Thursday, 12 May 2016

Top 10 fun facts about......dinosaurs

Well hello again Gentle Readers.

I was sitting here at the computer trying to think of something to write about when I looked over at Robert and thought....What would he blog about, what does he like?

He likes dinosaurs. So did I when I was his age. Dinosaurs are cool.

So here are our top 10 dinosaur fun facts

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1. Dinosaurs lived on planet Earth for 150 million years. Humans  have only been around for 0.1% of that time.

2. The longest complete dinosaur skeleton ever found was of a 27m long diplodocus.
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3. The smallest known dinosaur was about 10cm tall and weighed less than a chihuahua.

4.If Earth's history was condensed into 24 hours. The dinosaurs would have become extinct at 11.41pm.

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5. Dinosaurs are not technically extinct because all birds evolved from a dinosaur ancestor.
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6. Most dinosaur species were identified after the discovery of just 1 bone.

7. The dinosaur sounds for the movie Jurassic Park were made from recordings of tortoises have sex.
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8. 40% of Americans think humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time.

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9. Villagers in central China used ground up dinosaur bones as a medicine thinking they were from dragons.

10.Some species of herbivorous dinosaurs swallowed rocks to help them digest the plants.




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