Dinosaurs are one of the most magnificent creatures that ever lived on earth. These creatures, which ruled over the time they lived millions of years ago, deserve this title to the fullest thanks to their wildness, gigantic size and many other interesting features.
Here are 17 surprising facts you need to know about dinosaurs…
1- The dinosaur, called Ankylosaurus magniventris, had a stick-like tail that it used to ward off other predators.
2- The longest-living dinosaurs have an average life expectancy of 70 to 80 years.
3- Dinosaurs were social creatures and traveled in herds
4- The tallest known dinosaur was 18 meters tall
5- TRexler had a stronger jaw structure than any other land-dwelling creature.
According to recent studies, a T-Rex bite weighs 7.1 tons.
6- How dinosaurs were born was unknown until 1923.
They were supposed to reproduce by laying eggs, just like reptiles. However, there was no evidence for this. But the fossilized dinosaur eggs discovered in Mongolia in 1923 cleared our doubts.
7- Crocodiles and dinosaurs are distantly related
8- Dinosaur Therizinosaurs had claws that could extend up to one meter
9- Dinosaur species Microraptor had 4 wings
10- Dinosaurs didn’t all go extinct at the same time
Dinosaurs disappeared within a few hundred years following the cataclysm that caused the extinction.
11- We don’t know for sure what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs
But the two possible causes of the largest mass extinction in history are climate change or a massive meteorite hitting our planet.
12- The teeth of the dinosaur species Nigersaurus were renewed every 14 days.
Because this creature had dozens of teeth waiting in reserve in its mouth! In this way, the worn-out teeth fell out of the dinosaur’s mouth and replaced by new ones.
13- Most of the world’s dinosaur fossils are found in the wastelands of China, Argentina, and North America.
However, it is possible to come across dinosaur fossils in almost every geography of the world.
14- The largest known dinosaur species “Titanosaurus”
15- More than 900 dinosaur species are known to have lived on Earth.
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16- Dinosaurs are basically divided into two different categories.
The first is “aurischian,” which means “lizard-hipped” in Greek. The other is “ornithischian,” meaning “bird-hipped.”
17- Dinosaurs lived in the Mesozoic era
This period spans roughly 245 to 65 million years ago and is split into three periods: Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous. It is estimated that the number and diversity of dinosaurs, which first evolved in the Triassic period, increased during the Jurassic period. In the Cretaceous period, they disappeared!
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