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Dinosaur Vocabulary
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dinosaur | one of various extinct reptiles that lived approximately 100 million years ago and included the largest land creatures. |
extinct | no longer existing, as an animal species. |
fossil | the remains or trace of a living organism from an earlier geologic age, embedded in earth or rock. |
herbivore | an animal that feeds on plants. |
paleontology | the scientific study of life in the past geologic periods through examination of animal and plant fossils. |
predator | an animal that eats the flesh of others. |
prehistoric | of, pertaining to, or existing in a time prior to written history. |
skeleton | the inner framework of bones and cartilage in vertebrate animals, which supports and protects the softer body parts, or the hard external shell of invertebrates and some vertebrates. |
prey | the object of a hunt or pursuit, usually one animal caught and eaten by another. |
carnivore | a flesh-eating animal, especially a meat-eating mammal. Including a plant that eats insects. |
omnivore | an animal that eats plants and meat. |