剑龙的资料（英文）
这是一篇有关恐龙的介绍， 其中stegosaurus是剑龙的介绍， 本来是想把有关剑龙的贴过来， 但我觉得多多益善， 了解多一点毕竟有好处Imagine walking through a prehistoric forest and coming face to face with a terrifying dinosaur. This could never have happened, of course. People and dinosaurs did not live on Earth at the same time. Dinosaurs died out long before people appeared. Dinosaurs lived from about 230 million years ago to about 65 million years ago.HOW DO WE KNOW ABOUT DINOSAURS?Paleontologists (scientists who study prehistoric life) learn about dinosaurs by studying fossils of their bones. These fossils are the remains of dead animals that have turned into rock.People probably found fossils of dinosaur bones thousands of years ago but did not know what the bones were. In the early 1800s, people realized that the fossil bones belonged to prehistoric animals. The first dinosaurs that paleontologists studied were named Megalosaurus and Iguanodon. The bones looked like those of reptiles, such as lizards. The flat teeth of Iguanodon showed that it was a plant eater. The pointy teeth of Megalosaurus showed that it was a meat eater.The early fossils came from England. British scientist Sir Richard Owen in 1842 named these animals dinosaurs. The word comes from two Greek words meaning “terrible” and “lizard.” Scientists now know that dinosaurs were not lizards.KINDS OF DINOSAURSPaleontologists have found fossils of hundreds of different kinds of dinosaurs that lived all over the world. Some dinosaurs were small like birds. Other dinosaurs were much bigger than an elephant.Paleontologists pide dinosaurs into two groups, or orders, by the way their hips looked. One group had hips that were like birds’ hips. They called this order Ornithischia. The other group had hips like those of lizards. They called this order Saurischia.There were three basic kinds of dinosaurs in the Saurischia order: theropods, prosauropods, and sauropods. There were five basic kinds of dinosaurs in the Ornithischia order: stegosaurs, ankylosaurs, ornithopods, pachycephalosaurs, and ceratopsians.THEROPODSAll dinosaurs were plant eaters except for theropods. Theropods were meat eaters that hunted plant-eating dinosaurs and smaller theropods. Most theropods walked on their two hind legs. One of the most famous theropods is Tyrannosaurus rex. This dinosaur was about 39 feet (12 meters) long and weighed 5 metric tons.Some theropods were called raptors. Velociraptor and other raptors had powerful claws, like the claws of an eagle. These dinosaurs probably hunted in packs.PROSAUROPODSProsauropods had spoon-shaped teeth and long, slender necks. These large, plant-eating dinosaurs stood on two legs and grazed on tall bushes and trees. One type of prosauropod, Plateosaurus, was 30 feet (9 meters) long and weighed 1.8 metric tons.SAUROPODSSauropods descended from prosauropods. Some of the best-known sauropods were Apatosaurus and Diplodocus. These dinosaurs had thick legs and feet like elephants’ feet, but with claws. They walked on four legs. At one time sauropods were the biggest dinosaurs on Earth. Some sauropods may have been more than 82 feet (25 meters) long and weighed about 90 metric tons.STEGOSAURSThese ornithischians walked on four legs and had a row of bony plates down their back. Stegosaurus, a large stegosaur, also had spikes on its tail. It used its spiked tail for fighting off meat-eating theropods. Stegosaurus was about 30 feet (9 meters) long.ANKYLOSAURSThese dinosaurs were covered with bony plates that acted as body armor to protect them against theropods. Some had a bony plate in each eyelid and large clubs on their tails. Bony rings and spines protected their necks. Ankylosaurus was about 33 feet (10 meters) long.ORNITHOPODSOrnithopods were once the most numerous plant-eating dinosaurs. There were many different kinds. Over time, ornithopods developed broad beaks. These later ornithopods are called duck-billed dinosaurs. Some ornithopods were small and ran fast. Others were huge. Iquanodon, for example, was 25 feet (7.5 meters) long.PACHYCEPHALOSAURSThese dinosaurs walked on two feet. They had thick, dome-shaped skulls. Scientists think they may have used their thick heads to butt other dinosaurs.CERATOPSIANSThese dinosaurs ware also called horned dinosaurs. One of the best-known ceratopsians was Triceratops. It had three horns on the top of its head: one horn on its snout and one horn above each eye. Triceratops could reach lengths of up to 26 feet (8 meters) and weighed more than 12 metric tons.WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DINOSAURS?There are several theories about why dinosaurs died out. Many scientists believe that there was a sudden, violent event. They think that an asteroid or comet collided with Earth. Fire from the impact burned large areas. Dust blocked sunlight from reaching the surface of Earth. Acid rain fell everywhere. Plants could not grow. There was no food for the plant-eating dinosaurs, so they died out. Dinosaurs that ate plant-eating animals also died out.Other scientists think that the environment changed. Maybe the climate grew colder and dinosaurs slowly became extinct over several million years.Many scientists think that birds descended from a small kind of dinosaur. If this is true, then dinosaurs, in a sense, are still alive in the form of modern birds.
剑龙的介绍
恐龙体长： 长9米， 高2.7米 恐龙体重： 900-1800千克 恐龙食物： 草食 生存年代： 1亿4000万-1亿5600万年前， 侏罗纪晚期 来 历： 剑龙英文名字 的含义是“掩盖着的蜥蜴”或“有屋顶的蜥蜴”。 科学家们不知道剑龙背上的这些板状的骨头有什么用。 一些人认为剑龙利用这些骨头来保温。 简 介： 剑龙长着个像鸟一样的尖喙， 喙里没有牙齿， 但嘴里的两侧有些小牙。 剑龙的背上有17块板状的骨头， 在它尾巴的尖端还有着长刺。 剑龙的前腿比后腿短， 前腿有五个脚趾， 而后腿有三个脚趾。 剑龙走路时用4条腿。 剑龙的脑袋非常小， 所以不太聪明。 剑龙生活在侏罗纪晚期。 它们可能是群居生活。 外观上最大的特征就是背部有一整排的三角形骨板及尾巴上的四枝尖刺， 巨大的剑龙头部非常小， 脑容量甚至比小狗还小， 因此科学家认为它们是一种很笨的恐龙。 剑龙是典型的食草恐龙， 吃蕨（jué）类、苏铁的嫩叶。 全长7米， 如果算上骨板的高度， 身高可达3.5 米。 整个身躯如同现在的大象， 但只有一个小得可怜的脑袋， 大脑只有一个核桃般大小。 到目前为止， 谁也不知道剑龙的骨板是怎样排列的， 也不能确切地知道这些骨板的真实用途。 剑龙是典型的食草恐龙， 吃蕨（jué）类、苏铁的嫩叶。 全长7米， 如果算上骨板的高度， 身高可达3.5 米。 整个身躯如同现在的大象， 但只有一个小得可怜的脑袋， 大脑只有一个核桃般大小。 到目前为止， 谁也不知道剑龙的骨板是怎样排列的， 也不能确切地知道这些骨板的真实用途。
