Prehistoric Times
Extinct now, but once roamed free
Many dinosaurs
These aren’t meat eaters
Herbivores eat vegetables
Grasses and tree leaves
Carnivores eat meat
Deadly hunters in the wild
Hunts the herbivores
Jurassic Era
Saw dinosaurs come and go
New breed on the rise
Early Jurassic
Before Cretaceous Era
Dinosaurs roamed then
Dilophosaurus
It’s a carnivore
And traveled in groups
The Fabrosaurus
Had five fingers on its hands
Was a fast runner
Lesothosaurus
Had large eyes and a long snout
Bird hipped plant eater
Late Jurassic
Leading into Cretaceous
When all things ended
The Torvosaurus
Flesh eater with savage claws
Powerfully built
Tuojiangosaurus
Was first plated dinosaur
Sharp spikes on its tail
The Camptosaurus
Its snout had a horny beak
And had five fingers
Dinosaurs take flight
These dinosaurs owned the air
Lizards more than birds
The Pterodactyl
Jurassic and Cretaceous
Forty foot wingspan
Pteranodons
Wingspan of twenty-five feet
Bony crest on head
Early Cretaceous
Beginning of the last age
When dinosaurs lived
This one has fifteen inch claw
His name is Utahraptor
Deadly carnivore
The Deinonychus
Speedy pursuit of its prey
Excellent eyesight
Tenontosaurus
He was a large plant eater
Balanced with his tail
The late Cretaceous
Dinosaurs roamed the earth
But are no extinct
Velociraptor
A ferocious preditor
Retractable claw
The Triceratops
Dinosaur, one of the last
To become extinct
Tyrannosaurus
Better known as the T-Rex
King of meat eaters
Protoceratops
This forerunner of the horned
Every stage of life
Brachiosaurs
Late Jurassic Period
One of the largest
These Ice Age mammals
Lived on the frozen tundra
Ice age extinction
Saber Tooth Tiger
They lived during the ice age
Strongest Predator
The Wooly Mammoth
The elephant’s ancestor
Caveman’s winter feast
Adapted to cold
The Wooly Rhinoceros
Shaggy fur, large horns
Extinct knows no age
More animals of today
Man wiped them all out
The flightless Dodo
On Mauritius Island
By dogs, pigs and rats
Gone by the wayside
West African Black Rhino
Poachers did the deed
Baiji Dolphin
White dolphin is now extinct
Gone from the ocean
Gone the Golden Toad
Only one male existed
So they are no more
Spix’s Macaw
Trapping and habitat loss
Parrots from Brazil
Beautiful curved horns
Pyrenean Ibex gone
Horn rings tells its age
Quagga extinct
Varity of Zebra
Stripes on body front
Tasmanian wolf
Carnivorous predator
He was Nocturnal
The Javan Tiger
Agriculture encroachment
Nineteen seventy-two