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Missing Letters
Find the missing letters and complete the names of the fossils.

1. s _ _ _ i l y ish

2. p l _ _ _ amm

3. _ _ _ e m n i t e ilo

4. f _ _ _ eal

5. t r _ _ _ b i t e ark

6. _ _ _ o n i t e ant

7. b _ _ _ bel

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 Mixed up bones
1._______________
Name the parts of this reptile
skeleton. Can you sort the jumbled
2._______________
letters?

3._______________

trebrav 3.
v

bris 5.
r

lait 6.
t
2.
lulks s
1.
ethet t

oset 4.
t

4._________

5.________

6._______________

Word bank
ribs
skull
vertebra
toes
tail
teeth

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 Jurassic sea life
Join the dots and find out what is swimming in the sea. Do you know the
names of these plants and animals? Label them with the right number.

Word bank
1. sea urchin
2. sea lily (Pentacrinites)
3. belemnite
4. brittlestar
5. gryphaea (Devil’s toenail)
6. coral
7. ammonite

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 Sea Dragons?
Complete the following sentences:
Mosasaurs were not dragons. The name means
“Meuse Lizard” after the river in Holland where they
were first………….. They were not dinosaurs but
powerful swimming………… Mosasaurs were the
largest …………...ever. They used their long jaws
and sharp ………….
To help them seize passing fish. Unlike lizards, their
long powerful tails were ………….. like an oar for
swimming. Their limbs were short, strong flippers
which acted like…………… Mosasaurs
were…………….., up to ………….
metres in length. They had huge hinged ………
to allow them to swallow massive chunks of food.
They were………….. and ate fish, turtles and shell-
fish.

WORD BANK
paddles teeth enormous
carnivorous reptiles jaws
flattened lizards found
seventeen

Which part of a mosasaur have

you seen today?....................
Can you draw it?
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 Fossil wordsearch
How many of these words can you find?
d c a v e b e a r p a w
e o a j c o r a l r a o 22
v n m a a n a i o o l o
bone vertebra
i e m w i e e a u o e d
sea lily tooth
l f o o d r r i n t a i
root antler
s a n a r b e t r e v n cone cave bear paw
t r i l o b i t e e e o ammonite reptile
o s t a r f i s h e s s trilobite wood
e e e i e a r e l t n a leaves crab
n a c r a b h t o o t u starfish jaw
a l i e a e l i t p e r devil’s toenails dinosaur egg
i i o b e l e m n i t e
coral mosasaur
sea urchin belemnite
l l n i h c r u a e s g
s y m o s a s a u r o g

Word hunt
How many 2,3 and 4 letter words can you make using letters in the word :
trilobites
1. 11. 21.
2. 12. 22.
3. 13. 23.
4. 14. 24.
5. 15. 25.
6. 16. 26.
7. 17. 27.
8. 18. 28.
9. 19. 29.
10. 20. 30.

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 Silhouette Crossword

Word bank
crab trilobite mammoth Have you fitted all these words into
cave-bear paw turritella sea urchin the crossword? _______
bone dinosaur egg plant
belemnite graptolite shark’s tooth
ammonite starfish

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 Shark
Shark race
race
Which shark will be first to reach the food?

a. b.

Which shark won?

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 Teeth

You have seen several different teeth today, can you draw some of
them and name the creature they belonged to?

Crossword
?
1. With pincers on a beach? 1. c
2. Largest sea creature? 2. w
3.Shell with two halves? 3. b
4.Salt water creature, alive today? 4. s
5.Fossil paw from this? 5. c b
6.Antler from this animal? 6. r
7.Tooth and tusk from this? 7. m
8.Shell twisted into spiral coil? 8. t

? What is the hidden animal? c_____________________________

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 The cave bear
Cave bear
paw
How did the cave bear get into Dan-yr-
ogof? Why did it die? Write your ideas
below.

Cold weather

Lack of food Cave lion

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 Geological Time Scale
Millions of
years ago Periods
QUATER- Eras PRESENT
DAY
QUATERNARY
C
1.8 TERTIARY A
I
N
O
Z
O
I
C
65 x x
CRETACEOUS

M
E
135 S
JURASSIC
O
Z
O
Birds
I
205 C
TRIASSIC

250 PERMIAN
Mammals
290 CARBONIFEROUS
Dinosaurs x x

Reptiles Insects
P
and
355 A spiders
DEVONIAN L Land plants
A
E
405 O
SILURIAN
Z
435
ORDOVICIAN O
I Ammonites
C and belemnites Graptolites
Fish

510
CAMBRIAN Key
x
570 First appeared Died out (extinct)
PRE-
Trilobites
CAMBRIAN

1.What do you think means?________________________________

2.How long ago did dinosaurs become extinct? ________million years ago.
3.When did mammals first appear? ________million years ago.
4.Name two groups of animals which are now extinct. 1._____________2.______________

All the fossils are to be found in a small building in the main square near the ticket office.
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