Feathered Friends Glossary

Word Image How do you say it? What does it mean?

Paleontologist pale - e - on - tol - o - jist Paleontologists are scientists who study fossils to find out about things which used to be alive (in prehistoric times).

fossils foss - ils Fossils are rocks that have imprints of things which used to be alive.

Velociraptor vel - osi - rap - tor A Velociraptor was a small dinosaur which had long claws.

Tyrannosaurus rex

Tie-ran-no-saw-rus Rex

Tyrannosaurus rex is a very famous kind of dinosaur. It is sometimes called T-Rex for short. It had a bigger brain than most dinosaurs. T-Rex had very short arms but powerful legs.

evolve e - volve Evolve is when something changes a little bit at a time, over a very long time, until it becomes something completely different.

Archaeopteryx ark - A - op - ter - ix One of the first animals on Earth that had wings made of feathers. It was a dinosaur but it might be where birds came from.

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Feathered Friends Glossary

ancestor an - ses - tor An ancestor is someone who lived many years before someone else in a family. Your grandparents’s grandparents are your ancestors. This works with animal species too.

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