30 Amazing facts about Dinosaur
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Dinosaur animals existed long before the birth of the human species on Earth. These giant animals lived for a long time and continued their rule, and then for some reason their species was completely destroyed.
[1] For 165 million years, life on Earth was dominated by the most spectacular animals that have ever existed the dinosaurs.
[2] Dinosaurs were a diverse and successful group of reptiles that dominated life on land for about 140 million years.
[3] The first dinosaur found in Antarctica was the ankylosaur Antarctopelta.
[4] Scientists once thought that the first animals evolved about 542 million years ago at the start of the Cambrian Period.
[5] The first theropods evolved in the late Triassic Period, about 230 million years ago, and were small, lightly built animals.
[6] The age of dinosaurs began 230 million years ago, during the Triassic Period.
[7] The Mesozoic Era ended 66 million years ago with a mass extinction event that eliminated all dinosaurs except the birds.
[8] It may have been caused by the impact of a giant asteroid in what is now Mexico.
[9] At the same time, huge volcanoes were erupting in India, and the combination must have had catastrophic effects on the climate.
[10] 800 species of dinosaurs have been named by scientists.
[11] The biggest sauropod dinosaurs could weigh as much as 13 elephants.
[12] The largest dinosaur egg was the size of a basketball, the egg was larger to win, its shell was thicker.
[13] first carnivorous dinosaurs originated, followed by vegetarian dinosaurs
[14] mostly dinosaurs were vegetarians
[15] The triceratops dinosaur’s skull was the largest, its skull was 2 meters long.
[16] One fossil site in China has yielded more than 7,000 dinosaur bones.
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[17] Mosasaurus was a powerful predator that lived at the very end of the age of dinosaurs.
[18] Pterodactylus was a warm-blooded, furry-bodied animal that probably flew as well as a bird.
[19] FOSSIL REMAINS TELL US THAT THE BIGGEST PTEROSAUR WAS THE SIZE OF A SMALL PLANE, WITH AN AMAZING 39 FT (12 M) Mosasaurus WINGSPAN.
[20] The tyrannosaurs were the most deadly hunters of the entire 165-million-year Mesozoic Era of the age of dinosaurs.
[21] Tyrannosaur teeth were bigger and stronger than those of any meat-eating dinosaur found so far. The biggest were at least 8 in (20 cm) long.
[22] Tyrannosaurs weighed as much as an adult male African elephant.
[23] TYRANNOSAURUS HAD THE MOST POWERFUL BITE OF ANY LAND ANIMAL THAT HAS EVER LIVED AT LEAST FOUR TIMES THE STRENGTH OF AN ALLIGATOR’S.
[24] More than 30 fossil Tyrannosaurus specimens have been discovered.
[25] 80 percent, or more, of all known dinosaurs
[26] All the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era except the very earliest species belonged to two main groups known as the ornithischians and saurischians.
[27] Hadrosaurs lived during the Cretaceous Period, between 100–66 million years ago. They roamed the forests and swamps of North and South America, Europe, and Asia.
[28] Triceratops itself was one of the last giant dinosaurs to roam the Earth.
[29] Heterodontosaurus had several different types of teeth, which may have enabled it to eat both animals and plants.
[30] Found in 2008 in Patagonia, Argentina, the bones of Patagotitan are so big that its total length is estimated to be up to 121 ft (37 m), with a weight equivalent to 12 African elephants. Only the blue whale is heavier.
