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MYTHOLOGIES ABOUT DINOSAURS YOU MIGHT NEED TO STOP BELIEVING IN

Added on: 11th Oct 2016

 

DINOSAURS WERE SLOW CREATURES

Zalmoxes_dinosaur

A common dinosaur myth is that the creatures were

Slow moving and dragged their tails on the ground. In fact,

most dinosaurs were athletic animals and even quite nimble!

 

 

OIL COMES FROM DINOSAURS

dead dinosaur

Here’s another dinosaur misconception! Some people think

when a dinosaur died naturally or in a landslide (or other

natural disaster), it was covered in sediment and turned to

oil over many millions of years. The fact is that dino flesh

would have rapidly decayed or been scavenged way before

it could have been converted.

 

 

DINOSAURS ARE ALL EXTINCT

Dino_bird_comparison

Well, not exactly. Whereas all the T-Rexs’ and sauropods

have long been buried, one of eight major dinosaur groups,

theropods, survived the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction

event and one of the over 40 subgroups of theropods

evolved into many birds we know today.

 

 

DINOSAURS WERE ALL HUGE CREATURES

Epidexipteryx

Though the dinosaurs which make it onto the silver screen

and capture our attention are generally the larger,

terrifying beasts, plenty of dinosaurs were quite small.

Some of the smallest dinosaurs palaeontologists have

identified weighed only a half a pound (200g). One such

example, Epidexipteryx, weighed about 5.8 ounces (164g)

and was about the size of an adult human foot.

 

 

DINOSAURS WERE POOR SWIMMERS

Seeleysaurus

Many people think dinosaurs which roamed the lands

were too big and cumbersome to be good swimmers, but an

international team of researchers have found evidence in

China of nimble two legged dinosaurs swimming in rivers.

 

 

T-REX ARMS WERE USELESS

Feathered_Tyrannosaurus_model

Looking at the size of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, it seems like a

creature which only focused on squats at the gym and

always forgot arm day, right? This is another dinosaur myth!

Though their arms weren’t as terrifying as their massive jaws,

each T-Rex arm could have handled objects and animals up

to a few hundreds of pounds with ease.

 

 

JURASSIC PARK DINOSAURS ARE FROM THE

JURASSIC PERIOD

Jurassic_Park,_US

“Jurassic Park” is without question one of the most popular

dinosaur films ever made. But even its name is wrong.

The popular dinos from the film, including the T-Rex,

Triceratops, and Velociraptor, didn’t even live in the

Jurassic Period (201.3-145 million years ago). They were

all terrors of the Cretaceous period immediately

following the Jurassic period.

 

 

DINOSAUR MEANS "TERRIBLE LIZARD"

velociraptor scream

First off, dinosaurs aren’t lizards, they’re reptiles. Secondly,

the Greek word “deinos”, which palaeontologist Richard Owen

used in naming dinosaurs in 1842, means “fearfully great.”

Simplifications over time have reduced it to “terrible”.

 


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