11 Cool Facts About Dinosaurs

1. Fred Flintstone would never have had a dinosaur pet, because people had never existed when dinosaurs lived. People came along about 65 million years after the dinosaurs died off.
   
   
2. Most dinosaurs were big, but some were as small as chickens.
   
   
3. A velociraptor's claw was about fifteen inches long, as long as a toddler's arm.
   
   
4. Brachiosarus was probably the largest dinosaur about eighty tons and forty to fifty feet tall.
   
   
5. T.rex was more of a scavenger than a hunter.
   
   
6. Most scientists believe birds are descended from dinosaurs.
   
   
7. Alberta, Canada has rich dinosaur history. More than thirty-five species of dinosaur fossils have been found here.
   
   
8. Dinosaurs flourished for 140 million years, and are the most successful land creatures ever to have lived.
   
   
9. If the history of the Earth were compressed into a single year, dinosaurs would appear in August and die out in November. Humans, who have been around for 2 million years, would appear on the last day of December, late in the evening.
   
   
10. Ankylossarus was like a tank, with lots of thick, bony armor on its body. It also had a nasty weapon- a heavy club on the end of its tail, which it could swing around and smash into an attacking dinosaur.
    
    
11. Triceratops had a four-foot-long horn over each eye and one on its nose.