Have you ever thought that dolphins used to have legs! Let’s discover five super swimming dinosaurs facts for kids.
Just like with flying, most of the ‘swimming dinosaurs’ we think about were in fact swimming reptiles that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs! But there was one dinosaur that took to the water – the Spinosaurus!
Spinosaurus was the largest dinosaur that ate meat and it lived between land and water – scientists have found that it had webbed feet and so it could swim and probably hunted in the water too!
The rest of the huge swimming reptiles are also really interesting! There was even one with a bite that was four times stronger than the bite of a T-rex! This was the Pliosaurus and its teeth were over thirty centimetres long! That’s like a long school ruler!
Crocodiles have hardly changed in millions of years! Most animals have evolved over the years and you can see this in the fossil record, but scientists believe this swimming reptile found its near-perfect form around the same time the dinosaurs were roaming the Earth!
Dolphins used to have legs! Dolphins haven’t changed much either in the last few million years, but when they did evolve they went from legs to fins! The dolphins we see today evolved from animals that later became Hippos! That’s a weird family tree!
We hope you enjoyed learning more things about swimming 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: Carnivorous Dinosaurs, Herbivorous Dinosaurs and Flying Dinosaurs.
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