How dinosaurs lived

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  How dinosaurs fed

  Dinosaurs can be divided into plant-eaters or meat-eaters, although some may have been omnivores: they ate both animals and plants. The shape of a dinosaur’s jaws or teeth is...

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  Dinosaur movement

  The ability to walk upright on straight legs was the key to the dinosaurs’ success. All other types of reptiles moved by sprawling (like lizards), or by straightening their legs...

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  Dinosaur herding and courtship

  From the evidence of “mass graves”, fossilized remains of hundreds of individuals found close together, we know that a number of plant-eating dinosaur species must have lived...

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  Dinosaur nests

  The discovery of fossilized dinosaur eggs, the nests that they were hatched in and even the baby dinosaurs inside the eggs, has given palaeontologists a great deal of information...

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  How dinosaurs hunted

  Among the theropods, the meat-eating dinosaurs, were not only giant predators such as Allosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex but also a wide range of smaller hunters. From the study of...

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  Dinosaur defences

  Like modern herbivores, different dinosaurs had ways of defending themselves. These included: herding together, running away, camouflage and defensive armour, as well the active...

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  Feathered dinosaurs

  Palaeontologists now know from the fossil evidence that some dinosaurs had not the scaly skins of today’s reptiles, but coats of feathers—much more like their living...

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  How T. rex lived

  The largest and best preserved specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex ever found was discovered in 1990 at the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in western South Dakota, USA. It—we do not...

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  Discovering dinosaur fossils

  All we know about the dinosaurs has been gleaned from the study of their fossils. This science is called palaeontology. Much information can be gained—a dinosaur’s size, the...

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  Recreating dinosaurs

  The 2015 movie Jurassic World features a genetically modified dinosaur, called Indominus rex ("Untamable king"). It is a species of theropod (flesh-eating dinosaur) called an...

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