Some interesting Palaeontology facts..

in #dinosaurs2 months ago

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  • The first dinosaur found by scientists was named Scrotum Humanum. Because the first dinosaur bone found by scientists looked like human testicles.

  • There are two main kinds of dinosaurs, “bird hipped ones” and “lizard hipped ones“ and stupidly actual birds are descended from the lizard hipped ones. More proof that palaeontologists suck at naming things.

  • Dinosaurs are much older than flowers.

  • The end of stegosaurus tails are called thagomizers.

  • Sauropods are mostly a Southern phenomenon. In the North, hadrosaurs were the dominant herbivore.

  • Squid have ammonia in their body that helps them with buoyancy, but makes them not fossilize at all. If there was a squid empire 200 million years ago, it would be really hard to know.

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