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HUGE FACTS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT DINOSAURS

Added on: 6th Oct 2016

 

ALL DINOSAURS LAID EGGS. ABOUT FORTY KINDS OF

DINOSAUR EGGS HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED TO DATE

eggs

 

 

THE WORD “DINOSAUR” WAS COINED BY BRITISH

PALAEONTOLOGIST RICHARD OWEN IN 1842. IT IS

GREEK FOR “TERRIBLE LIZARD.” RATHER THAN

IMPLYING THAT DINOSAURS WERE FEARSOME,

OWEN USED THE TERM TO REFER TO THEIR

MAJESTY AND SIZE

Richard Owen

 

 

SOME DINOSAURS’ TAILS WERE OVER FORTY FIVE

FEET LONG. HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY

THIS WAS SO? WELL, ACCORDING TO

PALAEONTOLOGISTS, MOST DINOSAURS HAD

LONG TAILS BECAUSE IT HELPED THEM TO KEEP

THEIR BALANCE WHEN RUNNING

dinosaurs’ tails

 

 

CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, THE MAJORITY

OF DINOSAURS WERE USUALLY HUMAN SIZED OR

SMALLER. SCIENTISTS ASSURE US THE ONLY REASON

WE HAVE DISCOVERED HUGE BONES IS THAT

THOSE WERE JUST EASIER TO BE FOSSILIZED.

MAKES SENSE, NO?

Dinosaur's size

 

 

COLORADO’S NICKNAME IS THE STEGOSAURUS

STATE BECAUSE THE FIRST EVER STEGOSAURUS

SKELETON WAS FOUND NEAR MORRISON, COLORADO

Colorado

 

 

EVEN THOUGH NO ONE KNOWS EXACTLY HOW

LONG A DINOSAUR’S LIFESPAN WAS, SOME

SCIENTISTS SUGGEST THAT SOME DINOSAURS

COULD LIVE FOR AS LONG AS TWO HUNDRED YEARS

Dinosaur Fossils

 

 

THE FASTEST DINOSAUR WAS THE ORNITHOMIMUS.

ACCORDING TO SCIENTIFIC ESTIMATIONS, IT COULD

RUN UP TO 43.5 MPH (70 KM/H). THIS IS ABOUT

TWENTY FIVE KM/H FASTER THAN USAIN BOLT

Usain Bolt

 

 

DINOSAURS WERE THE DOMINANT SPECIES ON OUR

PLANET FOR MORE THAN 165 MILLION YEARS WHILE

HUMANS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR ABOUT TWO

MILLION YEARS, GIVE OR TAKE

Earth

 


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