DINO HEAD-TO-HEAD. The winner is the player with all the cards at the end, having picked up some serious dinosaur knowledge!

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1 DINO HEAD-TO-HEAD Learn more about plant-eating dinosaurs with a fun-filled game of Dino Head-to-Head. Cut out the cards along the dotted lines and follow the simple instructions below: Method Deal the cards equally between two players, making sure they re face down so you can t see them The starting player then turns over their top card and chooses a statistic on the card (e.g. weight) The other player then turns over their top card and reads out the chosen statistic of their dinosaur The player with the highest value wins the round and gets to keep both cards The winner is the player with all the cards at the end, having picked up some serious dinosaur knowledge! If at any point the cards have the same value, both cards are placed in the middle and the chooser picks another category from their next card. Whoever wins the new round gets all of the cards in the middle. ANKYLOSAURUS NICKNAME: The Armoured Dinosaur A dinosaur covered in armour and body spikes, with horns on its head Length: m and a big club-like tail. It was only vulnerable when flipped over. SPECIAL POWER:... 10/10... Tail Club

2 ANKYLOSAURUS NICKNAME: The Armoured Dinosaur A dinosaur covered in armour and body spikes, with horns on its head Length: m and a big club-like tail. It was only vulnerable when flipped over. NICKNAME: Three-Horned Face A rhinoceros-like dinosaur with three horns, bony neck frill and parrot-like beak. Its head, nearly one-third as long as its body, is one of the largest of any land animal ever discovered. Length: m AGE: million SPECIAL POWER:... 10/10 SPECIAL POWER:... 8/10... Tail Club...Face Horns DIPLODOCUS NICKNAME: Double Beam A long-necked, whiptailed giant, one of the longest animals to have ever lived. It had nostrils on top of its relatively tiny head and small spines along its back. TRICERATOPS Weight:...16 tonnes Length:...25m AGE: million Stegosaurus NICKNAME: Roofed Lizard With 17 bony plates, in two rows, embedded in its back and between 4 and 8 massive spikes at the end of its flexible tail, stegosaurus was a well protected dinosaur. Weight:...14 tonnes Length:...10m AGE: million SPECIAL POWER:... 6/10 SPECIAL POWER:... 9/10...Whip Cracking Tail... Spiked Tail

3 Apatosaurus NICKNAME: Deceptive Lizard Formerly known as brontosaurus, this enormous animal is one of the largest to have ever roamed the earth, with fossilised footprints found nearly one metre wide. Weight:...30 tonnes Length:...22m AGE: million NICKNAME: Crested Lizard Its extremely long, backwards-leaning, hollow, bony crest was probably used to produce a foghorn-like sound and enhance its sense of smell. Weight:... 2 tonnes Length:...12m AGE: million SPECIAL POWER:... 6/10...Whip Cracking Tail...Head Crest ouranosaurus NICKNAME: Brave Lizard Ouranosaurus big, colourful sail on its back was probably used to stay cool in the hot African sun and for making it look bigger to predators. parasaurolophus Length:... 7m AGE: million PACHYCEPHALOSAURUS NICKNAME: Thick-Headed Lizard Its huge head had an incredible 10 inch thick skull, protecting a tiny brain and large eyes. The thick skull was used to headbutt other animals sides rather than their heads. Weight: tonnes Length: m AGE: million SPECIAL POWER:... 3/10...Protective Sail... Headbutt

4 Gallimimus NICKNAME: Chicken Mimic This fast dinosaur had feathers, a long neck and a small head which made it look similar to a modern-day ostrich. It had a long tail to help it balance when sprinting away from predators. Weight: tonnes Length:... 8m AGE: million NICKNAME: Small-Horned These tiny dinosaurs had colourful skin and a beak-shaped mouth like a parrot, perfect for snapping off leaves and twigs. Like birds they also spent most of their time in trees. Weight: tonnes Length: m AGE: million SPECIAL POWER:... 7/10 SPECIAL POWER:... 1/10... Super Speed... Sharp Beak Maiasaura NICKNAME: Good Mother Their name translates to good mother, as they were the first dinosaur known to care for their little dinosaurs when they had hatched from their eggs. They moved in herds of up to 10,000 individuals! Microceratus Weight:... 5 tonnes Length:... 9m AGE: million... Muscular Tail Corythosaurus NICKNAME: Helmet Lizard This dinosaur had a large helmet on top of its head, which was thought to be used to make loud, lowpitched sounds, to communicate with other dinosaurs to warn if a predator was near. Length:... 9m AGE: million SPECIAL POWER:... 4/10...Deafening Roar

5 centrosaurus NICKNAME: Pointed Lizard The centrosaurus was a horned dinosaur that moved in large herds to find food and water. It had a single large horn just above its beak-like mouth. Weight:... 2 tonnes Length:... 6m NICKNAME: First Horned Face This creature was much smaller than other horned dinosaurs, it had a large neck frill that was used to impress other proceratops. Weight: tonnes Length: m AGE: million SPECIAL POWER:... 7/10...Face Horn... Protective Neck Frill pachyrhinosaurus NICKNAME: Thick-Nosed Lizard Instead of horns, this dinosaur had a massive, flattened nose that it used to defend itself. protoceratops Length:... 8m hypsilophodon NICKNAME: High-Crested Tooth This plant-eating dinosaur could run very fast on its rear legs and had a stiff tail for balance when running away from predators. Weight: tonnes Length:... 2m AGE: million AGE: million SPECIAL POWER:... 5/10 SPECIAL POWER:... 4/10... Large Flattened Nose... Super Speed