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Dinosaurs more fact more fiction


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Dinosaurs was one of the most successful animals in terms of longevity that have ever lived on this earth. They were generally found into many diverse shapes and sizes.The word dinosaurs were design by sir Richard Owen in 1842 to explain these fearful animals. Particularly Megalosaurus, Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus, the only three dinosaurs known at that time. The animals generally we think of as dinosaurs lived during the period of Triassic about 225 million years ago and the end of these creatures about 65 million years ago. But we know somewhere they actually live as the birds.

Misconception about the dinosaurs:

Not everything huge and dead is a dinosaur.
We often see in books, movies and through some others medium authors or directors trying to add such animals for their popular audience. Dianosaurs is a group of aquatic and land animals that includes crocodiles, pterosaurs and birds. Though pterosaurs are lookalike dinosaurs but they are not actual dinosaurs. Even aquatic animals are faraway related to dinosaurs, which include the plesiosauras and ichthyosaurs. Godzilla and rhinoceros is creature and didn’t appear until millions of years after the end of cretaceous period. Some animals are neither a reptile nor a mammal such as Dimetrodon.

All dinosaurs didn’t live at the same time
Different types of dinosaurs lived at different yeras. We have seen Jurassic park, King Kong and some other movies where dinosaurs were described briefly, despite the likeness or copy in the movies no stegosaurus ever saw a tyrannosaurus, because it not appeared on the scene until 80 and same goes for Apatosaurus-its bone were well solid by the time.

Dinosaurs are not died.
Technically, scientists are discovered that dinosaurs are not died. This evidence they have got after the research of dinosaurs skeleton and they are considering that dinosaurs are alive in the form of birds. This shocking information makes a person to imagine a small moving bird as a authentic dinosaurs. So rather than mention to “dinosaurs” and birds as separate, individual groups. It would be best to mention to the traditional, dead animals as “non air borne dinosaurs” and birds as, well, birds or air borne dinosaurs. It would be wrong to say that dinosaurs are completely disappeared. They have left living children’s in the form of small mammals and their friends-just like wild things are still mammals .

How the existence of the dinosaurs were finish.
There are various theories to explain how they became extinct he unusually large extinction at the end of the cretaceous period. There is now global evidence that there is a comet impact or falling star impact may be the reason of extinction. We can see this impact on most of the planets in our solar system. A visible example of this was noticed in 1994, when Jupiter was struck with the falling stars and blasted larger than the earth’s diameter. Other factors may be thorough release of volcanic gases, climate cooling, sea level changes, poison gases from the blasts or changes in the earth’s orbit or magnetic field may have donated to this extinction occurrence.

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Spellbinding Animal Dinosaurs


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Many of us, most children and quite a few adults too, are very curious about dinosaurs. We are always eager to know more about dinosaur’s life that wander about the earth thousands of years ago. Though we have seen plenty of dinosaurs in movies like Jurassic park and its series, in discovery channel, books and also in children’s toys, how much do you know about this interesting animal? Here are some few facts about dinosaurs which you can amaze your friends and family with.

1) It is said that dinosaurs first seen during the period of Triassic may be 284 to 213 million years ago. They lived through the entire Jurassic period and it is considered that the end of the interesting era 65 million years ago.

2) We know about the dinosaurs because some proof has been found. The proof, which are generally found in muddy rocks are bones, teeth, skin, claws, etc. as well as small bit proof, which shows how they lived which include foot prints, nests, tooth marks, dung, hole etc.

3) The earth’s surface slowly moves through a process of “planetary tectonics”. When the dinosaurs first seen, all the earth’s surfaces were joined together in one super-surface and known as “Pangea” and this happened in period of Triassic.

4) All the well known types of dinosaurs drain away at the end of the amazing period. There are many fairy tales means logics why this may have happened on earth. But today the most famous logic is that may be heavenly body hit the earth so that there was not enough food available for eat. Proof for this logic , many people consider that there would be a layer of something may be iridium which would come from heaven. Which has been found around the world and southern Mexico can be an example in this regard.

5) The smallest dinosaur is known as Compsognathus, which lived in Europe and was about chicken size. This is believed to have eaten insects, lizards and small mammal.

6) There are few dinosaurs that are huge in size and they were over 100 feet long. The largest could be some kind of sourwood a four legged plant eating animal with a long neck may be lived in late Jurassic or early era.

7) The word dinosaurs was discovered by Sir Richard Owen, who was also a chairman of the national history museum in London, England. In Greek words “deinos”(terrible) and sauros”(lizard) means terrible lizard.

8) Scientist has been finding dinosaurs organic for hundreds of years, but didn’t know what they were. In 1824 William Buckland was the first scientist who described about the dinosaur.

9) At the same time that dinosaurs rule the land, there were many aquatic reptiles and flying dinosaurs dominated the seas and the sky.

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