The biggest plant-eating dinosaurs were much bigger than the biggest meat-eaters.
For example, the giant plant-eating Argentinosaurus (it was found in the South American country of Argentina) was longer than three school buses and weighed more than twenty elephants!
The Tyrannosaurus rex was only about as long as one school bus and it weighed less than one big elephant!
There are colorful words to describe groups of animals: a gaggle of geese, a pride of lions, a leap of leopards, a parliament of owls. Can you think of names for groups of dinosaurs? A terror of Tyrannosauruses?
Alligators have little black dots all over their faces. Not long ago, a scientist named Daphne Soares figured out that these dots are sensors. They allow the alligator to feel even the smallest movement in the water. Crocodiles have similar sensors all over their bodies!
Many things can become fossils, even dino poop! Fossilized poop is called a coprolite. The “-lite” part of this word means “rock.”
Some scientists think that when the giant asteroid smashed into the Earth 65 million years ago, it threw up a wall of dirt and rock that reached halfway to the moon!
Want to find out more about some of the weirdest creatures that have ever lived on Earth? Read these books!
Dinosaurs! The Biggest Baddest Strangest Fastest by Howard Zimmerman (New York: Atheneum, 2000). Would you like to meet a thirty-foot-long Therizinosaurus with two-foot-long claws? You can do it safely in this book.
Beyond the Dinosaurs! Sky Dragons Sea Monsters Mega-Mammals and Other Prehistoric Beasts by Howard Zimmerman (New York: Atheneum, 2001). Not every bizarre creature that lived millions of years ago was a dinosaur. Get to know other ones here!
Extreme Dinosaurs by Luis V. Rey (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001). This book has fantastic paintings of dino action in the landscapes you would have seen millions of years ago.
T. Rex: Hunter or Scavenger? by Dr. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. (New York: Random House, 2003).
Raptor Pack by Dr. Robert T. Bakker (New York: Random House, 2003). Hang out with raptors for a day!
Maximum Triceratops by Dr. Robert T. Bakker (New York: Random House, 2004). Spend time with a feisty vegetarian!
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Andrew, Judy, and Thudd’s
next exciting adventure—
ANDREW LOST IN THE ICE AGE
Available October 2005
Why are we stuck in dinosaur time? thought ten-year-old Andrew Dubble, strapped inside the Time-A-Tron time-travel vehicle. Outside, a forest fire was roaring closer. Why aren’t we heading for the ice age?
Sitting next to Andrew, his thirteen-year-old cousin Judy was furiously pounding a button on the control panel.
“This better be the Fast-Forward button!” she said.
An asteroid the size of a city had just slammed into the Earth and set off an enormous explosion. It had heated the surface of the Earth to a thousand degrees and started fires all around the world.
“Oops!” came a voice from the backseat. It was Beeper Jones, the boy they had rescued 300 million years ago. “I lost my camera. I think it fell off my belt when I was getting into the Time-A-Tron. I gotta go get it. It’s got the only pictures of dinos ever taken!”
“Oh no you don’t,” said Professor Winka Wilde, grabbing him by the neck of his T-shirt.
“The fire will be here in seconds and the air may be too hot to breathe,” said Winka.
Beeper yanked himself away. In an instant he had pulled up the door in the floor and jumped down into the lower compartment.
“Beeper!” yelled Winka Wilde. “Get back here!”
Text copyright © 2005 by J. C. Greenburg.
Illustrations copyright © 2005 by Jan Gerardi.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Greenburg, J. C. (Judith C.)
With the dinosaurs / by J. C. Greenburg; illustrated by Jan Gerardi. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (Andrew Lost; 11) A Stepping Stone book.
SUMMARY: When Beeper accidentally releases the escape hatch to
the Time-A-Tron, the time travelers must protect themselves from
the world’s most fearsome creature, Tyrannosaurus rex.
eISBN: 978-0-307-54957-0
[1. Tyrannosaurus rex—Fiction. 2. Dinosaurs—Fiction.
3. Time travel—Fiction. 4. Cousins—Fiction.] I. Gerardi, Jan, ill.
II. Title. III. Series: Greenburg, J. C. (Judith C). Andrew Lost; v 11.
PZ7.G82785Wi 2005 [Fic]—dc22 2004024350
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