GIGANTIC FACTS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT DINOSAURS
Added on: 14th Jul 2016
SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THAT SOME DINOSAURS
WERE COLD-BLOODED AND SOME WARM-BLOODED,
WHILE THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN OTHERS THAT
WERE NOT FULLY ONE OR THE OTHER. THEY
SPECULATE THAT SMALL MEAT EATERS MAY HAVE
BEEN WARM-BLOODED WHILE PLANT EATERS THAT
WERE NOT AS ACTIVE WERE PROBABLY
COLD-BLOODED
EXPLORER ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS FOUND THE
FIRST DINOSAUR NEST KNOWN TO SCIENCE IN 1923
IN THE GOBI DESERT IN MONGOLIA. BEFORE HE FOUND
THE NEST, SCIENTISTS WERE UNSURE HOW
DINOSAURS WERE BORN
EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE A FEW THEORIES ABOUT
THE DINOSAURS’ EXTINCTION THE MOST
ACCURATE APPEARS TO BE THE ONE CONCERNING
A MASSIVE METEORITE HITTING THE YUCATAN
PENINSULA IN MEXICO 65.5 MILLION YEARS AGO.
THE 112-MILE-WIDE CRATER WAS CAUSED BY A ROCK
SIX MILES IN DIAMETER. IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE
ONLY ANIMALS TO SURVIVE THIS MASSIVE
DESTRUCTION WERE SHARKS, JELLYFISH FISH,
SCORPIONS, BIRDS, INSECTS, SNAKES, TURTLES,
LIZARDS, AND CROCODILES
THE MASS EXTINCTION OF THE DINOSAURS AND OTHER
LAND ANIMALS THAT FOLLOWED AFTER THE
COLLISION IS KNOWN AS THE CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY
EXTINCTION EVENT, OR THE K-T EVENT. SCIENTISTS
HAVE VARIOUS THEORIES ABOUT THE EXTINCTION
WITH THE MOST POPULAR SUGGESTING THAT SMALL
MAMMALS ATE DINOSAUR EGGS UNTIL THE
POPULATION BECAME UNSUSTAINABLE
LIKE BIRDS AND REPTILES TODAY, DINOSAURS BUILT
NESTS AND LAID EGGS. SOME EVEN FED AND
PROTECTED THEIR BABIES
MODERN BIRDS HAVE A SINGLE BODY OPENING FOR
URINATION, DEFECATION, AND REPRODUCTION:
A CLOACA (LATIN FOR “SEWER”). PALAEONTOLOGISTS
BELIEVE THAT DINOSAURS WERE SIMILARLY
DESIGNED AND REPRODUCED BY PRESSING THEIR
CLOACA’S TOGETHER IN A “CLOACAL KISS.”
THIS IS THE REASON WHY SOME SCIENTISTS BELIEVE
THAT BIRDS ARE A SURVIVING GENETICALLY MODIFIED
(LIKE MUTANTS IN X-MEN) SPECIES OF DINOSAURS
AND THUS DINOSAURS ARE NOT ACTUALLY EXTINCT
THE EARLIEST NAMED DINOSAUR FOUND SO FAR
IS THE EORAPTOR, WHICH MEANS “DAWN STEALER.”
IT WAS NAMED THIS BECAUSE IT LIVED AT THE
DAWN OF THE DINOSAUR AGE. IT WAS A MEAT EATER
ABOUT THE SIZE OF A GERMAN SHEPHERD
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