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Kowtow is a Chinese ceremony of prostration that was performed by mandarins and others before the emperor. It involved going down on all fours and touching the ground with the forehead three, four or sometimes nine times.
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Antarctosaurus was a dinosaur of the Cretaceous period. Remains were first found in 1929, and have been found in South America and possibly Asia. Antarctosaurus was a herbivore about 18 metres long, with a very long tail, long neck and walked on all fours.
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Avaceratops was a dinosaur of the Cretaceous Period. The remains of an
Avaceratops were first discovered in 1981 in Montana, USA and were named in 1986 after the wife of the man who found the bones. Avaceratops was a herbivore, about 2.5 metres long, with a short bony frill over the neck, a single short horn on the snout, and walked on all fours. As only one specimen has been discovered, it is impossible to say what size the species really was, the specimen might have been of a juvenile.
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Dacentrurus was a dinosaur of the Jurassic period, one of the Stegosaurus family, about 1.5 metres wide but its length is unknown as only a few bones have been discovered. The remains of Dacentrurus were first discovered in England in the 1870's and had pairs of spines along its back. It is believed that Dacentrurus walked on all fours and was a herbivore.
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Edmonotosaurus was a flat-headed duck-billed dinosaur of the Cretaceous period. A large dinosaur it was between 10 and 13 metres long and could walk on all fours or its hind legs. The presence of over 1000 strong teeth in the mouth strongly suggests that Edmonotosaurus was a herbivore feeding on tough plants. Several skeletons of Edmonotosaurus have been found since the start of the 20th century in Canada.
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Euskelosaurus was a large dinosaur of the Triassic period. Remains of
Euskelosaurus were first discovered in Africa in the early 1860's, but very few remains have been found, and no skull, but from discovered thigh bones it is likely the animal walked on all fours and was about 12 metres long.
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Hadrosaurus was a dinosaur of the Cretaceous period. Remains of Hadrosaurus comprising a headless skeleton were discovered in New Jersey in 1858, and were the first dinosaur to be named from North America, and was also the most complete skeleton found to date. The skeleton of Hadrosaurus showed that it was about ten metres long and walked on its hind legs, until then it had been thought all dinosaurs walked on all fours. A later skull discovery showed Hadrosaurus to have had a duck-billed shaped head.
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Hylaeosaurus was a dinosaur of the Cretaceous period, remains of which were first discovered in the early 19th century at Tilgate Forest, Sussex, England.
Hylaeosaurus was about six metres long, walked on all fours and had armour with spines that stuck out upwards and also sideways along the back and tail.
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Hypacrosaurus was a dinosaur of the Cretaceous period. Hypacrosaurus was a large, duck-billed dinosaur about nine metres long that walked on all fours, with a short, high skull with a rounded crest on top. Hypacrosaurus was a herbivore and had dozens of strong teeth which were replaced when they wore away.
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Lambeosaurus was a dinosaur of the Cretaceous period. Lambeosaurus was a crested, duck-billed dinosaur with a squarish forward-pointing crest and a long rearward facing spine on top of its head. Lambeosaurus was a large dinosaur, about 15 metres long and able to walk on its hind legs or all fours.
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