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🦖 The Age of Dinosaurs

Stomp back in time to meet the dinosaurs and discover how their world ended!

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~15 min

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🔬 Science

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Ages 6–12

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What you’ll learn

Learners can place dinosaurs in the Mesozoic Era and describe their variety, including T. rex and armored plant-eaters.Dinosaurs ruled during the Mesozoic Era (252 to 66 million years ago) across the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous. They ranged from tiny to enormous, with fierce hunters like T. rex and armored plant-eaters like Triceratops and Stegosaurus.
Learners can explain how fossils reveal dinosaurs, what caused their extinction, and why birds are living dinosaurs.Paleontologists learn about dinosaurs from fossils. About 66 million years ago a giant asteroid caused a mass extinction of the non-bird dinosaurs. Birds descended from feathered dinosaurs, and scientists keep making new discoveries.

Questions this course answers

During which era did dinosaurs rule the Earth?

Dinosaurs ruled during the Mesozoic Era, from about 252 to 66 million years ago, split into three periods.

What do we call dinosaurs that ate only plants?

Plant-eating dinosaurs are called herbivores. Meat-eaters are called carnivores.

Which dinosaur had three horns and a bony neck frill?

Triceratops had three sharp horns and a large bony frill to protect itself from predators.

How do scientists learn about dinosaurs?

Scientists study fossils, the preserved bones, teeth, eggs, and footprints of ancient dinosaurs.

What likely caused the dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago?

A giant asteroid struck Earth, blocking sunlight and collapsing the food chain, causing a mass extinction.

Which modern animals are living descendants of dinosaurs?

Birds are the living descendants of small, feathered dinosaurs, so they are modern dinosaurs!

Grounded in trusted sources

Britannica, 'Mesozoic Era' (britannica.com/science/Mesozoic-Era)
U.S. Geological Survey, 'Mesozoic' (usgs.gov)
National Geographic Kids, 'Dinosaurs'
U.S. National Park Service, 'Mass Extinctions Through Geologic Time' (nps.gov)

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