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Contents

Fasten Your Seatbelts! .................................................................... 8

A Message from Elliott’s Parents ........................................................... 9

A Message from Christine Cade ............................................................ 9

Did You Know. .. ......................................................................... 10

New Discoveries ......................................................................... 11

Before Dinosaurs .. . ...................................................................... 12

Dimetrodon ............................................................................. 13

The Origins of Dinosaurs .................................................................. 14

Dinosaur Diets ........................................................................... 16

The Difference Between Saurischians and Ornithischians ...................................... 17

Attack and Defense ...................................................................... 18

Reproduction and Social Life .............................................................. 19

What Colors Were the Dinosaurs? .......................................................... 20

Getting Around .......................................................................... 20

Dinosaur Skeletons and Human Skeletons ................................................... 21

Dinosaurs of the Triassic

Coelophysis ............................................................................. 24

Plateosaurus ............................................................................ 25

Lessemsaurus ........................................................................... 26

Herrerasaurus ........................................................................... 27

Dinosaurs of the Jurassic

Diplodocus .............................................................................. 30

Allosaurus............................................................................... 31

Dacentrurus ............................................................................. 32

Archaeopteryx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Dinosaurs of theCretaceous

Triceratops .............................................................................. 36

Tyrannosaurus ........................................................................... 37

Therizinosaurus .......................................................................... 38

Troodon ................................................................................ 39

Extinction of the Dinosaurs ................................................................ 40

After the Dinosaurs ....................................................................... 42

A Paleontologist’s Tools ................................................................... 44

From the Dig to the Lab ................................................................... 45

References .............................................................................. 46

Glossary and Acknowledgments ........................................................... 47

Photo Credits ............................................................................ 48