Did You Know This About Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals?

Did You Know This About Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals?

To some of us sadly, we only know about dinosaurs from "The Flintstones"

Cartoon show or the movies of "Godzilla" or more realistically

"Jurassic Park". While the latter presented a better depiction of the giant reptiles that walked the planet unchallenged and at the top of the food chain for well over a hundred million years, until dying off about 65 million years ago, there are still some things most people still don't know about them.

1. They died off millions of years before the first human ever existed, so any movie that suggests a man being eaten or chased by a dinosaur is purely a stretch of artistic license.

2. Pterodactyl or Pterosaur or Plesiosaurs (the Loch Ness monster) were not true dinosaurs, if it flew or made its home in the water, chances are it was not a dinosaur.

3. Not much evidence exists that can prove conclusively what color dinosaurs were. (Hollywood again "artistic license")

4. A Dinosaur head was wrongly placed on a museum piece where it and other copies were accepted as the true head at many museums world wide until the mistake was discovered and the heads were replaced after many years.

5. Dinosaurs may have had feathers.

6. Dinosaurs are closely related to birds, chickens, ostriche's and emus. At the colonel's you can see the relatives of dinosaurs on every plate.

7. Mammoths, Mastodons or Saber Tooth cats were not dinosaurs.

8. Some could communicate with others miles away.

9. Dinosaur means, "Terrible Lizard", Triceratops means, "three horned head" and "Tyrannosaurus Rex" (tyrant lizard king)

10. Dinosaurs were the kings of the earth for over 160 million years.

11.The largest dinosaurs weighed over 100 tons or as much as 15 African elephants and were longer than the largest whale and ate a ton of food a day.

12. It is believed that some dinosaurs were very good parents and looked over their young with care from egg to adulthood.

13.The dinosaur age was kicked off by an earth climate of highly oxygenated air, which allowed great size in animals.

The coelacanth, nicknamed "The Dino-Fish", a prehistoric fish was not of course a dinosaur but was thought to exist during that time and saw its extinction at about the same time as the dinosaur. That is until fisherman in Africa boasted of pulling them in with their catches, for as long as they could remember and eating them. After an investigation proved this to be true it was guesstimated that these could have been the most expensive meals ever eaten, since at the time a specimen live or dead was worth millions.

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