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Hi welcome to Questacon Science Time.
My name's BJ.
And I'm Dion
Today we're talking about dinosaurs.
Come and join us.
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Welcome to Science Time everyone.
Now, in a big loud voice, can you
tell me - what are we talking about
in Science Time today?
Dinosaurs!
Who can growl like a dinosaur?
Roar!
Fantastic!
I love dinosaurs.
Now, can anyone put up their hand and
tell me their favourite dinosaur?
What's your favourite dinosaur?
You like Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Who else likes Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Yeah, excellent!
What dinosaur do you like?
Tyrannosaurus Rex.
What dinosaur do you like?
Do you want to keep thinking?
You keep thinking.
What dinosaur do you like?
Tyrannosaurus Rex.
It's a very popular one.
Does anyone like another dinosaur
that's not a T-Rex?
Yes.
What dinosaur do you like?
Triceratops.
I like a flying dinosaur.
Oh, a flying dinosaur.
We'll talk about that one soon.
I like a Pteranodon.
Yes.
We'll talk about that one soon.
What one do you like?
Um… A T-Rex.
A T-Rex, they're cool.
What dinosaur do you like?
A Velociraptor,
with it's little claws.
And what dinosaur do you like?
Have we talked about your
favourite dinosaur yet?
Now, I'm going to show you one of my
favourite dinosaurs.
You need to guess what it is.
It has little arms like this and it's
got a big mouth like this.
What is it?
T-Rex.
Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Here we go.
And they were big, weren't they?
With their big teeth.
You know some dinosaurs ate meat and
we call them carnivores.
Can you say carnivores?
Carnivores.
Some animals ate plants and we call
those Herbivores.
Can you say that?
Herbivores.
Now look at the T-Rex
Oh, if it's green it's good.
That's what a herbivore would say.
Green food is healthy and good for
you, isn't it?
Yes, herbivores thought that.
Even red stuff is good for you too.
Like tomatoes.
Yes, certainly.
Back to the T-Rex.
Do you think he was a meat eating
carnivore or a plant eating
herbivore?
Meat eater.
A carnivore.
Can we say that word?
Carnivore.
T-Rex is a carnivore.
Now there's another dinosaur.
Let me see if you can guess.
It has big long neck and a big long tail.
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Good guess.
What do you think?
An Apatosaurus.
Well done.
Good work.
Here is our Apatosaurus.
Can you stretch your next really long
like and Apatosaurus?
And show me your big, long tail.
Oh, you make wonderful Apatosaurus.
Excellent.
Now, do you think an Apatosaurus was
a carnivore that ate meat or a
herbivore that ate plants?
A herbivore.
It's a herbivore that ate plants.
And leaves.
Yes, and leaves and bushes, absolutely.
With it's big, long neck it would
stretch up to the top of the trees.
Now there's another dinosaur I'm
thinking about that has horns.
Triceratops.
Excellent.
Can you show me your horns like a
Triceratops?
Excellent.
Very good.
They use them to head butt.
They would.
They'd use them to head butt each other.
They have one on their nose as well.
Can you show me your nose horn?
Well done.
They've got three all together.
Two on their head and one on their nose.
Now, is a Triceratops a carnivore
that ate meat or a herbivore that ate plants?
What do you think?
Carnivore.
Do you think a carnivore that ate meat?
Does any one else think something?
Herbivore.
You think a herbivore?
Yeah?
Now carnivores like the T-Rex
have big teeth.
Does the triceratops have big teeth?
So, what do you think he might have
been?
Herbivore.
He was a herbivore.
Just like the Apatosaurus, which
doesn't have very big teeth either.
Most dinosaurs that had small teeth
are herbivores.
Oh, I like to eat plants.
So do I.
Let's go and eat some plants together.
Now there's another dinosaur
I'm thinking of.
This one has plates down its back.
I know.
Stegosaurus, yeah.
There's a Stegosaurus bone over there.
Behind us we've got a big plate
of a Stegosaurus.
We'll have a closer look at that later.
Now here's his head.
I'll turn him around this way.
And he's got big plates.
Can you show me your big plates,
down you're back like a big Stegosaurus.
Lovely.
And look at his mouth there.
Do you think he's a carnivore
or a herbivore?
A herbivore.
Good guess, good guess.
A herbivore, you're right.
He liked to eat plants.
I going to come and eat
plants some plants with you.
Now, there's another dinosaur I'm
thinking about.
It has claws on its feet.
Big claws.
Velociraptor, well done!
Now here's our toy of a velociraptor,
and you can see the claws on his feet.
What do you think he might have used
his claw for?
For being a meat eater.
Yeah!
Is he a herbivore or a carnivore?
A carnivore, he was a carnivore who
ate meat wasn't he?
Do we know what he might of
used that claw for?
Scratching!
Good guess, yeah!
Ripping skin!
Yeah.
I think he used it to poke other dinosaurs.
So he could eat them because
he was a carnivore.
He ate other dinosaurs didn't he?
Now have a close look at our
velociraptor, do you see he has
feather on his head,
and feather on his arm?
It is a bit strange isn't it?
He looks like a bird.
You know Scientists think that a lot
of Dinosaurs had feathers, just like birds.
Now there were other animals that
lived at the same time as dinosaurs.
Lets have a look,
what were those animals?
What is this one?
A crocodile!
Now crocodiles lived at the same time
as dinosaurs, but is a crocodile a dinosaur?
No it's not.
It's a reptile, and you can see the
difference in their legs.
The dinosaur has legs that go
straight down and the reptile has
legs that go out to the side.
So can you show me your dinosaur legs?
Straight down.
Big straight dinosaur legs.
Can you show me your bendy reptile legs?
Well done!
There's another animal that lived at
the same time as the dinosaurs!
A pterodactyl.
That's what I was going to say was
the kind of Dinosaur I like.
That's the kind of dinosaur you like!
A pterodactyl.
No the pterodactyl is not a real dinosaur!
Well done!
It's a reptile, just like a lizard.
Well done, it is.
You are right, it is not a dinosaur.
It's a reptile, just like a lizard.
Now dinosaurs and pterodactyls are
not alive anymore,
they're what we call extinct.
Can you say that word with me?
Cats are extinct!
Oh are they?
That means the whole lot of them are
not alive anymore, no they're extinct.
But, do you know there is an animal
that is alive today that scientists
think have evolved from dinosaurs.
Now this animal has feathers,
just like a lot of dinosaurs did.
Now what animal has feathers?
A bird.
Birds may have evolved from dinosaurs.
Yeah.
Now how do we know about dinosaurs?
People, scientists called
palaeontologists have fossils of
these big dinosaur bones and they put
them all together like a jigsaw puzzle.
So then we know that there were these
big animals that aren't alive anymore.
They're like a skeleton.
Yeah just like a skeleton, and then
they take them to the museum so
everyone can see them.
So we've got lots and lots of things
to play with at Science Time today.
You ready to go have a play?
Ready set go!
Go have a play!
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So while everyone else is playing,
we're going to go visit someone else
special at Questacon.
Come with me!
Hi boys and girls!
Here we are today
with Mutty the Muttaburrasaur.
Questacon's own dinosaur.
Can everyone say 'Hi Mutty!'
Hi everybody!
So Mutty tell us where do you come from?
Well muttaburrasaurs came from outback
Queensland near a town called Muttaburra.
Now I'm not completely sure but I
think Muttaburra was named after muttaburrasaurs.
Probably the other way around Mutty.
I find that very upsetting.
I thought you might actually.
Now Muttaburrasaurs, what sort of
things do they eat?
Muttaburrasaurs love to eat lots and
lots of cool crazy things like…
plants and vegetables and trees
Now does that make you a herbivore Mutty?
No I'm a HISbavore because I'm a boy!
No Mutty is actually a herbivore
which means he eats nothing but
plants and vegetables.
And chocolate and chips and lollies!
Only on very short occasions.
What other sort of dinosaurs
were there in Australia?
There were lots of different
dinosaurs, some were really really big.
I'm really quite small.
In comparison to all the rest?
Ahh ok so what's….
RRRRRRRRAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think that's the sound from a very
big Australian dinosaur.
Hi boys and girls, this is a big
dinosaur that used to live in Australia.
It's an Allosaur!
This is Allie the Allosaur!
Everyone say 'Hi Allie the Allosaur'!
Hi Allie!
RARGH!
So what sort of things did Ali eat?
Me!
AAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!
I think he liked to eat other dinosaurs.
He was a carnivore!
RARGHH!
So Allie liked to eat meat, so that
makes him a carnivore, and Mutty only
ate plants which makes him a herbivore.
So you both came from Australia did you?
Yep yep!
They sure did.
There was amazing fun times with
dinosaurs in Australia.
There was dinosaurs everywhere and
some were fast and some were slow
and some were just huge.
So there were lots of different
dinosaurs to see in Australia, and
here at Questacon as well.
So if you want to see a dinosaur,
come along to one of our dinosaur
puppet shows that we have here at Questacon.
You'll be able to meet Mutty, and
maybe even Allie the Allosaur as well.
So everyone say 'Bye Dinosaurs!'
Bye!
And we'll go back and see what
everyone else is doing in Science Time.
RARGH!!!!
Waaaaa!!!
What do you think this might be?
A stegosaurus plate!
Can you show me your
plates like a stegosaurus?
They're really huge, this is how big
a stegosaurus plate would have been.
All of them?
Most of them would have been this big.
Baby ones would have had smaller ones
and there might have even been some
bigger than this.
I wonder!
Now what do we think this might be?
A triceratops horn!
Can you show me your
horns like a triceratops?
How did it come off?
Now that's a very good question,
how did it come off?
This one would have been found with a
whole skeleton a fossilized skeleton
and it came off because the dinosaur
is not alive anymore.
But when it was alive it would have
been on nice and tight.
Now this is the bone of the horn, but
there would have been enamel that
covered the horn.
So it would have been even bigger and
sharper than this.
But this isn't very sharp.
No this isn't very sharp because it's
just the fossilized bone.
Now there's something else I wanna
show you.
What do you think this might be?
A tyrannosaurus rex tooth!
Look how big this tooth is.
Show me your teeth!
Are your teeth this big?
No.
It was really big and sharp, and this
is how big the root was to make the
tooth really strong for crunching up
other dinosaurs.
Because a T-Rex were they carnivores
or herbivores?
They were carnivores, they ate meat.
Can it crunch through our bones?
It could crunch through bones,
because it had big strong teeth.
That's a good question.
Now here's another dinosaur fossil
I want to show you.
This is a replica.
What do you think this might be?
Maybe a horn, maybe a tooth, maybe a tail.
What do you think it might be?
A claw?
This was a foot claw!
From a raptor, a utahraptor this one.
Just like a toenail, a big toenail.
And what do you think it used
this claw to do?
To stick into other animals.
To stick into other dinosaurs!
To open them up yeah!
Because a utahraptor is a carnivore!
It liked eating meat!
Now there's two more things
I wanna show you.
What do you think this might be?
It's a dinosaur egg!
Remember lots of dinosaurs had
feathers, just like birds, and they
all laid eggs, just like birds.
So inside this egg a little dinosaur
would have grown this
is from an ovaraptor,
and bigger dinosaurs had bigger eggs.
A big long neck apatoaurus would have
had a bigger egg.
Maybe as big as a football.
That's pretty big!
Now all of these dinosaur fossils I'm
showing you here, they're replicas.
But here, I've got a real dinosaur fossil.
One hundred and ten million years
old, what's this do you think?
A poo!
Well done, it's a dinosaur poo!
But over 110 million years, it's
fossilized, so it's now turned into a rock.
So it doesn't smell anymore.
But it used to be dinosaur poo!
The scientific name for dinosaur
poo is coprolite.
Can everyone say coprolite?
Coprolite!
That's fantastic.
110 million years old.
That's a long long long time!
So we've been seeing lots of
fantastic dinosaur stuff in Questacon
today, and Dion and I have some fun
things for you to take home with you.
First we have a parent information
sheet, with activities and websites,
songs.
Lots of fun stuff to do at home.
Boys and girls at home you can
download this and look at it at home.
You're going to get one for nana?
Fantastic idea!
There's one other thing I've got for
you to take away today.
Colouring in!
A colouring in sheet!
Here there's two dinosaurs, a
tyrannosaurus rex, eating meat
because he's a carnivore!
Here's along neck dinosaur, a bit
like an apatosaurus and she's eating
some leaves, because she's a herbivore.
Now remember,
one last thing I wanna tell us all.
Do you know, we don't know what
colour dinosaurs used to be?
They could have been pink or purple
or blue or green or red.
We have no idea what colour they were.
So you'll need to use your
imagination, and I want you to
colour this in any colour you like.
What colour might you colour your dinosaur?
Pink, I think that might be lovely.
Now before we give them out can we
look at the boys and girls at home
and can we wave goodbye and say..
See you next Science Time!
Bye!
Come and get a picture.