(Claw of Baryonyx walkeri) Baryonyx means 'heavy claw'. Unusually for a carnivorous dinosaur we know it ate fish as scientists have found fish scales and teeth with its fossil where its stomach would have been.

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Iguanodon

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  • Pronunciation: ig–WHA–noh–don
  • Lived: 140–110 million years ago
  • Size: up to 10 metres long
  • Name means: Iguana tooth
  • Fossils found in: Europe, USA and Mongolia
  • Diet: herbivore – ate conifers, cycads and other plants
  • I was a huge 10 metres long and there were lots of us around
  • My hands were very useful in helping me munch through the equivalent of 300 bananas a day
  • I had a flexible fifth finger for grasping plants and a thumb spike I could use for defence
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