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Backs and Bridges

Nature often presents solutions for engineering problems

How is the bridge similar to Apatosaurus?

What other animals lived during the late Jurassic Period?

List three that were not dinosaurs.

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What living animals were they similar to?

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Legs Back Belly
Suspension bridge

Deinonychus Dash

Scientists use fossil tracks and leg bones to estimate how fast dinosaurs moved.

Measure and record your hip height, stride length and predicted speed.

Compare it with a friend's measurements.

Name Hip height Stride length

(two paces)
Predicted speed

(from graph)
Actual speed

Racing Deinonychus
       
       

Can you run faster than Deinonychus?

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