Dinosaurs

When dinosaur bones were first found they thought that they belonged
to giant lizards. The word "dinosaur" means "terrible lizard". The larger
must have seemed to be terrible to the smaller animals. Some of
the first were only about as big as a small dog. That is how big
the horses of that time were. Over the years, as the dinosaurs aged, they
grew to be much more large in size. The sizes of dinosaurs ranged greatly,
all the way from two feet long to one hundred and fifty feet long. They
weighed as much as fifty tons, which is seven African Bull Elephants.We
first discovered the fossils and bones shortly under the surface of the
Earth. After scientists got more into the study they ...

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dinosaurs came from six million years
back. They also say that the Earth is four to six billion years old. They
say that fifty million years ago there was horses no bigger than dogs, and
birds as tall as man, three hundred million years ago giant dragon flies
buzzed around in the large forests, six million years ago small animals,
called trilobites, lived in the sea and were rulers of the world.
Evolutionists think that the world started off with just plants on it, then
came many- legged animals from the sea (walking fish) that took over. They
feel that a certain kind of fish evolved into the first four-footed animals.
After millions of years those animals tuned into dinosaurs. That is how
dinosaurs got started. Then finally the dinosaurs died off and little,
furry, four-legged creatures appeared. These animals were called mammals,
which then took over the world. Then those mammals evolved into man. The
Evolutionists believe, very strongly, that dinosaurs were extinct ...

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Added: 5/11/2007 07:02:52 AM
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