptile Plateosaurus ("flat lizard"; found in dozens of sites in Europe): an herbivore that had five-fingered hands with a clawed thumb Proganochelys (found in Germany and Thailand): the earliest-known turtle = JURASSIC = * The supercontinent continued to break apart * Dinosaurs ruled the land and flourished during the period * Herbivores and carnivores increased in size; some of the largest dinosaurs emerged during the Jurassic period * Birdlike dinosaurs first appeared * Flowering plants began to appear late in the period * The Jurassic period also ended with an extinction, but it was not as extensive as the one in the Triassic period. Only a few types of dinosaurs died out. Dinosaurs that lived during the Juraissic period include: Allosaurus ("different lizard"; found in western North America): the biggest meat-eater of the period, measuring about 40 feet long Apatosaurus formerly called Brontosaurus ("deceptive lizard"; found in the western U.S.): the dinosaur measured between 70 and 90 feet, but its head was only about 2 feet long Archaeopteryx ("ancient wing"; found in Germany): one of the earliest-known birds, this creature shared many characteristics with dinosaurs Compsognathus ("pretty jaw"; found in Germany, France and Portugal): the smallest-known dinosaur was about the same size as a chicken Diplodocus ("double-beamed"; found in western North America): At 90 feet long, this was one of the longest land animals Mamenchisaurus ("Mamenchin lizard"; found in China): this dinosaur's neck measured an amazing 46 feet long Stegosaurus("plated lizard"; found in U.S., Europe, India, China and Africa): a three-ton giant with the brain the size of a walnut = CRETACEOUS = * Pangaea continued to separate into smaller continents * A wide variety of dinosaurs roamed the land * Birds flourished and spread all over the globe * Flowering plants developed * Mammals flourished * Dinosaurs became extinct by the end of the period. The extinction, the second largest of all time, marked the end of the Age of Reptiles and the beginning of the Age of Mammals. Dinosaurs that lived during the Cretaceous period include: Ankylosaurus ("bent/crooked lizard"; found it Montana and Alberta, Canada): the most heavily armed dinosaur, with bony plates, studs and spikes lining its entire back Giganotosaurus carolinii: ("giant southern lizard"; found in Argentina): measuring about 45 feet long and weighing about 8 tons, it holds the record as the largest carnivore Hadrosaurus ("bulky lizard"; found in New Jersey): this herbivore had a toothless bill but many cheek teeth Megaraptor ("huge robber"; found in Argentina): a fast runner with a sickle-shaped claw on each foot Orinthomimus ("bird mimic"; found in China): at an estimated 40 to 50 miles per hour, this was the fastest dinosaur Seismosaurus ("seismic lizard"; found in New Mexico): considered the largest dinosaur, it measured 120 feet long and stood about 18 feet high Triceratops ("three-horned face"; found in Canada and western U.S.): this quadraped (four-footed) dinosaur walked on its four stumpy legs and used the three horns on its head for protection. Troodon ("wounding tooth"; found in North America and Asia): largest brain-to-body ration of all known dinosaurs; believed to be as intelligent as modern birds Tyrannosaurus rex ("tyrant lizard"; found in North America and Asia): T. rex, king of the dinosaurs, dominated the period.
What factor contributed to the split of two groups of anthropoids about 45 million years ago?
drift of the continents
What do scientists believe dinosaurs evolved from?
Birds, which are not just considered descendants of dinosaurs; they are dinosaurs.
Why Amphicoelias is a biggest herbivorous dinosaur?
No. Diplodocus was up there but was not the biggest.
What evidence do you have that dinosaurs lived during the same time as people?
On the contrary, all the evidence shows that, excluding birds, all dinosaurs died out long before people evolved. Dinosaur fossils date to 65.5 million years ago or later, and human fossils date to less than 2.3 million years ago. However, if you count birds as dinosaurs, then the proof is that they're still here today.
Did megalodons give live birth or lay eggs?
It likely had live birth, through either semi-placental or internal egg carriage.
Since no egg remnants have been found, the giant Megalodon shark was likely viviparous, growing a small number of placental young within the female shark, as with requiem sharks (family Carcharhinidae).
However, it might have been ovoviviparous, where the female lays eggs internally, and then releases the live hatchlings, as with the Great White Shark (family Lamnidae).