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Dinosaur Toys and Games for
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Discovery Roaring T-Rex Dino Excavator
Test your nerves and your excavating skills as you try to unearth these ancient bones. But be careful – if you touch the sides of the pit with your digging tools, the T. rex roars back to life with awesome electronic sound effects. Features:Authentic-looking dig siteRoaring sound effects36 dinosaur trivia cardsThis engaging dexterity game is fun and challenging for two or more young dinosaur lovers. Safety warning: This product contains small parts that may present a choking hazard for young children.

Pterodactyl Remote Control Discovery Dinosaur
Bring this mighty prehistoric creature back to life – and control its every move! Amaze your friends as you use the infrared remote control to make this prehistoric beast walk, turn, blink its eyes, open and close its mouth, move its head and beat its giant wings. It even makes lifelike, screaching sounds! A fascinating and fun way to make prehistory come to life.

In Association with Discover This

Gearbotics Sonic T-Rex Robot Kit

Gears Trex Kit! Start beginning
builders off on the right foot with a Gears! Gears! Gears! Building project that's guaranteed to be ferocious fun! Twenty-eight piece gear building set has exactly the right pieces to bring a wonderful T-Rex to walking, roaring life. Includes motor with T-Rex sounds, gears, connectors and dinosaur pieces. Ages 5 and up.

Triassic Triops

Watch living fossils from the dinosaur age grow before your eyes! Hatch and grow amazing triops again and again. Just add water! Ages 7 and up.

GeoSafari Xcavations Tyrannosaurus Rex Kit

GeoSafari Trex - Buried inside earth-colored, hard plaster are the "fossilized bones" of Tyrannosaurus rex t rex (t-rex), the infamous Cretaceous carnivore. When unearthed, T. rex's skeleton is displayed in the "ground" complete with the bones of its massive head, jaws and teeth. This incredible dig simulates the real thing as the "paleontologist" carefully chips, scrapes, and brushes. Ages 10 and up.

GeoSafari Dino Dig Velociraptor Kit

Excavate and assemble two mini-raptors from "fossilized" rock! Features include a "fossilized" clay block, excavation tools, wax adhesive and modeling stand, plus a 32-page guide book featuring a story about Velociraptors, dinosaur facts and history, pages for your own "Dig Notes," tips for excavation and assembly instructions. Ages 7 and up.

GeoSafari Dino Digs Tyrannosaurus Rex

Expose the massive jawas and teeth in this infamous Cretaceous carnivore's skeleton! Includes: excavation tool, dust brush, wax adhesive, and 32-page guide with instructions and facts the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Ages 7 and up. Ages 10 and up.

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Melissa & Doug Dinosaurs 48-Piece Floor Puzzle

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You'll need lots of space to build this puzzle! Stunning 48-piece puzzle of the planets and moons, made of extra-thick cardboard and built to last!

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Dinosaurs & Things Board Game

from: Aristoplay Limited

Price: $19.69

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Similar to Candyland board game. This game is from the award winning line, Aristoplay. Roll the colored die and move along the colored spaces collecting the matching creature cutouts and placing them on their skeleton on the side of the board. In level 2, you must correctly answer challenging questions as you move through the game. Great for young children, this game brings the prehistoric world to full-color life with cutout laying pieces. Multi-level play keeps the game fun and challenging as children grow. Includes a comprehensive list of museums with dinosaur exhibits and a recommended reading list. Awards: *Parents Magazine

Late for the Sky Dino -Opoly

Product Description
DINO-OPOLY is a game based on those fascinating creatures of times gone by - Dinosaurs. It has all the fun of a traditional property trading game with some prehistoric twists. The game board features everyone?s favorite dinosaurs from giant-sized herbivores to teeny tiny carnivores. Players trade their Fossils in for Dino Bones to raise the rent in Dino-opoly! Each Dino Deed features fun facts about that particular dinosaur. Game play is for ages 6 and up

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Skin Dino Velociraptor

from: Toysmith

Price: $10.25

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
4 years & up. This puzzles is made from 1/4" thick quality wood and features awesome skin detailing. Comes with a dinosaur fact file and an excavation site map. No tools or glue needed. 24"L x 8 1/2"W x 15 1/2"H.

B.C. Bones 3-D puzzle kits are made from 51 to 63 pieces of premium Baltic birch. All parts are interlocking- no hardware or glue required. Each kit comes with reconstruction map, wooden rock hammer, and sandpaper. More from BC Bones

I DIG Dinosaurs T-Rex Skeleton Excavation Adventure

Product Description
Dig into a prehistoric excavation adventure! Slide on your cool protective goggles and use the official steel hammer & chisel to unearth a the remains of a Velociraptor! Just like a real paleontologist, you'll assemble the bones of this amazing dinosaur to form a skeleton replica. The experience heightens as you bring your model to a classic museum finish with paints! Includes fun, fact-filled Field Guides to give kids all the dirt on dinosaurs and real life excavations. An adventure worth investigating. Protective Eyewear Included Ages 6+ More from BC Bones

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FYI: Did you know that pterodactyls are not dinosaurs? There were no flying dinosaurs! So what exactly is a dinosaur?

Richard Owen, a British scientist, coined the term "dinosaur" in 1842. It comes from a combination of the Greek words "deinos," meaning "fearfully great," and "sauros," meaning "lizard." Put them together and you get "fearfully great lizard."

Dino- saurs aren't really lizards, though. Lizards, like all reptiles, walk with their legs sprawled out to the side, giving them that characteristic kind of slithering waddle. Dinosaurs, on the other hand, walked with their legs directly under their bodies -- the first animals to do so! The position of their legs under their bodies also gave them a more upright posture than lizards and all reptiles have.

Dino-
saur legs were different from reptile legs in other ways too: rather than pointing sideways, their front legs had backward-pointing knees and their back legs had forward- pointing knees. In addition, their front legs tended to be shorter and lighter than their rear legs.

Other characteristics of dinosaurs include egg-laying and land-dwelling. That means that no dinosaurs swam in oceans, lakes or rivers, or flew in the sky!

Dino-
saurs roamed the earth for about 160 million years and then disappeared. Still today no one knows for sure exactly why they disappeared, but there are several theories.

The period of time during which dinosaurs lived is known as the Mesozoic era. This period, which lasted from 265 to 65 million years ago,
consisted of three smaller time periods -- Triassic, Jurassic, and the Cretaceous. The Tyrannosaurus Rex
lived during the Jurassic period.

If your child would like to read about dinosaurs, here are some books about them!

For more dinosaur books, visit the dinosaur book page at Gifts for Learning