Page 43 - Everything You Know About Dinosaurs is Wrong

Having long fingers is a big help if you spend your time in trees. SCANSORIOPTERYX had huge hands and palaeontologists now think it used them
for holding on to branches.
Living in trees is a great way to avoid predators and find new types of tasty food. Today, lots of animals – from baby Komodo dragons to some types of goats – spend at least some of their time up in the branches!
With fleshy skin almost like wings draped between their long fingers, Y I and AMBOPTERYX looked a little like bats do today. These dinosaurs could probably glide between the trees, hunting insects and small reptiles.
Dinosaurs like EPIDEXIPTERYX had long arms from the time they hatched. They also had long, curved claws to hold
on to branches. They may have used their hard tails to help them balance, just like woodpeckers do today.
MICRORAPTOR probably couldn’t beat its wings, but having four wings rather than two meant it could glide from tree to tree as it hunted species of early birds!
DIno fact!
In 2020, palaeontologists discovered a new
S P I N O S A U R U S skeleton that showed that it had a long tail that looked like a crocodile's and could have been used to help it swim. This
is brand-new science that might show that SPINOSAURUS lived most of its life in the water!
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