Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are an extinct group of avians that lived from approximately 230 million years ago, to around 66 million years ago, when a mass extinction occured that wiped out almost all of the earth's animals. The word "dinosaur" means fearfully great lizard in ancient Greek.
==Extinction==
The dinosaurs went extinct approximately 65,5 million years ago, due to - what some scientists think it to be - a massive impact of an asteroid smased the earth.
==Gallery==
55a41ab35de424dd8a259578fb882d2bShining-Blue Kingfisher (Alcedo quadribrachys) by Jonathan Rossouw.jpg|Birds are the only surviving dinosaurs.
Tarbosaurus bataar .jpg|A Tarbosaurus, a close cousin to the larger Tyrannosaurus.
Spinosaurus.jpg|A Spinosaurus eating a dead animal.
Okapi dinosaurus.jpg|A sauropod dinosaur. Note that it has stripes like an okapi.
Dinosaurthing2.jpg|A Stegosaurus
Category:Aves
Category:Reptilia
Category:Vertebrates
Category:Animals Described in 1842
Category:Rare Animals
Category:Dinosauria
Category:Extinct Species