Dinosaurs The Real Monsters Author:Dougal Dixon The dinosaurs were among the most successful and most magnificent animals that have ever lived. We cannot think of them as failures just because they do not happen to be around anymore. they lived from about 225 million years ago up to about 65 million years ago. A history of 160 million years of survival is hardly one of failu... more »re! Especially when we species have been around for 250,000 years at the most.
The term dinosaur comes from scientific words meaning "terrible lizard." some dinosaurs were indeed fierce animals and did look like present-day lizards. but others resembled different kinds of reptiles, such as crocodiles, or mammals and birds.
In The Real Monsters we feature thirteen of the largest dinosaurs that existed. Each life as we imagine it. We compare the shape, size, diet, and other details of these dinosaurs, and look at how some of them were similar to present-day animals. The dinosaurs are arranged in order in which they evolved.« less