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Dinosaurs Facts

1)Despite the title, most of the dinosaurs from "Jurassic Park" lived during the cretaceous period.                                 
2)Most dinosaurs are known from just a single tooth or bone.
3)The smallest known dinosaurs were about four inches (10 cm) tall and weight more than a chihuahua.
4)The word "dinosaur" comes from ancient Greek and means "terrible lizard". 
5)One of the smallest dinosaurs discovered had the size of a chicken and ate insects.  6.40% of Americans think that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time.
7)There's a limestone cliff with over 5,000 dinosaur footprints in Bolivia, with many dating back 68 million years.
8)In 2015, a 4-years-old searching for fossils found 100 Million-years-old Dinosaur bones.
9)Dinosaurs Weren't the First Reptiles to Rule the Earth.
10)Dinosaurs Prospered for Over 150 Million Years.
11)The Dinosaur Kingdom Comprised Two Main Branches.
12)Dinosaurs (Almost Certainly) Evolved Into Birds.
13)Some Dinosaurs Were Warm-Blooded.
14)The Vast Majority of Dinosaurs Were Plant Eaters.
15)Not All Dinosaurs Were Equally Dumb.
16)Dinosaurs Lived at the Same Time as Mammals.
17)Pterosaurs and Marine Reptiles Weren't Technically Dinosaurs.
18)Dinosaurs Didn't All Go Extinct at the Same Time.
19)The Apatosaurus’ Tail Could Break the Sound Barrier.
20)The name Tyrannosaurus Rex means “king of the tyrant lizards”.

 

Amazing Facts About Dinosaurs And Information

1)Tyrannosaurus Rex walked on two legs, balancing its huge head with a long and heavy tail that sometimes contained over 40 vertebrae.

2)Tyrannosaurus Rex lived about 65 to 70 million years ago in the late cretaceous period.

3)Equipped with a set of 50-60 banana-sized teeth, these expert eaters could bite 100kg of flesh off their victims in a single chomp!

4)Tyrannosaurus Rex had strong thighs and a large tail to counterbalance the weight of its skull which was approximately 5 feet. Due to strong thighs, it could run at a rather fast pace ranging from 17 to 40 km/hour.

5)Tyrannosaurus Rex had small arms that were extremely powerful and featured two clawed fingers.

6)Tyrannosaurus Rex were meat eaters. They probably hunted Hadrosaurs and Triceratops. They would have also scavenged – stealing meals from smaller predators.

7) Scientists believe the Tyrannosaurus Rex could run at speeds of up to 40km/h. Whilst they were by no means the fastest dinosaurs (some could sprint at 60km/h), they’d still be able to catch most humans.

8)Scientists now believe the Spinosaurus was the largest carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur. Spinosaurus lived both on land and in water like a crocodile and was alive during the Cretaceous Period (about 145 to 66 million years ago).

9)The word “dinosaur” was originally coined by a British paleontologist named Richard Owen in 1842 and came from the Greek words dienos (“terrible”) and sauros (“reptile”).

10)There were actually reptiles on Earth before dinosaurs. Before the first dinosaurs walked the Earth about 230 million years ago, the earth was dominated by reptiles known as archosaurs and therapsids.

11)Many dinosaur skulls had big holes that both made them lighter and helped to keep them cool.

12) Scientists speculate that some large dinosaurs like the Apatosaurus lived as long as 300 years.

13)Many scientists believe that there are still lots of dinosaurs that haven’t been discovered yet.

14)The first dinosaur ever named was the Megalosaurus, named in 1824 by Reverend William Buckland.

15)The enormous Seismosaurus (“Earthquake reptile”), believed to be the biggest dinosaur, was about 150 feet long from head to tail. That’s half of a football field!

16)Dinosaur remains were first discovered in North America on the upper Missouri River in 1854 by American geologist Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden.

17)Dinosaur remains have been found on every continent, even Antarctica.

18)While most people think that all dinosaurs were very big, the smallest was about the size of chickens, and current estimates place the average dinosaur at about the size of a small car.

19)The biggest dinosaur eggs scientists know of are the eggs of the stegosaurus, which were about 19 inches long.

20)The single biggest dinosaur bone ever found is a 5×5 ft. argentinosaurus vertebra (backbone) fossil that weighed over a ton.

Incredible Dinosaurs Facts

1)The smallest dinosaur eggs ever found measured about 0.7 inches (smaller than the diameter of a penny!) and were found in northeastern Thailand in 2002 and 2003.

2)Most carnivorous dinosaurs were bipeds, meaning they walked on two feet. Walking on two feet helped them move faster and left their hands free to catch their prey.

3)The dinosaur with the longest name is the 23-letter Micropachycephalosaurus (“Small, thick-headed reptile”), which was found in China.

4)The American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews found the first known dinosaur eggs in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in 1923. Before his discovery, scientists didn’t know exactly how dinosaurs reproduced.

5)The Tyrannosaurus (“Tyrant Lizard”) had the longest teeth of any carnivorous dinosaur at 8 inches.

6)Most scientists agree that modern birds evolved from dinosaurs, specifically a group of dinosaurs known as theropods (“beast footed”).

7)Herbivorous (plant-eating) dinosaurs often traveled in herds for safety from potential predators. When these herds moved, the trampling of the ground sometimes left “superhighways,” like the one uncovered in China in 2001. 

8)Turns Out The T-Rex Wasn't Actually The Dinosaur King; That's The Spinosaurus.

9)Not All Dinosaurs Were Big, Either.

10)Not Everything That Lived During The Age Of Dinosaurs Was Actually A Dinosaur.

11)Turns Out The Apatosaurus And Brontosaurus Are The Same Dinosaurs.

12)The Movie Jurassic Park Didn't Do The Velociraptor Justice.

13)Stegosaurus Plates Aren't Actually Part Of Their Skeleton.

14)Over 1,000 Unique Species Of Dinosaurs Existed.

15)The terrific T. Rex was a seriously big beast, growing up to 12m long and 6m tall!

16)These fearsome prehistoric creatures were carnivores, feasting on the flesh of the unfortunate animals they caught.

17)Equipped with a set of 50-60 banana-sized teeth, these expert eaters could rip almost 100kg of flesh off their victims in a single chomp!

18)The T. Rex was super smart too, boasting a brain twice as big as those of the other giant carnivores.

19)This deadly dinosaur’s two tiny, clawed arms (less than one meter in length) remain a bit of a mystery to this day. Many scientists think they may have been used to help these skilled hunters to grab and slash their prey.

20)More than 20 almost-complete t rex skeletons have been found. The most perfect, nicknamed Sue, was unearthed in South Dakota, USA, 20 years ago.

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