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DINOSAUR ANATOMY AND BEHAVIOR

General Anatomy

Size

Teeth

Herds, Packs

Offense

Defense

Reproduction, Nests & Eggs

Blood Pressure

Skeleton

Tails

Brains

Male or Female?

Skin

Diet

Locomotion

Life Span

Hot or Cold Blooded?

DINOSAUR OFFENSIVE WEAPONS AND MANEUVERS
Many dinosaurs were armed with built-in weapons that were used for killing and eating prey, for dealing with interspecies rivalry, or as protection from fellow carnivores (meat eaters). These included:

Big, sharp, pointed teeth - Largest, sharp teeth of most carnivores are for tearing flesh from prey.
Clawed feet - Many dinosaurs claws on feet and/or hands. Dromaeosaurids and Megaraptor had a huge retractible sickle-like claws on each foot.
Grasping hands with clawed fingers - good for catching and slashing prey.
Large size - Some dinosaurs, like Giganotosaurus and T. rex were so large that they were at the top of the food chain, and could eat any animal that they could catch.
Speed and agility- In order to eat, a predator must catch its prey. The only surviving dinosaurs, the birds, evolved from the speedy, bird-like theropods.
Modern-day birds have excellent good color vision; it is likely that the bird-like dinosaurs (advanced theropods like the coelurosaurs) also had color vision. This would have helped them find and catch their prey (just as hawks use their acute vision to spot prey).

ZoomDinosaurs.com
DINOSAUR ANATOMY AND BEHAVIOR
General Anatomy Size Teeth Herds, Packs Offense Defense Reproduction, Nests & Eggs Blood Pressure
Skeleton Tails Brains Male or Female? Skin Diet Locomotion Life Span Hot or Cold Blooded?

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