Dinosaurs, what you need to know!

DINOSAURS, WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW!

Dinosaurs, sounds horrific ain't it? To vast readers, it might sound familiar but right now there's a lot of weird, amazing,cool and astonishing stuffs you probably don't know about them.

ABOUT THEM

Dinosaurs means "terrible lizard", and many of them were ferocious  meat-eaters, well not all of them. They belonged to a group called " theropods". Like I said, not all Dinosaurs are meat-eaters, most Dinosaurs ate plants. The biggest of the plant eaters were the gentle giants called "sauropods". Other plant eaters included the duck-billed Dinosaurs (hadrosaurs); horned Dinosaurs (ceratopsians); armored dinosaurs (ankylosaurs) and their relatives the stegosaurs; and many more. All of them were ancient relatives of crocodiles and other reptiles that live in the world today.

HOW DO WE KNOW THEY WERE REAL?

The first dinosaurs that we know about lived almost 225 million years ago. The last ones died about 65 million years ago. Between those two times hundreds of different kinds of dinosaurs appeared on earth. Nobody ever saw a live dinosaur. How then do we know they were real? Their bones tell us. When a dinosaur died, mud and blowing sand often covered its body. Its flesh decayed, and after a long time, the buried bones became a hard as stone. These stony pieces of dinosaurs are called "fossils". Buried dinosaur eggs and even dinosaur footprints made in mud or sand became fossils too. 
Okay so now you got that stuck in your head.

DIPLODOCUS
Sometimes the people who hunt for dinosaur bones find a whole skeleton with all the bones joined together. But usually the bones are all mixed up. Then someone has to figure out how to put the skeleton together. That isn't always easy, in fact, its a pain in d ass. When the bones of a dinosaur called Diplodocus were discovered, some people thought they belonged to a giant creeping lizard. Yet scientists kept studying the bones. Finally, they could tell how Diplodocus really looked when it was alive.
Diplodocus and its cousin Apatosaurus belonged to the group of dinosaurs that had very long necks. They were called Sauropods. From the top of it's head to the tip of its tail, Diplodocus was about 90 feet long. That is almost as long as three school buses. Believe me friends, that's damn long, picture that in mind. Diplodocus had the longest of all dinosaur tails.

Diplodocus and the other sauropods had very small brains. DID THIS MEAN THEY WERE STUPID? People used to think so. But now, scientists say that sauropods were smart enough to get along very well in the world as it was millions of years ago.

APATOSAURUS

Apatosaurus may have had a shorter tail than Diplodocus, but its body was twice as heavy. In fact, Apatosaurus used to be called Brontosaurus, which means "thunder lizard", because of the noise its heavy feet must have made while it walked.

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