Dinosaurs Facts for Kids
Roar-some facts about dinosaurs
The plates on a Stegosaurus back may have flushed with colour by filling with blood, possibly to attract mates or scare enemies.
Almost all meat-eating dinosaurs walked on two legs, while most plant-eaters walked on four.
Sue, the most complete T. rex skeleton ever found, is over 90% intact and is displayed at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Scientists have found evidence of cancer in dinosaur bones, proving that the disease has existed for at least 77 million years.
T. rex probably could not stick out its tongue. Its tongue was likely anchored to the floor of its mouth, much like a crocodile's.
Not all dinosaurs were huge! Some, like Parvicursor, were about the size of a house cat.
Despite what films suggest, DNA breaks down over time and cannot survive for 66 million years, so cloning a dinosaur from ancient DNA is currently impossible.
Giant sauropods like Brachiosaurus swallowed their food whole without chewing. They relied on their enormous stomachs to digest tough plants.
T. rex had forward-facing eyes that gave it binocular vision, meaning it could judge distances very accurately — just like humans can.
Fossils show that some dinosaurs lived in the Arctic, enduring months of darkness and near-freezing temperatures.