What are dinosaurs?
The study of dinosaurs, the history of their origin, development –
is engaged in paleontology. As a science, it stood out not so long ago. Her
founder, French scientist Georges Cuvier, proved that supposedly
fairy dragons and giant lizards are not an empty invention, and not a fruit
fantasies, and real-life animals that lived on Earth for a long time
before the appearance of man.
The word is taken from the Greek language. Dinosaurs – from the Greek. “Deinos” –
terrible, “saurus” – a lizard.
This term does not reflect all the diversity of these animals. How
it is known that among dinosaurs one can find not only “huge sizes
lizard “, but also representatives of much smaller volumes (the size of
common bull or average fox), and not all dinosaurs by definition
were lizards (representatives with well-developed wings
enough)