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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