dinosaur, n.Trivia

Dinosaurs lived on Earth for over 165 million years before they became extinct

Dinosaurs lived on every continent.

In the U.S., if you find dinosaur bones in your backyard, those are now your dinosaur bones.

The dinosaur noises used in the movie "Jurassic Park" were made from recordings of turtles having sex.

Dinosaur farts were one of the key contributing factors to climate change 150 million years ago.

The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex

Dinosaurs swallowed large rocks that stayed in their stomach to help churn and digest food.

Dinosaurs existed before Saturn had rings.

Dinosaurs are impossible to ever clone because DNA has a half-life of 521 years. This means that the oldest organism that could be cloned could not be more than two million years old.

Dinosaurs weren't all huge --- the smallest known to have existed were around the size of a pigeon.

Grasshoppers existed before dinosaurs

Dinosaurs were not all big --- The smallest we know of was around the size of a pigeon.

The average human adult would be able to outrun a T. rex.

Despite the movie's title, most of the dinosaurs "Jurassic Park" lived during the Cretaceous period.

Dinosaurs were around for 150 million years. Humans have existed for just 0.1% of that time.

a fully-preserved dinosaur tail, still covered in delicate feathers, was found. It is 99 million years old.

George Washington died in 1799; the first dinosaur fossil was discovered in 1824. George Washington never knew dinosaurs existed.

Velociraptors were just the size of a turkey in real life