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A List Of Amazing Dinosaur Facts To Wow Your Friends And Family

There are plenty of amazing dinosaur facts but if you’re like me then you find most dinosaur related facts to be amazing. Today I want to take a look at some incredible facts that you may not have known before today.

Amazing Dinosaur Facts
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Amazing Dinosaur Facts You Need to Know

  • Many dinosaur species would never be able to survive in Earth’s current climate.
  • It took Mamenchisaurus approximately 30 years to grow to it’s adult size.
  • A single T-rex tooth including its root could approximate the length of an iPad.
  • Most dinosaurs walked on their toes
  • Triceratops has the largest head of any known land animal at 10 feet long.
  • Female Tyrannosaurus Rex were larger than males.
  • Some dinosaurs had tails that were over 45 feet long.
  • The jaws of Tyrannosaurus Rex possessed some 10,000 newtons of pressure.
  • Many large sauropods had brittle teeth and swallowed plants whole rather than chewing them.
  • It is estimated that Stegosaurus brain weighed just 2.5 ounces.
  • It is very difficult to determine male from female dinosaur fossils unless the skeleton possess specific indicators of being a fertile female.
  • Approximately 3% of all fossils discovered are from carnivorous dinosaurs.
  • Hadrosaurs had more than 950 teeth!
  • Dinosaurs had replaceable teeth.
  • Dinosaur fossils have even been found in Antarctica.
  • Some of the biggest dinosaur eggs ever discovered were two feet long!
  • Diplodocus had more than 80 vertebrae in it’s tail.
  • Sauropods, while they had small heads, had very large nostrils.
  • Carnotaurus digits on it’s forearms were immobile.
  • Only the two horns on the top of  Triceratops’ skull were made of bone.
  • Tyrannosaurus Rex is the most popular dinosaur, Triceratops is the second most popular.
  • Micropachycephalosaurus has the longest name of any dinosaur.
  • Six states within the United States have a recognized state dinosaur.

What amazing dinosaur facts do you find interesting?

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