How are dinos named?
Normally after a body feature, place of discovery or after the discoverer. Name comprises two Greek or Latin words which are the genus (plural, genera) and the species name e.g. the Greek and Latin combination (binomen) Tyrannosaurus rex means “king of the tyrant lizards.” How did they communicate? They displayed defensive postures, love and fights through vocal and visual signs. Triceratops bull when angry would shake his head and make him understood! What followed dinos? Dinosaurs became extinct nearly 65 million years ago. Only small mammals, shrew-sized primates, coexisted with dinosaurs. In China there was a real match to dinosaurs in some mammals who tore chunks of small dinos and swallowed them without even chewing. Mammals developed once dinos faded away. How fast did dinos run? Several methods have been used to calculate their speed. Two basic methods involve comparing with recorded speeds of modern animals with similar size and build up. Distances between fossil footprints in
