FANTASTIC TRIVIA ABOUT DINOSAURS
Added on: 1st Nov 2016
ONE OF THE EARLIEST KNOWN DINOSAURS IS
THE EOROPTOR, WHICH MEANS "DAWN STEALER".
IT WAS NAMED THIS BECAUSE IT LIVED AT
THE DAWN OF THE DINOSAUR AGE
ALTHOUGH THERE ARE MANY EXPLANATIONS FOR
THE MASS EXTINCTION OF DINOSAURS 65 MILLION
YEARS AGO, THERE IS NO UNANIMOUS CONCLUSION
AMONG SCIENTISTS AS TO WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED
BORN IN 1799, MARY ANNING WAS A PRODIGIOUS
FOSSIL HUNTER BUT WAS NEVER TAKEN
SERIOUS BECAUSE SHE WAS A WOMAN
MOST MEAT EATING DINOSAURS WALKED ON TWO
FEET WHILE MOST PLANT EATERS WALKED
ON ALL FOURS
THE LARGEST DINOSAUR EGGS WERE AS BIG
AS BASKETBALLS
MOST DINOSAURS WERE VEGETARIAN AND THE
BIGGEST ONES HAD TO EAT UP TO 1 TON OF
FOOD EVERY SINGLE DAY. THAT IS ABOUT THE
EQUIVALENT OF A SCHOOL BUS!
ALTHOUGH THEY ARE ALWAYS SEEN TOGETHER
IN MOVIES, THE STEGOSAURUS AND TYRANNOSAURUS
DIDN'T LIVE AT THE SAME TIME. BY THE TIME THE
TYRANNOSAURUS APPEARED, THE STEGOSAURUS
HAD BEEN EXTINCT FOR 80 MILLION YEARS. THE CRAZY
THING IS THAT THE TIME BETWEEN US RIGHT NOW
AND THE TYRANNOSAURUS IS SHORTER THAN THAT!
THE FIRST POTENTIAL DINOSAUR BONES WERE FOUND
IN CHINA NEARLY 4,000 YEARS AGO. AT THAT TIME,
HOWEVER, PEOPLE THOUGHT THE BONES
BELONGED TO DRAGONS
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