The very word "dinosaur" (from Greek - "terrible lizard") alludes to the large size of these prehistoric animals. Among the inhabitants of the planet Earth, there were such species, whose sizes are actually amazing and frightening.
Herbivorous dinosaurs
Most of the dinosaurs ate plant foods, which is why they were tall. For example, the length of the body of a diplodocus approached 25 meters, and the size of the neck resembled an average height of a tree, which allowed these animals to feast on the upper leaves of trees.
There was also a seismosaurus that managed to send about 200 kg of various algae into its stomach per day. Moreover, its weight was only 130 tons. This dinosaur species lived in the depths of the sea.
Carnivorous dinosaurs
Fororakosovye - birds, catching up with horror on many animals of that time in South America, are considered one of the largest. Like modern ostriches, they could not fly, but ran as fast as a cheetah. Their head (up to a meter long) and curved beak made it possible to completely swallow an animal the size of a dog or even a horse.
Another huge flying dinosaur was the pterodactyl. The wingspan of a pterosaur (or pterodactyl) alone was up to 15 meters. They surprise with strange body proportions: long legs, beak, neck with small bellies and short wings.
Among terrestrial dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus is not the largest predator. In the first place is spinosaurus with its weight of 10 tons and growth of 17-18 m. Only one growth on its back exceeds the size of a man. Scientists suggest that the crocodile's face can be judged on its diet, which consisted of food from fish and turtles.
