Interesting Facts about Dinosaurs for Children

Here are few interesting facts about Dinosaurs that you can tell your children:

• 'Dinosaurs' is the name given by Scientists to a special kind of creature that lived on earth 260 millions year ago. Dinosaurs are no more found on earth now.
  
  

Interesting facts about Elephants for Children

Here are few interesting facts about Elephants that you can tell your kids:
  

• Elephants are the largest land-living mammal in the world.
   
• Elephants talk to each other by making sounds called "tummy rumbles"
   
• There are two popular types of Elephants - The Asian Elephants and the African Elephants
   
• Both male and female African Elephants have tusks, but only the male Asian Elephants have tusks
   
• Elephants can swim in water - they use their trunk to breathe in deep water.
   

• Elephants are herbivores - they eat leaves, twigs, bamboo and roots.
    
• Elephants drink plenty of water. An elephant needs to drink 200+ litres of water a day. An Elephant can smell water 3 miles away. It could carry 2 gallons of water in its trunk.
   
• Elephants live for 70 - 80 years.
   
• An elephant weigh about 10,000+ pounds and can reach the heigh of 8+ feet.
   
• The biggest danger for Elephants are Humans. They mercilessly kill elephants for their tusk.