Everybody poops! But did dinosaurs poop like people or like birds?

What you can learn from this lesson

• The similarities and differences between GI tracts of humans, birds, and dinosaurs
• How food flows down the GI tract
• The roles of the crop, proventriculus or stomach, and the gizzard
• The meaning of the  terms carnivore, herbivore, and omnivore and how these terms apply to birds, mammals and/or dinosaurs

The Very Hungry Dino

We do not know what dinosaur poop was like and because we know what animal and bird poop is like, we may be able to guess what dino poop was like. Lets explore what it would look like if they were more like birds than people!

Activities

Ask your teacher for the coloring pages and see if you can draw out the parts of the Dino’s gastrointestinal system!

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Assessment

Label the different parts of the Dino’s gastrointestinal system by dragging and dropping the names of the parts to the right spots on its body!