GIGANTIC FACTS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT DINOSAURS

SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THAT SOME DINOSAURS

WERE COLD-BLOODED AND SOME WARM-BLOODED,

WHILE THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN OTHERS THAT

WERE NOT FULLY ONE OR THE OTHER. THEY

SPECULATE THAT SMALL MEAT EATERS MAY HAVE

BEEN WARM-BLOODED WHILE PLANT EATERS THAT

WERE NOT AS ACTIVE WERE PROBABLY

COLD-BLOODED

EXPLORER ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS FOUND THE

FIRST DINOSAUR NEST KNOWN TO SCIENCE IN 1923

IN THE GOBI DESERT IN MONGOLIA. BEFORE HE FOUND

THE NEST, SCIENTISTS WERE UNSURE HOW

DINOSAURS WERE BORN

EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE A FEW THEORIES ABOUT

THE DINOSAURS’ EXTINCTION THE MOST

ACCURATE APPEARS TO BE THE ONE CONCERNING

A MASSIVE METEORITE HITTING THE YUCATAN

PENINSULA IN MEXICO 65.5 MILLION YEARS AGO.

THE 112-MILE-WIDE CRATER WAS CAUSED BY A ROCK

SIX MILES IN DIAMETER. IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE

ONLY ANIMALS TO SURVIVE THIS MASSIVE

DESTRUCTION WERE SHARKS, JELLYFISH FISH,

SCORPIONS, BIRDS, INSECTS, SNAKES, TURTLES,

LIZARDS, AND CROCODILES

THE MASS EXTINCTION OF THE DINOSAURS AND OTHER

LAND ANIMALS THAT FOLLOWED AFTER THE

COLLISION IS KNOWN AS THE CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY

EXTINCTION EVENT, OR THE K-T EVENT. SCIENTISTS

HAVE VARIOUS THEORIES ABOUT THE EXTINCTION

WITH THE MOST POPULAR SUGGESTING THAT SMALL

MAMMALS ATE DINOSAUR EGGS UNTIL THE

POPULATION BECAME UNSUSTAINABLE

LIKE BIRDS AND REPTILES TODAY, DINOSAURS BUILT

NESTS AND LAID EGGS. SOME EVEN FED AND

PROTECTED THEIR BABIES

MODERN BIRDS HAVE A SINGLE BODY OPENING FOR

URINATION, DEFECATION, AND REPRODUCTION:

A CLOACA (LATIN FOR “SEWER”). PALAEONTOLOGISTS

BELIEVE THAT DINOSAURS WERE SIMILARLY

DESIGNED AND REPRODUCED BY PRESSING THEIR

CLOACA’S TOGETHER IN A “CLOACAL KISS.”

THIS IS THE REASON WHY SOME SCIENTISTS BELIEVE

THAT BIRDS ARE A SURVIVING GENETICALLY MODIFIED

(LIKE MUTANTS IN X-MEN) SPECIES OF DINOSAURS

AND THUS DINOSAURS ARE NOT ACTUALLY EXTINCT

THE EARLIEST NAMED DINOSAUR FOUND SO FAR

IS THE EORAPTOR, WHICH MEANS “DAWN STEALER.”

IT WAS NAMED THIS BECAUSE IT LIVED AT THE

DAWN OF THE DINOSAUR AGE. IT WAS A MEAT EATER

ABOUT THE SIZE OF A GERMAN SHEPHERD