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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...
The Vegavis iaai
Interview with Mr Dilo the Dilophosaurus
Baby pterodactyl rescue
Longisquama
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."
Dodo
Lauren, age 8, Yelland
Woolly mammoth
Megaladon
Me and the Nautilus
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This competition asked you to design a secret egg hidden somewhere in nature, and your entries went far beyond the obvious nests and burrows. Eggs arrived disguised as pine cones, floating on leaf boats, perched on volcano ledges, tucked into cloud cover and even masquerading as chocolate Easter eggs to fool foxes. Thank you to every reader who took up the challenge and thought like a parent bird, fish, reptile or imaginary creature trying to keep their precious egg safe.
We were swept away by the response to this competition. Letters arrived from rivers across the world – the Thames, the Mississippi and many more unnamed waterways – each one brimming with personality, passion and a genuine love of the natural world. You gave your rivers voices that were worried, hop...
