恐龙英文简介

百万年前,恐龙统治着地球.而后,恐龙灭绝了.究竟发生了什么?我们知道它们不是突然灭绝的,而可能是在几百万年间全部灭绝的.恐龙生存的年代,整个地球的气候温暖潮湿,有许多丛林.然而,地球的气候不断逐渐改变.当一些地域的气候变得寒冷干燥时,这部分的丛林便死去了.恐龙无从觅食物.这可能是恐龙灭绝的原因之一.Millions of years ago, the dinosaurs(恐龙) ruled the earth. Since then, there have been no dinosaurs. What happened to then? We know they did not all die at once. It may have taken a few million years for all of them to die. In the days of the dinosaurs, the whole earth was warm and wet. There were many green jungles(丛林). But the earth changes slowly, all the time. When parts of the earth became cold and dry, the jungles there died. Then dinosaurs could not find enough to eat. This must be on reason why the dinosaurs died out.

那不是偶能懂的,

恐龙是生活在距今大约2亿3500万年至6500万年前的、能以后肢支撑身体直立行走的的一类动物，支配全球陆地生态系统超过1亿6千万年之久。大部分恐龙已经灭绝，但是恐龙的后代——鸟类存活下来，并繁衍至今。恐龙”一词在字典中意思：一类生活在几亿年以前的古动物，现已灭绝.Dinosaurs lived about 200 million in 3500 million years ago to 6500 million years ago, can support the body upright limb of a class of animals, the control of global terrestrial ecosystems over 100 million 6 million years. Most dinosaurs have become extinct, but the descendants of dinosaurs - birds, survive and reproduce so far. Dinosaur "in the dictionary has two meanings: one living in hundreds of millions of years ago the ancient animal, now extinct.

TheDinosauriaDinosaurs,oneofthemostsuccessfulgroupsofanimals(intermsoflongevity)thathaveeverlived,evolvedintomanydiversesizesandshapes,withmanyequallydiversemodesofliving.Theterm"Dinosauria"wasinventedbySirRichardOwenin1842todescribethese"fearfullygreatreptiles,"specificallyMegalosaurus,Iguanodon,andHylaeosaurus,theonlythreedinosaursknownatthetime.ThecreaturesthatwenormallythinkofasdinosaurslivedduringtheMesozoicEra,fromlateintheTriassicperiod(about225millionyearsago)untiltheendoftheCretaceous(about65millionyearsago).Butwenowknowthattheyactuallyliveontodayasthebirds.RunningDeinonychus.©1995B.CunninghamSomethingstokeepinmindaboutdinosaurs:•Noteverythingbiganddeadisadinosaur.Alltoooften,bookswritten(ormoviesmade)forapopularaudienceincludeanimalssuchasmammoths,mastodons,pterosaurs,plesiosaurs,ichthyosaurs,andthesail-backedDimetrodon.Dinosaursareaspecificsubgroupofthearchosaurs,agroupthatalsoincludescrocodiles,pterosaurs,andbirds.althoughpterosaursarecloserelations,theyarenottruedinosaurs.Evenmoredistantlyrelatedtodinosaursarethemarinereptiles,whichincludetheplesiosaursandichthyosaurs.MammothsandmastodonsaremammalsanddidnotappearuntilmanymillionsofyearsafterthecloseoftheCretaceousperiod.Dimetrodonisneitherareptilenoramammal,butabasalsynapsid,i.e.,anearlyrelativeoftheancestorsofmammals.•Notalldinosaurslivedatthesametime.Differentdinosaurslivedatdifferenttimes.DespitetheportrayalsinmovieslikeKingKongandJurassicPark,noStegosauruseversawaTyrannosaurus,becauseTyrannosaurusdidn'tappearonthesceneuntil80orsomillionyearsfollowingtheextinctionofstegosaurs.ThesamegoesforApatosaurus("Brontosaurus")—it'sboneswerealreadywell-fossilizedbythetimeT.rexcamealong.•Dinosaursarenotextinct.Technically.Basedonfeaturesoftheskeleton,mostpeoplestudyingdinosaursconsiderbirdstobedinosaurs.Thisshockingrealizationmakeseventhesmallesthummingbirdalegitimatedinosaur.Soratherthanreferto"dinosaurs"andbirdsasdiscrete,separategroups,itisbesttorefertothetraditional,extinctanimalsas"non-aviandinosaurs"andbirdsas,well,birds,or"aviandinosaurs."Itisincorrecttosaythatdinosaursareextinct,becausetheyhaveleftlivingdescendantsintheformofcockatoos,cassowaries,andtheirpals—justlikemodernvertebratesarestillvertebrateseventhoughtheirCambrianancestorsarelongextinct.