How many legs did your dinosaur stand on?
Mos species of dinosaur walked on 4 legs, but some, including all carnivorous dinosaurs, walked on 2 legs.
Did whales come before the dinosaurs?
the simple answer is: no.
whales are mammals that evolved in the Cenozoic era. dinosaurs predate whale evolution, and existed in the mesozoic era.
to give an idea: the last dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago.
this is the end of the mesozoic era. it's typically referred to as the K-T boundary, and the cataclysmic event that caused this extinction is usually called the K-T event. K for cretaceous, T for tertiary. that doesn't make much sense until you realize that; C is for Cambrian, and the K was chosen by German scientists.
whales are thought to have evolved from an ancestor similar to modern day hippos (this means both whales and hippos can be traced back to a common ancestor) about 54 million years ago. that's at least 11 million years after dinosaurs died out.
what can happen in millions of years? a lot.
the ambulocetus ("walking whale") formed about 50 million years ago.
the protocetus ("early whale") appears around 45 million years ago.
the basilosaurus ("king lizard") rather unfortunately named, lived between 40-34million years ago.
you can find many more forms, and as we get to 15 million years ago, you find creatures that look very similar to our toothed whales (dolphins, orca, etc.) and you find creatures that look very similar to our baleen whales (humpbacks, blue whales, etc.) by this point, all traces (aside from some vestigial bones) of legs are gone. hands look like flippers. the "melon organ" for echolocation is present.
it kind of makes you wonder what future evolution holds.
What is the biggest dinosaur in the ocean?
Strictly speaking, the sea lizards were NOT dinosaurs, but their contemporaries. The largest of these was probably the Liopleurodon. An even bigger creature, Basilosaurus, was, despite the name, not a sea lizard, but a whale.
Dinosaurs ate a variety of things - it depends on the type of dinosaur. Some were herbivorous and ate plants, others like T. Rex were Carnivorous and predated on other organisms. Some smaller dinosaurs were insectivores.
Did the troodon live in the Cretaceous period?
. Some people think that it is extinct and others don't (I think its still alive).
Sorry but this question unfortunately cannot be answered, because no one knows if its still alive or not. This question can be answered this way. Say it was extinct. Probably it died cause the climate changed or because it ran out of Why are megalodons estinct. There are many reasons. Another one is it probably died because other animals ate it or humans killed it. That is a stupid reason so ignore that. If it is still alive (I really hope it is), then its probably in the deeper and colder waters. A legend says that they live in the phillipean sea. In the is a tr phillipean sea there is a sea beneath it called the panthela sea. In the panthela sea there is a Trench that is called the Mariana Trench. I don't know if you've heard of this trench or sea before, but its only a legend. It could be true, (I hope it is cause the world needs to Why are megalodons estinct something). No offense. So the legend says that the megalodon lives in the Mariana Trench. It could be possible cause we humans only explored 5% of the water on earth. This is sad. I mean if we got more better technism then we could probably go down there and see. 95of % the water on earth has not been explored so the megalodons and not only them, but other prehistoric creatures long believed to be extinct could be living down there. Now I mean water born prehistoric creatures (creatures that live in the water). This could actually be true, but don't be so sure. It's only a legend. A very good and probably true legend. I'll tell you, these prehistoric creatures once lived and could still be alive (not all of them) roaming the seas we have not yet explored. Who knows. Cause what if we do explore them, in the future. These creatures could be right beneath us swimming around, searching and doing what they need to do to survive. This could be true and it could probably be a mistake, (but I think they are still alive if you ask me). I hope you learned from this info here. I did not make this up.
Why did dinosaurs evolve earlier than humans?
This isn't really a "why" question; but dinosaurs were not here first - for thousands of millions of years the stromatolitedominated life on Earth. In geological terms, the dinosaurs came along fairly recently.
One reason why large mammals (such as ourselves) did not evolve until after the end of the cretacious brought the end of the dinosaurs, is that there were few environmental "niches" - large mammals would have to compete with large dinosaurs. It was only with environmental changes causing the mass extinction at the end of the cretacious that mammals were able to survive where the dinosaurs could not (at least in their existing forms, there's good evidence that modern birds evolved from dinosaurs).
Were dinosaurs the first animals?
No. Dinosaurs are relatively recent animals in the history of earth. There were other animals around hundreds of milliions of years before dinosaurs, including multitudes of primitive sea critters, insects, fish, amphibians, and reptiles.
What are dinosaurs and when did they live?
Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that are most well known for having lived in the Mesozoic era from about 230 million years ago until and extinction even 65.5 million years ago. Some of the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic were the largest animals every to live on land. The largest of them long-necked herbivores called sauropods were comparable in size and weight to whales. The first dinosaurs were two legged animals. While many evolved back into a four legged posture two groups, ornithopods and theropods remained on two legs. The theropods included all carnivorous dinosaurs. Among these were animals such as Tyrannosaurus, Spinosaurus, and similar sized animals which were the largest of all land predators.
Dinosaurs were initially though to have been sluggish and cold-blooded like modern reptiles. However, evidence now shows that many dinosaurs were likely warm-blooded, with active lifestyles and shared more in common with birds than with modern reptiles. Contrary to popular depictions more and more dinosaurs, most of them small theropods such as velociraptor, are being found to have had feathers.
Through studying fossil records paleontologists have found that birds are actually dinosaurs that evolved from small theropods. So it is now known that dinosaurs are still around in feathered form.
What type of dinosaurs were herbivores?
The tallest herbivore dinosaur was Sauroposiden.
At 56ft high and 98ft long Sauroposeidon is the tallest and one of the longest dinosaurs in the world, only then to be beaten by Argentinosaurus. Don't believe me go check it out on Wikipeidia.
A Dinosaur called Brachiosaurus, Was once the tallest Dinosaur. But now the Highest is one called Sauresposeidon.
Dinosaurs with 12 letters in their name?
One example of a dinosaur with 12 letters in its name is "Stegosaurus." Stegosaurus is a herbivorous dinosaur known for its distinctive plates along its back and spikes on its tail. This dinosaur lived during the Late Jurassic period, around 155 to 150 million years ago.
No. Cavemen and dinosaurs never co-existed meaning they didn't work together. They lived at different times, dinosaurs then cavemen. If they did, the carnivore dinosaurs would of eaten the cavemen and of those that are herbivores, they could be trampled to death.
Was the Ice Age the cause of the mass extinction of the Dinosaurs?
No. The dinosaurs (with the exception of birds) became extinct 65.5 million years ago. The first Ice Age began about 2 million years ago, which was 63 million years after the dinosaurs had died out.
Is a pachycephalosaurus a bipedal dinosaur?
yes, T-rex could only walk on two feet because it's front arms/legs were very tiny.
What happened 50-40 millions years ago?
In Canada and Scotland, not much. It was the middle of the most recent ice age and both those areas were covered in thick ice even in winter: no trees, no grass, no people. The tropics were more interesting.
Dinosaurs are extinct now.They lived before man and woman(known as humans)appeared.(Everyone knows that so you should too unless you want to test someone.)
What are 3 pieces of evidence that supports why dinosaurs became extinct due to a comet?
There is strong evidence that an extraterrestrial object impacted near the Yucatan peninsula. There is also evidence that a boundary layer was formed that is rich in iridium. The most plausible origin of this iridium is an extraterrestrial impact. Below that layer, dinosaur bones are present and above that zone there are none. If I had to bet, I'd bet that the comet killed them by the effects of the impact.
To bite into prey or bite leaves, dinosaurs needed teeth. The T. Rex had the biggest teeth of all dinosaurs to deliver a killing bite to its prey. The sauropods had front teeth but no back teeth. The spinosaur adapted to eating fish and so had a mouth like crocodiles.
How people lived 100 years ago?
they lived like animals
Live was harder 100 years ago, but people were as civilized as they are now in most of the world. More people lived on farms than do today and electricity was not widely available in the country. Cars were just coming into common use. Roads were not very good as a whole. Community gatherings were the main source of entertainment. Long distance telephone service was poor and expensive so people wrote more letters. Local mail service was better in towns than it is now. Virtually every town had a railway station and they ran many trains that made many stops.
What do you call someone obsessed with dinosaurs?
A person that hunts dinosaur bones is called a paleontologist.
Did the Lesothosaurus live in herds or alone?
From what I have researched (not too much) the Ankylosaurus lived alone in most cases but in some cases in herds
Hope This was useful
Dinosaurs were not invented. They evolved from a group of small, bipedal reptiles about 230 million years ago.
How would you reconstruct a dinosaur skeleton?
they take the body parts and sort of " fit them together" like a puzzle piece. Usually a big body goes with a big head. Most of its common sense, but also some of it is really complicated. =) hope this helped!
What is the chinese animal for january?
The Chinese name the Year after animals, not the month. Although March is generally linked to the Rabbit
What type of dinosaur that lives in water and on land?
Generally most mesozoic dinosaurs didn't live in water. For the most part they were land creatures.
It is now known that birds are theropod dinosaurs. There are some birds that spend a lot of time in water like penguins and the extinct Hesperornithiformes. Ducks spend a lot of time floating on water.
There where other animals living in oceans during the Mesozoic called Plesiosaurs and Icthyosaurs. These are NOT dinosaurs.
Examples of these creatures:
Plesiosaurs:
Elasmosaurus
Liopleurodon
Icthyosaurs:
Shonisaurus
Cymbospondylus