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Lightning Beast - Ornithopod dinosaur
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/fulgurotherium-australe/Fulgurotherium australe was a small ornithopod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Australia. Fulgurotherium, known from Lightning Ridge in New South Wales and perhaps from Victoria, was one of the first Australian dinosaurs to be scientifically described.
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The first birds
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/the-first-birds/The first birds had sharp teeth, long bony tails and claws on their hands. The clear distinction we see between living birds and other animals did not exist with early birds. In fact, they were more like small dinosaurs than they were like any bird today.
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Dinosaurs getting around
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/dinosaurs-getting-around/Imagining dinosaurs in motion is to bring them truly to life. Mere fossils now become lumbering, bulky, fleet-footed, agile, four-legged, two-legged or even bird-like. How is this transformation possible? What techniques do we use to put muscles on bones and movement into skeletons?
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Herbivorous heavyweights
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/the-dinosaur-giants-club/One group of plant-eaters grew to become the biggest land animals ever. These were the sauropods - impressive long-necked, four-legged giants.
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Dinosaurs: Feathers, teeth and claws
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/at-the-museum/dinosaurs-feathers-teeth-claws/Students get hands-on with fossil evidence and apply critical thinking skills to compare features of living animals to dinosaurs.
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Dinosaurs unit
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/learning/dinosaurs-ps/Follow this Dinosaurs unit to deepen your knowledge and understanding of dinosaurs and fossils.
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Dinosaurs unit for preschools
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/learning/dinosaurs-ey/Follow this Dinosaurs learning unit to deepen your knowledge and understanding of dinosaurs and fossils.
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Dinosaur - Qantassaurus intrepidus
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/qantassaurus-intrepidus/Qantassaurus intrepidus, named after the Australian airline Qantas, was a small ornithopod from the Early Cretaceous of Victoria.
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Dinosaur - Velociraptor mongoliensis
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/velociraptor-mongoliensis/Velociraptor mongoliensis was a small meat-eating dinosaur that lived in China and Mongolia 80 million years ago.
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Dinosaur - Xiongguanlong baimoensis
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/xiongguanlong-baimoensis/Xiongguanlong means ‘dragon from Xiong Guan’ in Mandarin, and baimoensis is from the Mandarin for ‘white ghost’, referring to the ‘White Ghost Castle’ formation near the fossil site. This meat-eater was an early tyrannosaur that grew to about 5 metres long.
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