Quick facts about dinosaurs for kids and grown-ups! Find out what dinosaurs ate, how they may have behaved, what they may have looked like, and more. Dinosaurs have long captured our imagination as reptilian creatures with menacing teeth, claws, spikes, and hammering, bony bulbs. They roamed Earth roughly 175 million years ago, and most were wiped out by an extinction event roughly 65 million years ago. Find out facts about dinosaurs , including Diplodocus and Stegosaurus, and uncover what science is revealing about the appearance and lives of these prehistoric animals. Over a thousand dinosaur species once roamed the Earth. Learn which ones were the largest and the smallest, what dinosaurs ate and how they behaved, as well ...