DinoFact
Dinosaur Facts for Kids
Simple, fun dinosaur facts that are easy to read and great for kids and classrooms.
- Dinosaurs hatched from eggs.
- T. rex had tiny little arms.
- Iguanodon had a spiky thumb.
- Many dinosaurs had sharp claws.
- Diplodocus means 'double beam'.
- Iguanodon means 'iguana tooth'.
- Microraptor means 'tiny thief'.
- Dinosaur eggs were laid in nests.
- Some small dinosaurs ate insects.
- Velociraptor means 'swift thief'.
- Brachiosaurus means 'arm lizard'.
- Spinosaurus means 'spine lizard'.
- Compsognathus means 'pretty jaw'.
- Gallimimus means 'chicken mimic'.
- T. rex was about as long as a bus.
- Stegosaurus means 'roofed lizard'.
- Ankylosaurus means 'fused lizard'.
- Deinonychus means 'terrible claw'.
- Fossil poop is called a coprolite.
- Real dinosaur bones are very heavy.
- Velociraptor probably had feathers.
- A few dinosaurs may have eaten eggs.
- Allosaurus means 'different lizard'.
- Corythosaurus means 'helmet lizard'.
- A sparrow is a tiny living dinosaur.
- Some dinosaurs lived near the coast.
- Ceratosaurus had a horn on its nose.
- Some dinosaurs had hundreds of teeth.
- Some dinosaurs had beaks like a bird.
- Maiasaura means 'good mother lizard'.
- Carnotaurus means 'meat-eating bull'.
- T. rex had a powerful sense of smell.
- T. rex could open its jaws very wide.
- Stegosaurus lived long before T. rex.
- Birds and T. rex share a family tree.
- Yinlong was an early horned dinosaur.
- Some dinosaurs had very long fingers.
- Adasaurus was a raptor from Mongolia.
- A baby dinosaur is called a hatchling.
- Triceratops means 'three-horned face'.
- Therizinosaurus means 'scythe lizard'.
- That supercontinent is called Pangaea.
- Some dinosaurs had bumpy, pebbly skin.
- Stegoceras was a dome-headed dinosaur.
- A chicken is a kind of living dinosaur.
- Zalmoxes was a plant-eater from Europe.
- Size was a big dinosaur's best defence.
- Some dinosaurs were taller than a house.
- Some dinosaurs ate both plants and meat.
- Triceratops had three horns on its face.
- Spinosaurus had a tall sail on its back.
- T. rex arms were short but still strong.
- A famous T. rex fossil is nicknamed Sue.
- Dracorex had a spiky, dragon-like skull.
- Psittacosaurus had a beak like a parrot.
- Utahraptor was the largest known raptor.
- No human has ever seen a living dinosaur.
- Some dinosaurs took care of their babies.
- Some dinosaurs had crests on their heads.
- Spinosaurus likely caught fish in rivers.
- Triceratops shared its world with T. rex.
- Coelophysis was a slim, early meat-eater.
- Wind and rain can slowly uncover fossils.
- Bambiraptor was a tiny, bird-like raptor.
- Nature was tough in the age of dinosaurs.
- The ones that did could grow into giants.
- Stegosaurus had pointy spikes on its tail.
- The biggest dinosaurs had very long necks.
- Some dinosaur tails were used like a whip.
- Fossils are often found in layers of rock.
- An ostrich is the largest living dinosaur.
- Some dinosaurs may have slept standing up.
- Richard Owen invented the word 'dinosaur'.
- Orodromeus was a small, quick plant-eater.
- Othnielia was a small, speedy plant-eater.
- Polacanthus was a spiky armoured dinosaur.
- Dinosaur science is changing all the time.
- Neuquenraptor was a raptor from Argentina.
- Prenoceratops was a small horned dinosaur.
- Most dinosaurs, though, lived on dry land.