How do we pick a Dinosaur to write about?
Sometimes, we pick out a letter from the alphabet and look to see if any dinosaurs names begin with that letter.
Sometimes we are drawn to a particular carnivore or herbivore because someone may have mentioned him (or her).
Sometimes we just like the color of the dinosaur, especially when they ride the Dinosaur Train.
This week we drew the letter "I" and did our research to see what we could come up with....
We found Mr. Iguanodon, Iggy for short!
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This guy has been known to man for a long time because he was discovered in 1825.
Iggy preferred a diet of plants, lived about 135-125 million years ago, and grew to be about 27 feet tall (9 feet tall at his hips) and weighed 4-5 tons! He was a big 'un!
Teeth and a few bones of Iggy were
found in 1822, (perhaps by Gideon Mantell's wife, Mrs Mary Mantell) in
Sussex, (southern) England. Hundreds of Iguanodon fossils have been
found since then.
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