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Dinosaurs getting around
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/dinosaurs-getting-around/Imagining dinosaurs in motion is to bring them truly to life. Mere fossils now become lumbering, bulky, fleet-footed, agile, four-legged, two-legged or even bird-like. How is this transformation possible? What techniques do we use to put muscles on bones and movement into skeletons?
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Herbivorous heavyweights
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/the-dinosaur-giants-club/One group of plant-eaters grew to become the biggest land animals ever. These were the sauropods - impressive long-necked, four-legged giants.
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Lightning Beast - Ornithopod dinosaur
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/fulgurotherium-australe/Fulgurotherium australe was a small ornithopod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Australia. Fulgurotherium, known from Lightning Ridge in New South Wales and perhaps from Victoria, was one of the first Australian dinosaurs to be scientifically described.
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Dinosaur - Mamenchisaurus youngi
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/mamenchisaurus-youngi/Mamenchisaurus youngi was a gigantic herbivore that lived around 150 million years ago and had one of the longest necks of all known dinosaurs.
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Modern birds
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/modern-birds/It is clear to us today what is a bird and what is not - as feathers make it difficult to confuse them with any other living animal. Many other features – such as wishbones and specialised joints in the wings – are also unique. We place birds in a major group called Aves.
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Dinosaurs unit
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/learning/dinosaurs-ps/Follow this Dinosaurs unit to deepen your knowledge and understanding of dinosaurs and fossils.
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Dinosaurs unit for preschools
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/learning/dinosaurs-ey/Follow this Dinosaurs learning unit to deepen your knowledge and understanding of dinosaurs and fossils.
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Dinosaurs: Feathers, teeth and claws
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/at-the-museum/dinosaurs-feathers-teeth-claws/Students get hands-on with fossil evidence and apply critical thinking skills to compare features of living animals to dinosaurs.
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Dinosaurs living together
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/dinosaurs-living-together/Did dinosaurs live on their own or in groups? There is good evidence that many did form social groups. Plant-eaters would have found safety in numbers, while predators may have hunted in packs and benefited from co-operation.
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Dinosaur lifecycles: from go to woe
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/dinosaur-lifecycles/From birth to growth and death, the fossil record preserves fascinating hints about the lifecycle of a dinosaur.
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Tails from the Coasts
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Burra
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Minerals
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