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
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
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
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?
COLORADO’S NICKNAME IS THE STEGOSAURUS
STATE BECAUSE THE FIRST EVER STEGOSAURUS
SKELETON WAS FOUND NEAR MORRISON, 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
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
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
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