Dinosaurs have got their own cravings! So what do you think they loved to eat? Let’s discover five confident carnivorous dinosaurs facts for kids.
Carnivorous is a word that refers to an animal that only eats meat! So carnivorous dinosaurs were the predators of the Jurassic world – predator means to be the one who hunts their food!
The most iconic carnivorous dinosaur is the T-rex, but do you know that they are related to our modern-day chickens! Not only did birds come from the same family as T-rex but the huge meat eating dinosaur also had feathers to go along with its huge teeth!
These huge carnivores had to have a lot of special modifications in order to be able to live off only meat – because they would have to catch and eat their prey! One of these is the teeth! Carnivorous dinosaurs had serrated teeth (this means they were like the knife you cut bread with! They had extra sharp bumps!)
Some more of the things carnivorous dinosaurs developed in order to help the hunt their prey were: Sharp claws, strong jaws and strong senses of sight and smell – so that they could sneak around and catch their prey.
Dinosaurs have cool names like the Velociraptor that gets its name from being a sneaky carnivore. Velox means Swift and Raptor means Robber! Having to catch their food made them quick and sneaky!
We hope you enjoyed learning more things about carnivores dinosaurs as much as we loved teaching you about them. Now that you know how majestic this dinosaur is, you can move on to learn about other dinosaurs like: Iguanodon, Gallimimus, Giganotosaurus and Allosaurus.
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