Some Prehistoric Animals - to see what each of them are, where they
lived and what they ate... match the numbers with the text below.
1)
Dinornis (din-OR-nis)
was 4 M high. It ate plants and lived in New Zealand. He looked very
like an ostrich.
2) Archaeopteryx (archae-op-teryx)
The first bird. Thought to be a direct descendant of the Jurassic period
- a dinosaur - only with feathers. An ancestor of Dinoris - and maybe
the little birds in your back yard too?
3) Zalambdalestes a
small mouse-like mammal with a long name who survived the extinction at
the end of the Cretaceous era.
4) Eomanio an scaly
early ant-eater from Germany. He is related to the modern pangolin found
in Africa and Asia who are known to roll themselves up into a ball.
5) Scelidotherium a
much later form of ant-eater.
6) Glyptodon this
solid looking animal stood 3.5 M high, had a hard thick shell covering
it's body. It lived in South America and is related to the Armadillo.
7) Megatherium A
giant sloth, who like his descendants, was slow moving and reluctant to
make an effort. He had long limbs with hooked claws for hanging upside
down from the branches of trees.
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