Briefly introduces various types of dinosaurs whose skeletons and reconstructions are seen in museums and explains how scientists uncover, preserve, and study fossilized dinosaur bones.
Presents information about the evolution of the dinosuars, from the earliest four-limbed tetrapos of the Paleozoic age, to the meat-eating eoraptors of early Triassic, to the fully-developed dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
On a visit to a natural history museum, a little boy sees fossilized skeletons of dinosaurs and learns what archaeologists have discovered about the physical appearance and habits of these huge, extinct creatures.