Dinosaurs Facts

Scientists can determine the color of some feathered dinosaurs by analyzing fossilized melanosomes—microscopic pigment structures preserved in ancient feathers.

Jellyfish as a species are actually older than dinosaurs and sharks.

The smallest known non-avian dinosaur is Epidexipteryx, measuring just 11 inches long and weighing around 164 grams—about the size of a pigeon.

There is a museum in Spain that shows 2 T.Rex skeletons having sex.

In Colorado, USA, there's a small town called Dinosaur. Some of its street names include Brontosaurus Boulevard, Stegosaurus Freeway, Tyrannosaurus Trail, and Diplodocus Drive.

If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!

The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.

In Jurassic Park, the dinosaurs are only on the screen for 15 minutes. The movie is over two hours long.

Nicolas Cage got into a bidding war with Leonardo DiCaprio over a 67-million-year-old Tarbosaurus skull. Cage won with a bid of $276,000. Seven years later, the skull was identified as having been illegally smuggled from Mongolia. Cage had to return it to the Mongolian government. He got nothing back.

Sue, the T. rex at Chicago's Field Museum, was found because of a flat tire. In 1990, a South Dakota fossil crew drove into town to fix it, but Sue Hendrickson stayed behind and walked her dog to cliffs the crew had not checked. Giant bones jutted from the rock above her, part of one of the most complete T. rex skeletons ever found. The skeleton still carries her name.