Lounge Article: 8 prehistoric animals of the most famous

1. Triceratops
Name: Triceratops
Length: 9 m, height 3 m
Mass: 12 tons
Period: Late Cretaeceous (68 million years ago)
Eating: Nature

Triceratops means three horned face in Greek. It has long horns as much as 1 m 2 of fruit on her eyes, and one shorter at the top of his nose. The most distinguishes this animal from other animals is the skull that can grow as long as 2m, almost a third of his body length. This animal fossils found in the Americas. These animals are not expected in groups and individually. Horn serves as his position against other Triceratops as current deer (courtship). These animals became the object of considerable research favored by scientists because of the many fossils found.

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In addition to these fossils were found hewn, this animal is famous for the eksotisannya, a unique physical form and impressed "friendly" to the community make it a prehistoric animal icons mainstream children.

2. Mammoth
Name: Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)
Length: 5 meters (up to shoulder)
Mass: 12 tons
Age: Pliocene (4.8 jt years ago)
Eating: Plants (usually in the form of a tree)

Mammoth is an ancestor of animals that we know as the elephant, and a 3.3 m long tusks that are used during a fight or frighten the enemy. Mammoth fossils are often found in good condition because the condition is still very low temperature. Elephant habitat is the Balkan regions (Russia, Siberia, and surrounding areas). Mammoth is also called the elephant or the elephant woolled thick hairy coat to protect because of his body (yg able to make to survive in extreme temperatures).

3. Velociraptor
Name: Velociraptor
Length: 2 m, (as stand height 1 m)
Mass: 50 kg
Period: Late Cretaeceous
Eat: The animals are smaller than his size

Velociraptor means high-speed thief (speedy thief). Has 30 teeth long and sharp, flat beak, and neck shape like the letter "s". Moving with both legs (feet) it is strong, and small size, these animals have similar characteristics to the cheetah. However, raptor often hunt in groups of 3-10 tail raptor. Another distinctive feature of the raptor (other than strong legs) is a brain capacity is estimated to have the same ability with chimpanzees (able to communicate with fellow raptor through the voices specific). Flight speeds reaching 40 miles per hour. Velociraptor fossils found in Russia, Mongolia, and China.

4. Pterodactyl
Name: Pterodactyl (pterosaurs)
Length: body when standing 3m, reaching wing span of 10m
Massa: --
Age: Triassic (65.5 million years ago)
Eating: Plants and small animals such as snakes and fish

Pterodactyl comes from the Greek word for lizard with wings (winged lizard). Animals are known with a long beak and a wide range of wings (reaching more than 10 m). Researchers from Ohio University found there was one part of the brain that distinguishes these animals with other vertebrate animals. Flocculi. The proportion in the brain flocculi pterosaurs reached 7.5%, and the average vertebrates have only 1-2% flocculi in his brain. This causes vision Flocculi pterosaurs became much better. However, a large proportion was more likely caused by a wide expanse of wings, because in addition to contact with the eye muscles, flocculi also working closely associated with sensory nerves

8. Coelacanth
Name: coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae)
Length: 2 m
Mass: 80 kg
Age: mid-Devonian (410 jt years ago)
Eating: Squid and small fish

Coelacanth wrote comes from the Greek reply means hollow spine (thorn / spine is curved) is estimated to have become extinct since the Cretaceous era. But the surprising discoveries continue to come as the discovery of this animal in the waters of Tanzania, Madagascar, Kenya, and Indonesia, precisely Bunaken National Marine Park (mantab bro!). Although these animals died after being caught fishing, this animal is believed to still exist and live in deep water (> 700 m). Coelacanth fossil is one of life because almost no significant changes in these animals physically from time to time.
Name: Smilodon (Long-teeth cats)
Length: --
Mass: 55-300 kg
Age: Megantereon (2.5 million, 500,000 years ago)
Eating: plant-eating animals (bison, deer, etc..)

Smilodon or known as the saber-tooth cat comes from the Greek word meaning tooth chisel, found in the Americas. The characteristics of this animal is a canine tooth of a long (17 cm). Smilodon hunted in groups like lions today. However, the group is not dominated by males, because the same body size with females. Long canine teeth are not used to entice couples, so the social life of animals is not well known. Smilodon has a body that is more like a bear because his fur like a bear, and the abdomen is wide and short.

6. Temnodontosaurus
Name: Temnodontosaurus
Length: 9 m
Mass: 15 tons
Period: Early Jurassic (196 million years ago)
Eating: Squid and small fish

Temnodontosaurus an underwater predator that has an amazing swimming stamina, which made him able to swim to the bottom of the sea to find their prey. The fossils were found in the waters of England and Germany. The characteristics of these animals are her large, 20 cm. These animals like dolphins this time, because the long beak and a flat fins.

7. Tyrannosaurus
Name: Tyrannosaurus rex
Length: 12 m, height 6 m
Mass: 7.5 tons
Age: Cretaeceous (68 million years ago)
Eating: plant-eating animals

Tyrannosaurus rex in Greek means Bansa cruel lizard king. Just like the raptor, T-rex limbed two, the neck resembles the letter "s", and has a tail as a counterweight movement. T-rex has a large skull (1.5 m) surrounded by muscle tissue is a strong enabling him to easily chew their prey. This animal is found in the Americas and the continent of Asia (Tarbosaurus). This animal's arm is quite small, only 1 m long and have not found actual function of this arm. Recent research (April 2008) says that T-rex has a kinship with the birds, crocodiles, and ostriches. Although his body is big enough, T-rex has muscles that enable it to run a lot of speed 40-70 km / h. Another ability of these animals are able to smell the smells of the great distances that can compare with the vultures at the moment. Until now still a debate whether the actual T-rex or animals of prey that hunt.