Known Dinosaurs on Land, Water & Sky

Do you know what kinds of dinosaur thrive on land, river and sky. Here we tell life habits from five known dinosaurs. They have incredible appetite, huge bodies, agile air speed and powerful defenses.

Triceratops

There was weird dinosaur called Triceratops, which was a large, clumsy, strapping, stupid, hippopotamus-like creature. Its body weighs more than 40 tons, but its brain weighs less than a pound.

Triceratops were herbivores, feeding on rough plants. Its lower jaw had a large & stiff beak for cutting through branches and grass. And its back teeth had been adapted to chew on these plants. Triceratops had legs as thick as large pillars. Its front legs curved so they could reach the ground more easily while foraging.

Triceratops had three big horns on its face, one above each eye and one above its nose; A bone like a fireman’s helmet protrudes from the back of its head. Under such protection, Triceratops must be invulnerable.

Animatronic Triceratops — Triceratops Exhibits

Brontosaurus

Another large dinosaur was the Brontosaurus, or called lightning lizard. Its mighty feet pressure made the earth seem to shake. Brontosaurus body length is about 40 to 60 feet and height is about 10 to 14 feet. Brontosaurus was about 10 times the size of an elephant and weighed more than 25 tons.

Brontosaurus has a very small head in its large body, but a long neck and tail. It moves very slowly, which makes it look stupid. They live in shallow lakes and ponds, and home land and shallow water simultaneously.

Brontosaurus feeds on lush aquatic grasses. A Brontosaurus can eat thousands of pounds of plants in a day, or more if it’s really hungry. The long neck allows brontosaurus to easily stretch through the leaves to feed; Its powerful tail can support its entire body and scan its surroundings for possible predators.

Animatronic Brontosaurus — Brontosaurus Exhibits

Ankylosaurus

Ankylosaurus is a very strange dinosaur. The dinosaur with hard bony plates and spines all over its body. Someone have horns at the head. Someone have a row of large plates sticking up along the back. With two or more pairs long & sharp spines near the end of a whip-like tail.

All of these reptiles (Ankylosaurus) lay their eggs on warm sandy soil and then leave them there to hatch by the heat of the sun. Without any protection, there is no doubt that many dinosaur eggs would have been destroyed by other animals.

Big Ankylosaurus Model — Ankylosaurus Exhibits

Ichthyosaur

Some animals lived in the water / river. The most common being is ichthyosaur. Ichthyosaur was a huge and terrible animal, sometimes as big as a whale. Ichthyosaurs had big mouths like crocodile and could devour fish and other animals.

Pterodactyl

In addition to the early warm land and sea, one of these strange animals was able to leap and glide through the air. That was the pterodactyl. They were the first flying animals in the world. Perhaps the pterodactyl jumped on the ground to avoid predators at the earliest, and then evolved into jumping between branches.

The largest pterodactyl could have the middle toes of their front feet with three to four feet long. Hard membranous skin stretched out between the toes. That caused pointed wings similar to bat. Their wings can be up to 25 feet long, and they have claws at the end of the wings. They are light and covered with layers of scales.

With its large wings and light body, pterodactyl could fly long distances; With claws at the ends of their wings, they can cling to naked vertical surfaces, such as the edge of a cliff. These flying dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds, and they ruled the sky for a long time.

Their extinct one of facts:

The climate gradually changed. The weather began to become very cold, and snow and ice covered most of the earth. Wetlands and marshes dried up, and flourishing vegetation during warm period also was disappeared. Due to the shortage of food, dinosaurs that needed to eat a large number of plants to survive, gradually died out.

These prehistoric animals with small brains and large body are only suited to a leisurely life in warm climates. Their sluggish reactions are not adapted to the new environment of the Earth. So they are doomed to die. In this way, the era of large reptiles dominating the land, sea and sky was over.

We brought above five known dinosaurs back in the way of animatronic dinosaur exhibits.

Our popular five dinosaurs in above references show here:

7 Meters Long Animatronic Triceratops – The Triceratops exhibit have being placed at DINO EXPEDITION (Theme Park at Dutch Wonderland).