Page 9 - The Dinosaur Book and Other Wonders of the Prehistoric World (DK-Smithsonian)

Nothosaurus

ever walked the Earth. They included gigantic beasts Jeholornis
that weighed as much as 12 elephants; terrifying Throughout this book, you will find scale boxes that
show the sizes of animals compared to either a child,
hunters that could bite their way through solid bone; a school bus, or a human hand.
and strange creatures with horns, frills, and
even feathers.
The giant dinosaurs were wiped out in a global Child = 4 ft 9 in
catastrophe 66 million years ago. But their fossils (1.45 m) tall
survive, along with other fossils that show, beyond
doubt, that many of their smaller, feathery relatives
were able to fly. Some of these feathered dinosaurs
survived the disaster to flourish in the new era School bus = 36 ft
as birds. So not only do fossils tell us about life in (11 m) wide
the distant past, they can also reveal astonishing
facts about animals that we see all around us Hand = 6 in
every day. (16 cm) long

John Woodward

Titanis

Waptia

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