T-Rex Country: Millions Of Years Ago Poem by Paula Glynn

Terrifying T-Rex

A dinosaur with a bird brain
A predator causing blood and pain
Its hundred ton body
Making dying dinosaurs
Wince from the bloody pain
Having a heart that could explode
And having bones that could break
If running too fast too soon
Having to protect her young
That hatched from precious dinosaur eggs
Her offspring her job to look after
Steering and scaring away predators
Having no nemesis in the Jurassic forest
Her jaws and teeth capable of crushing
Other dinosaurs her own weight
Her prey necessary to feed her young
Her hunting skills stellar.


Other dinosaurs

Other dinosaurs ruling the planet
160 million long years
The movie Jurassic Park releasing fears
Dinosaurs to be the Pegomastax
A cross between a parrot and porcupine
A dinosaur not featured in Jurassic Park

Other dinosaurs Velociraptor
Meaning speedy thief
A predator giving other dinosaurs grief
By stealing prey and meat
Leaving other dinosaurs hungry
And searching for easy food.

Types of Therapod Dinosaurs
• Albertosaurus
• Allosaurus
• Baryonyx
• Carnotaurus
• Coelophysis
• Compsognathus
• Deinonychus
• Giganotosaurus
• Megalosaurus
• Ornithomimus
• Oviraptor
• Saurophaganax
• Spinosaurus
• Tyrannosaurus
• Tyrannotitan
• Velociraptor
• Yangchuanosaurus

Therapod dinosaurs waving their short arms
Running with long and powerful legs
Angry when another dinosaur steals their eggs
Chasing the thief, angry with grief
The instinct for survival strong
The ancient world where dinosaurs do belong.

Sauropod Dinosaurs
• Apatosaurus
• Brachiosaurus
• Diplodocus
• Giraffatitan
• Jobaria
• Macrurosaurus
• Mamenchisaurus
• Seismosaurus
• Zigongosaurus

Sauropod Dinosaurs slow
On their four legs
Another type of dinosaur
Protective of their eggs
Few prey for the famous T-Rex
Fear these dinosaurs feel little of

Dinosaur Timeline

Dinosaurs a diverse group of reptiles
Of the clade Dinosauria
Coming into vast existence
The advancing Triassic period
Between 243 and 233.23 million years ago
Humans these dinosaurs never to know

Birds being feathered dinosaurs
Evolving from earlier theropods
The Late Jurassic epoch
Exploding new animals and reptiles
And these dinosaurs dangerous
But long running reptiles

In the early 19th century
First dinosaur fossils were recognized
The name 'dinosaur' (meaning 'terrible lizard') used
Coined by Sir Richard Owen in 1841
Refer to these 'great fossil lizards'
Dinosaurs becoming an enduring part of popular culture

The most famous movie and franchise
'Jurassic Park' first released in 1993
Going on to make millions of dollars
The world mad for dinosaurs
The whole world imagining
Riding on these beasts and bringing them to life

Dinosaur science to populate the media
Scientists learning from fossils
Scientists knowing all types of dinosaurs
And their diets and way of survival
Dinosaurs maybe extinct but still living on
In reptile and other species alive today.