恐龙灭绝之谜（The mystery of dinosaur extinction）.docVIP

恐龙灭绝之谜（The mystery of dinosaur extinction） Dinosaur synopsis Dinosaurs are a class of animals that lived about 235 million to 65 million years ago and supported their hind limbs upright, dominating the earths terrestrial ecosystems for more than 160 million years. Most dinosaurs were extinct, but the descendants of dinosaurs - birds survived and flourished. Dinosaurs first appeared about 240 million years ago in the Triassic period, and died in the Cretaceous Nakamo Shirosueshiraki extinction event about 65 million years ago. Dinosaurs eventually disappeared from the Cretaceous Paleocene Epoch, 63 million years ago. Definitions and attributes dinosaur [1] Dinosaurs (English: dinosaur) is living in about 235 million years ago to 65 million years ago in a land animal, is a group of diverse strengths Mesozoic vertebrates, most belong to terrestrial (habitat on land) reptiles, but can not walk upright, dominate the global terrestrial ecosystems for over 160 million years. In fact, dinosaurs have a long history of dinosaur fossils. Long before the discovery Iguanodon, Europeans knew the huge bones buried a lot of odd shape. Until the discovery of the Iguanodon and were compared with the iguanas, the scientific community was initially identified this is a group of similar to the extinct lizard reptile. In 1842, British paleontologist Richard - Sir Erwin (1804-1892) in Latin to create a name, the Latin root by two, in front of what is terrible, behind what is a lizard. From then on, the lizard of terror became a general term for reptiles. We Chinese have both imagination and generalization, and translate this Latin name into dinosaur. Dinosaurs are not lizards at all. Advanced organisms that were the first to walk upright on earth. Dinosaur extinction mystery dinosaur fossils More than two hundred million years ago in the Mesozoic, many reptiles lived on land, so the Mesozoic was also known as the age of reptiles. They continue to differentiate into different types of rept