Probably, archeologists were shocked when they found during the excavation of huge dinosaur bones. We now know that many reptiles are harmless animals of gigantic proportions who lived peacefully in the woods, eating grass. Some dinosaurs were huge, with an entire tennis court, and the other - a little like chicken. In some skin was smooth, while others - covered with scales, and he and all the horny shell that protects the body. In addition, some dinosaurs had horns or spikes. We know of about 600 varieties of dinosaurs. Dinosaurs lived on almost all continents of the Earth. But most of all evidence of their existence found in the Americas and Asia. English scientist Richard Owen (1804 - 1892) found a large number of huge bones. The beasts, skeletons he discovered he introduced very scary, and he called them "terrible lizards" or dinosaurs. Since they are called. It is believed that dinosaurs lived in the Mesozoic (ie average) age. The Mesozoic era began 225 million years ago and ended 65 million years ago. During this period, change the size of the continental part of the Earth and the continents were formed.
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