2006-06-27 08:36:32 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
It depends on the source, I have heard them referred to as calves and hatchlings in general but depending on the species they sometimes also have specific names.
2006-06-27 08:52:57 · answer #1 · answered by HannahCarrietta 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thank you very much!!!! My son found this question and wants to know too!!!
I have just tried ringing the Natural History Museum but the palaeontology lady is out until Monday! However, they do have a very good website for you to explore!
From what I can gather, having searched the internet, I can only find them referred to as baby dinosaurs.
What I do know is that a big problem with dinosaurs is that babies change as they grow up, so sometimes they have called the baby dinosaur a different species to the adult. To explain this simply to your son, take the frog. The eggs are called frogspawn. From the frogspawn, tadpoles develop. these slowly turn into frogs. However, if you found a fossilised tadpole, there is no way you would think it would grow up into a frog, you would think it was a different species.
There is a lot we do not know about dinosaurs but so far as I can discover, they all laid eggs.
I hope this helps a little bit!!!
2006-06-30 02:45:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard raptor young called chicks and i think the large herbivores such as diplodocous called calves.
Edit: On Walking with Dinosaurs on the BBC i think, so may not be right terminology because the whole thing was a made up.
2006-06-27 08:49:05 · answer #3 · answered by blank 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately I don't think they have a name really - just baby triceratops, or baby tyrannosaurus rex - not very exciting.
One perfectly preserved baby dinosaur fossil found in Colorado has been the focus of alot of recent interest, and is known as Baby Louie, but thats not quite what you meant I reckon!
2006-06-27 08:44:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are usually just called baby dinosaurs, but when I was younger and thought that dinosaurs were the best things ever I came to know them as "Hatchlings"
2006-06-27 08:41:32 · answer #5 · answered by Chris G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some were called Brian other popular names were Angela, Gill, Gladys, Rose, Agnes and Florence. There are many more, so many I can't list them all.
Hope this helps
2006-06-27 08:50:22 · answer #6 · answered by loki_mcbedlam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eggs
2006-06-27 08:40:37 · answer #7 · answered by engineer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think baby dinosaurs have a special name.
Here is a game your son might enjoy!
http://www.squiglysplayhouse.com/Games/Quizzes/Animals/BabyAnimals2.html
2006-06-27 08:47:54 · answer #8 · answered by Tamborine 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The newly hatched or very young ones are called hatchlings
2006-06-27 08:42:33 · answer #9 · answered by TRACY B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as i know anything that hatches out of an egg is a Hatchling
2006-06-27 08:47:10 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋