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DINO EXPERIMENT 820

QUESTION: Who left the dino poop outside Grandma’s barn?!

BACKGROUND RESEARCH NOTES:

Herbivore = a dinosaur that eats plants (hay, grass, leaves…)

Carnivore = a dinosaur that eats meat (lizards, mammals, other dinosaurs…)

Omnivore = a dinosaur that eats BOTH plants and meat!

MY PLAN:

GLOVES ON! I’ll need to investigate the dinosaur poop I found at Grandma’s barn

to see what type of dinosaur it came from. If the dinosaur eats meat, Grandma’s animals could be in trouble!

FIELD NOTES:

6.I see hay in the poop, so it must belong to a herbivore. AND I see an Amargasaurus nearby, she must be hanging around to eat the farm animals’ hay! Experiment solved!

»Experiment back on! Because there is also a Troodon near the barn! The Troodon eats plants and animals, so I better check the poop again.

7.I found a bone in the poop! Since there is hay AND bone in the poop, it must be from the Troodon! Experiment solved!

»Nope! Because I just saw a T. rex! But the T. rex eats meat, so why would there be hay in its poop?

8.Grandma helped me figure it out! The poop COULD be from the T. rex, because the T. rex ATE dinosaurs that ate hay! Experiment FINALLY solved!

FINDING:

Even though carnivores only ate other animals, their poop could still have plants in it because some of the animals they ate had plants in their stomachs when the carnivore ate them! Isn’t that interesting?