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Dinosaur in Foreign Languages: Spanish, French, German and More

If my own two boys are any indication, kids looooooove dinosaurs!  Use these fascinating creatures to teach children about languages.  Sir Richard Owen, an English biologist, used Greek terms to give dinosaurs their name back in 1841:  deinos means terrible or fearfully great, and saurus means lizard.   The Latin term for dinosaur is Dinosauria. [...]