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The perfect complement to a curriculum encompassing science, natural history, and vocabulary, Dinosaurs of the South explores how scientists use fossil clues to learn about the lives and habitats of some of the... More

The perfect complement to a curriculum encompassing science, natural history, and vocabulary, Dinosaurs of the South explores how scientists use fossil clues to learn about the lives and habitats of some of the most exciting animals that ever lived.

Fossils of extinct animals are scarce in the southeastern United States, but paleontologists have uncovered enough evidence to know that a variety of dinosaurs lived in southern forests and coastal lowlands. Large meat-eaters hunted plant-eating hadrosaurs. Ostrich-like dinosaurs darted after small prey, and armor-covered nodosaurs rambled through underbrush 75 million years ago.

Giant reptiles that were not dinosaurs also lived in the South. The crocodile-like Deinosuchus, which grew to lengths near 40 feet, lurked along riverbanks. These giants probably ate dinosaurs! Pterosaurs, or flying reptiles, soared over the coast. One of the largest, Pteranodon, had a wingspan of 24 feet.

Every fossil uncovered gives scientists new information about life in this region of North America during the time of the dinosaurs. And studying rare southern fossils has enabled paleontologists to identify entirely new dinosaur species known only in the South.