Monthly competition: Time-travelling animal adventure

We received so many fantastic entries to our Time-Travelling Animal Adventure competition – thank you to everyone who took part! We loved seeing your creative ideas, colourful drawings and exciting stories. From racing dinosaurs to rescuing baby pterodactyls, your time-travel tales truly brought the past to life. It was a tough decision, but here are our four winning entries...

Congrats to our four winners!

Luca, age 6, Waterlooville

The Vegavis iaai

Ada, age 8, Riccall

Interview with Mr Dilo the Dilophosaurus

Zeta, age 9, London

Baby pterodactyl rescue

Araliya, age 10, Barnstaple

Longisquama

Runners-Up

Georgia, age 8

A Gallimimus and Me

"A gallimimus was a prehistoric dinosaur that could run at the speed of over 30 miles per hour! It ate tiny insects, small animals, eggs and plants, so it was an omnivore and it ate what was available. It was estimated to be about 6 metres wide and 2.5 metres tall. If I met a gallimimus I would have a race against it to see how fast it really is. I would definitely have a meal with it in its home, which is now known as Mongolia. Maybe I could help it escape an Alioramus, one of the gallimimus's predators in the cretaceous period, the time that the gallimimuses were alive."

Tabitha, age 7, Draycott

Dodo

Lauren, age 8, Yelland 

Woolly mammoth

Lincoln, age 5, Leven

Megaladon

Alice, age 8, Cambridge

Me and the Nautilus