how do we know if a dinosaur skeleton is from a child dinosaur or an adult dinosaur?
- Written by Caitlin Syme, PhD in Vertebrate Palaeontology, The University of Queensland

When you find dinosaur skeletons, how can you tell how old the dinosaur was? Like, if the skeleton is from a child dinosaur or an adult dinosaur? – Henry, aged 8.
Hi Henry, that’s a good but tricky question.
There are a couple of ways we can try to tell how old a dinosaur was...