There are hundreds - dinosaurs are more fascinating the more you learn about them. Here are a few things:

The first ones lived about 250 million years ago and the last ones about 60 million, so they lasted much, much longer than we have yet.

Modern birds are probably closely related to dinosaurs.

The name means "terrible lizard."

You can find more information at www.enchantedlearning.com or if that looks too simple, try the BBC dinosaurs website.

 All dinosaur fossils that have been found are in sedimentary rock. This type of rock forms as an action of water.

Most fossils that have been found reveal that the dinosaurs died in an instant; they suffered a sudden death.

These two facts are linked. Many dinosaurs died instantly, covered over by sediment that was moved by water.

How? Aren't we taught that a huge comet or asteroid collided with the earth and caused the dinosaurs to die out over many years?

Well, consider this: Where fossilized dinosaurs, most are found intact. By intact I mean, the bones of the dead are in place where they belong.

If an animal dies, what usually happens? It's laying out in the sun, rotting. Scavengers come along and pick at it, tearing away away flesh and bone, scattering the remains.

If such an animal were slowly covered over by sediment, and not in an instant, it would be torn up and scattered, similar to the example above. Thus, we would not find so many fossils of intact skeletons as we do.

Why? What could cause so many animals to be covered over so quickly, likely causing their death? How could all fossils found be only in sedimentary rock at various altitudes? A simple answer:

A world-wide, catastrophic flood.