my brother likes dinosaurs so please tell me some facts about dinosaur and I know much about dinosaurs but I want to know more and the good and better dinosaur facts I will give thanks but the best dinosaur fact I will mark as the brainliest.
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dinosaur reside earth about millions of years ago
some are herbivores and some are carnivores
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Basic Dinosaur Facts :-
- Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that have lived on Earth for about 245 million years.
- In 1842, the English naturalist Sir Richard Owen coined the term Dinosauria, derived from the Greek deinos, meaning “fearfully great,” and sauros, meaning “lizard.”
- Dinosaur fossils have been found on all seven continents.
- All non-avian dinosaurs went extinct about 66 million years ago.
- There are roughly 700 known species of extinct dinosaurs.
- Modern birds are a kind of dinosaur because they share a common ancestor with non-avian dinosaurs.
Fun facts about dinosaurs :-
- Dinosaurs may have ended up massive, but they all came from eggs.
- It’s believed that birds we see today have evolved from the most interesting dinosaurs.
- It has recently been discovered that some dinosaurs even had feathers.
- The dinosaur with the longest name was the Micropachycephalosaurus, which means tiny, thick headed lizard!
- Most dinosaurs had very small brains and were about as clever as modern reptiles.
- The word dinosaur comes from the Greek language and means ‘terrible lizard’. They were called this because of their huge size, not because they were particularly terrible!
- Dinosaurs were the biggest animals ever to have walked on earth.
- No one is completely sure how dinosaurs became extinct, but most think that it was because of a massive asteroid (huge rock from space) crashing into the earth, or a gigantic volcanic eruption, or both. It’s still a mystery today.
- The heaviest and longest dinosaur ever discovered was the Argentinosaurus, which reached heights of up to 37 metres!
- The first dinosaur to be named was the Megalosaurus in 1824.
- A person who studies dinosaurs is called a palaeontologist.
- Although they’re known for being massive monsters, many dinosaurs were actually smaller than a turkey.
- The very biggest dinosaurs ate only plants. Those that ate meat were usually much smaller.
- One reason that plant-eating dinosaurs grew so big was because they were so greedy. They could eat a huge amount of food very quickly. Sometimes, they swallowed up whole branches without chewing!
- For their own protection, most plant-eating dinosaurs grew natural weapons like spikes and horns.
- Dinosaurs lived on Earth for a far longer time than humans have, with their family trees stretching back many millions of years.
- Unlike most animals alive these days, dinosaurs weren’t warm OR cold blooded. They were somewhere in between.
- Because dinosaurs were so different to anything alive today, no one is quite sure how long they lived for.
- The largest meat-eating dinosaur that’s been discovered was the Spinosaurus, which was around 50 foot long and spent most of its time in water.
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