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Dinosaurs, titans of the past. images (Place & time (Lived in Mesozoic…
Dinosaurs, titans of the past. 
Classification
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They lived a long time ago, more than a million years ago, meaning they are not able to be resurrected.
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of many types of large reptilian creatures of which have different features and different appearances
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Description
Size ranging from 60 cm to 40+ meters long. Theropods had 2 big legs to support their big weight, this particular position is named the dinosaur stance, their feet were right below their body.
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Sauropods have long necks and tails, tails are used as defense mechanism to hoard off other smaller theropods that will try to gorge on the sauropod.
Colours of Dinosaurs are not known, and it is also not known that if they can see colour
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Place & time
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3 time eras, Jurassic, Cretaceous and Triassic
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Lived on earth for 240 million years, although it is not accurate of what time they were, that is being studied now.
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Lived in air, water and land.
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Dinosaurs died off from a 10 km meteor and whichever survived died off from the Cenozoic era, as it was very cold.
Dynamics
Different kinds of Carnivorous dinosaurs used different hunting techniques, some scavenge, some actively hunt.
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Sauropods have to eat lots of food to maintain their weight, since they were lots of food, they grow to massive proportions.
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Some dinosaurs like Tarbosaurs and other carnivorous theropod dinosaurs would step on their food to guard it from other carnivorous animals, they would tear off large chunks and swallow them whole. .
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Extra facts
Before the Mesozoic era it was the Permian era and Dimetrodon was not a dinosaur, as most people think.
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The fastest dinosaurs were probably the ostrich mimic ornithomimids, toothless meat-eaters with long limbs like ostriches. They ran at least 25 miles per hour from our estimates based on footprints in mud from a long time ago.
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Cerotopsians were dinosaurs with frilled necks, a popular known example is Tricerotops.
Sauropods were long necked dinosaurs which long tails, they are the largest group of dinosaurs.
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