Dinosaurs Facts for Kids

The Stegosaurus had a brain about the size of a walnut, even though it was as big as a bus.

Pteranodon had a wingspan of up to 23 feet — wider than many small airplanes.

Ankylosaurs were so heavily armored that even their eyelids were made of bone.

T. rex had the strongest bite of any land animal ever, with a force of over 12,000 pounds.

Spinosaurus was even larger than T. rex and is the biggest meat-eating dinosaur ever discovered.

Some sauropod dinosaurs had necks over 30 feet long — longer than a school bus.

Even the biggest dinosaurs laid eggs no bigger than a basketball because larger eggs would have shells too thick for babies to break out of.

Parasaurolophus had a hollow crest on its head that it may have used like a trumpet to make booming sounds.

The first dinosaur to be scientifically named was Megalosaurus in 1824.

Compsognathus was one of the smallest dinosaurs ever found, about the size of a chicken.