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 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.