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Although dinosaurs were the
largest land animals of all time, a majority
of them were smaller than a turkey!
Birds are believed to be the direct
descendants of dinosaurs and therefore the
only living dinosaurs today.The largest land dinosaurs like the
brachiosaurus and the diplodocus also had
the smallest brains!
The Stegosaurus’s brain was only as large as
a walnut.
Some scientists believe there were over 800
different species of dinosaurs.The smallest dinosaur was the Compsognathus,
which was the size of a chicken and had a
very long tail. It ran after insects.
The Utahraptor may have been the deadliest
dinosaur. It was a swift-running raptor with
a huge claw on the middle toe of each foot.
Elasmosaurus lived in the sea and probably
paddled along near the surface of the water.
It was about 46 feet long, but more than
half of its body length was a snakelike neck
that could whip into the water to snap up
fish.
The largest dinosaurs were over 100 feet (30
m) long and up to 50 feet (15 m) tall
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