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What is this?
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Dinosaur-like Has teeth Has a tail Lived in the Jurassic Period
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Bird-like Feathers (and flight?) Hollowed bones Large brain
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What makes and animal a dinosaur?
underslung legs that gave dinosaurs an erect posture a large hole in the bottom of their basin-shaped hip-socket a secondary palate (uncharacteristic of reptiles) that permits dinosaurs to eat and breathe at the same time a fairly straight thigh bone with an in-turned head two pairs of holes in the temporal region of the skull (diapsid skull)
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Continued… backward-pointing knees (or elbows) of the front legs
forward-pointing knees of the rear legs (rather than pointing sideways) front legs shorter and lighter than the rear legs (in almost every case) a special bone (predentary) at the chin that capped the front of the bottom jaw in some dinosaurs (the ornithischians) land-dwelling creature, rather than marine or airborne
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Ancient Reptiles Pterosaurs (Flying reptiles)
Mosasaurs (Marine reptiles)
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