Click2Flicks - Jurassic Park III - Chapter 4

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>JURASSIC PARK III</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 4 - JURASSIC-ERA DINOSAURS</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Scientists believe the longest dinosaur that roamed the earth during the <a href="http://photo2.si.edu/dino/jurasc.gif" target="_blank"><b>Jurassic Era</b></a> was the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/fact_files/real_movies/diplodocus.ram" target="_blank"><b><i>Diplodocus</b></i></a>. (Follow the link to the BBC’s terrific audio-visual recreation of this <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/fact_files/glossary_r_s.shtml#sauropod" target="_blank"><b>sauropod</b></a>.) These enormous plant-eating <a href="http://photo2.si.edu/dino/diplod.gif" target="_blank"><b>creatures</b></a> weighed up to 30 tons.</p> <p>A "<a href="http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/saurischia/saurischia.html" target="_blank"><b>lizard-hipped</b></a>" dinosaur whose digestive system processed plant material with the help of <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/fact_files/glossary_f_h.shtml#gastrolith" target="_blank"><b>stones</b></a> that the animal swallowed, its fossilized remains have been found at the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/dig_deeper/finds_2.shtml#morrison" target="_blank"><b>Morrison Formation</b></a> (in the western United States) and on all other continents except Antarctica.</p> <p>Despite its length, <a href="http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/saurischia/diplodocus.gif" target="_blank"><b><i>Diplodocus</b></i></a> was dwarfed by its fellow-inhabitant of the Jurassic Age - the long-necked <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/fact_files/real_movies/brachiosaurus.ram" target="_blank"><b><i>Brachiosaurus</b></i></a>.  A skeleton in Berlin’s Natural History Museum is 13 meters (about 40 feet) high. Its upper arm bone is more than 6 feet long.</p> <p>Remains of <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/fact_files/real_movies/stegorsaurus.ram" target="_blank"><b><i>Stegosaurus</b></i></a>, another plant-eating Jurassic dinosaur with <a href="http://photo2.si.edu/dino/stegos.gif" target="_blank"><b>spiny spindles</b></a> first <a href="http://www.lhl.lib.mo.us/pubserv/hos/dino/images/mar15h.jpg" target="_blank"><b>drawn</b></a> by Othniel Marsh 100 years ago, have been found throughout the world. Smaller than <i>Diplodocus</i>, it weighed 7 tons. But the most likely ancestor of <i>T-Rex</i>, the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/fact_files/real_movies/eustreptospondulus.ram" target="_blank"><b><i>Eustreptospondylus</b></i></a>, has only been found in England. (Follow the link to another fantastic BBC animation.) Due to limited fossil remains, scientists are unsure about the average size and weight of this carnivore.</p> <p>One of the real giants of the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/chronology/152/" target="_blank"><b>Jurassic Age</b></a> - or of all times - was the <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/stories/dinos/tunein_vid3.html" target="_blank"><b><i>Liopleurodon</b></i></a>.  With teeth twice the size of the later <i><a href="http://dinosauricon.com/images/tyrannosaurus-sm.html" target="_blank"><b>T-Rex</b></a></i>, this ocean creature used its <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/fact_files/real_movies/liopluradon.ram" target="_blank"><b>monstrous mouth</b></a> to end the lives of its prey. Paleontologists today are able to study its eating habits from the fossilized <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/fact_files/sea/liopleurodon.shtml" target="_blank"><b>remains</b></a> of its victims.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><a href="jurassic_park_ch3.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="jurassic_park_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER  </a>   <a href="jurassic_park_ch5.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>