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Ouranosaurus, means brave lizard, a dinosaur that lived in Cretaceous period was an herbivore. Ouranosaurus was about 24 feet long and weighed about 4 tons. Ouranosaurus spines stuck out of his back and tail; even though his spines were covered with skin. Ouranosaurus skull was longer than the other iguanodontid, a family of dinosaurs. His neck was short and flexible. On each hand there were 5 short fingers. The second and third fingers had hoof-like nails. They probably used the nails when it went on all four to graze on low-lying plants
Oviraptor -was a bird-like, omnivores dinosaur. It was 6 to 8 ft long (1.8 to 2.5 m), and weighed from pretty light 55 to 76 pounds (25 to 35 kg). It walked on two legs and was built light, very quick, and long-legged. Oviraptor's neck was curved, flexible neck, a long tail, short arms, and curved claws on its three fingered hands and here toed feet. There claws were three inches long. Their fingers were long and good for grabbing. The Oviraptor had a parrot like head a short, beak and was extremely powerful jaws for crushing actions. Also they had short stumpy horn-like crest on top of its snout. Used for most likely a mating display, some were different, could mean Oviraptor species or male and female, juveniles or adults
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