The Maiasaura is a duckbilled dinosaur(hadrosaur) that lived in the Montana-ish area. She had a flat skull and crests above her eyes. Her name is pronounced My-yah-sore-ah, it means "Good Mother Lizard." She was called this because she was the first dino to be found within close proximity of her young and most likely took care of them. (notice, her name ends in an "a" versus an "us" because she is one of the few dinos that has a feminine name!) She was roughly 30 ft and weighed 8,000 lbs. She ate plants and berries (probably about 200lbs a day!) and nested in herds with other Maiasuara(nests were generally only about 7ft apart). She could walk on either two or four legs cause she was pretty talented.
Random fact: The Maiasaura was the first dino in space! In 1985 astronauts took a piece of bone and eggshell on a mission. Cool.
Side note: When I was in 6th grade, my dino project was done on this girl.
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