Dinosaurs
Existent features prehistoric powerful principal vegetarian era hind period range
Dinosaurs
were a group of huge vertebrates, of lizard type, whose
(1) ___
characteristic was that they had very small brain. Iguanadon was a
(2)
___ dinosaur
about 9 meters long, lizard-like, with a large mouth and sharp teeth
for eating plants. He has a sort of descendant in the (3)
___ iguana.
Archaeopteryx, which appeared during the Jurassic (4)
___,
was the first animal that could fly. It had a lizard-like tail and
sharp teeth, as well as a huge wing span. Another flying
animal
– pterodactyl seems strange to be described as a bird because this
(5)
___
creature was so enormous. They looked a bit like huge bats with a
bird-like head and (6)
___
quarters like those of a lizard. The wing
span
could be anything up to 7 meters. Ichteosaurs were a group of
reptiles who lived in the sea in the Mesozoic (7)
___,
and they could (8)
___
from 1 to 10 meters in length, with flippers and a long, (9)
___
tail. Psittacosaurs were a large lizards with parrot-like (10)
___,
who lived on land.
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Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus was a type of dinosaur which appeared about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic period. It could grow up to 9 m in long (1) and about 3 m in high (2), and it weight (3) 3000 kg. It was not a very intellect (4) animal; its small brain was the size of a walnut! Its scull was long and narrow, and it had a tooth (5) beak and small teeth farther back. Long, triangle (6) plates sticking out of the Stegosaurus’ back and tail may have been for protect (7) from predators.
Towards the end of the Jurassic period, most of the enormous dinosaurs death (8) out. One theory suggests that dinosaurs began to decrease in number because of the major changes in the globe (9) weather and the environment. Stegosaurs, being able (10) to cope with the changes, slowly began to die out.
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Mammoth
T
he
mammoth and the sable-tooth tiger were the two principle/principal
(1) animals
which the early man knew, but which have been extinct/instinct
(2)
for thousands of years. The shell/carcass
(3) of
the mammoth was discovered in a riverbed in Siberia. The fully
intact/contact
(4) body
of a baby mammoth having not only bones but also flesh, skin and
wool/wooly (5)
hide, which was perfectly preserved/reserved
(6) in
permafrost, was found in Jakutia. The mammoth, nicknamed “Dima”,
is now one of the most famous exhibits/exhibitions
(7)
of the Zoological Museum in St. Petersburg.
Mammoths used to be found throughout the Northern semicircle/hemisphere (8) and especially in the northern Eurasia. The word is borrowed from the obsolete/absolute (9) Russian, in fact, it had originally come from Tartar Mamont, which means ‘earth’, because mammoths were believed to have burrowed/buried (10).
In the English language the word ‘mammoth’ is also used to ascribe/describe (11) something huge, as this elephant-like mammal was considerably larger, had curved tusks/tasks (12) and looked more ferocious/ferrous (13) than his modern relative – the elephant. Another animal described/depicted (14) on the walls of the cave dwellings/swellings (15) of the prehistoric man is the sable-tooth tiger who had huge canine teeth and lived in the Americas.
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