Maiasaura
Pronounced: MY-uh-SOR-uh
🌿 Herbivore 🌺 Cretaceous
The ‘good mother lizard’! It was found along with its nests and the remains of its young.
- length
- 9 m
- weight
- 3 t
- lived
- 80–75 million years ago
- diet
- Herbivore
Did you know?
- Mothers looked after their babies in huge nesting colonies! 🥚
- Newly hatched babies couldn’t walk well at first.
- Its fossils showed scientists how some dinosaurs cared for their young.
How big were they?
Maiasaura: 9 m – about 6.9 times your height!