Corythosaurus
Many millions of years ago, Corythosarus (kor-ith-a-SORE-us) roamed the swamps that covered western North America.
Unlike the mighty horned and armored dinosaurs, Corythosaurus had
no armor to protect itself. It was probably easy prey for meat-eating dinosaurs such as
Tyrannosaurus rex.
The man who discovered the first Corythosaurus thought that the bony crest on
top of its head looked like the helmets worn long ago by the Corinthian warriors of ancient
Greece, so he named it Corythosaurus, or "helmet lizard."
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