1.
Most dinosaurs are known from
just a single tooth or bone.
2. One of the smallest dinosaurs discovered had the size of a chicken
and ate insects.
3. The world's oldest known "toilet" was used by dinosaurs
240 million years ago.
4. The dinosaur noises in the "Jurassic Park" movie were made
from recordings of tortoise sex.
5. The smallest known dinosaur was about four inches (10 cm) tall and
weighed less than a chihuahua.
6. De-extinction is scientifically possible. Several viruses have
already been brought back, including the 1918 flu pandemic virus.
7. If Earth's history were condensed into 24 hours, life would've
appeared at 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm and
human history would've begun at 11:58:43pm.
8. 40% of Americans think that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same
time.
9. Despite the title, most of the dinosaurs from "Jurassic
Park" lived during the Cretaceous period.
10. The word "Dinosaur" comes from the ancient Greek and means
"terrible lizard".
11.
There's a limestone cliff with
over 5,000 dinosaur footprints in Bolivia, with many dating back 68 million
years.
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