sure we think we know dinosaurs but it
seems we’ve actually been playing a game
of broken telephone over the past
sixty-six million years welcome to
watchmojo.com one by one in today’s
installment we’re looking at the
perceived truths of dinosaurs that just
don’t line up with the facts easy is it
boy myth number five
dinosaurs always lived in warm climates
often in pop culture dinosaurs appear in
a tropical climate full of vibrant
colors however during their 160 million
year existence the slow onset of climate
change meant that dinosaurs could adapt
to much cooler temperatures in turn some
theorize that the sex of offspring may
have been determined by the temperature
of the nest which meant that a changing
climate led to a lack of procreation and
while experts continue to debate exactly
how the dinosaurs became extinct we do
know that polar dinosaurs existed in the
High Arctic Alaska and even Antarctica
where they survive for weeks at a time
in pure darkness though the visual
nature of such a climate doesn’t quite
make for a jolly Hollywood flick it’s a
sad reality that the polar dinosaurs
knew all too well
those guys were extinct well then that
is one angry fossil myth number four the
Lhasa Raptors were these things
Velociraptor yes good shape too
five six feet high I’m guessing nine
feet long so you’ve seen Jurassic Park
and you think you know the physical
makeup of a velociraptor well in reality
there were less man-sized super-clever
murder monsters and more like plump
little chickens in both the book and
movie adaptation the Raptors of Jurassic
Park are based on the Deinonychus which
is slightly older and much bigger and
you may be surprised to learn that
velociraptors only weight about 30
pounds give or take in all their
feathered glory that doesn’t look very
scary
Pistor yeah more like a 6-foot turkey
these dinosaurs were short and stout
which meant their small legs probably
didn’t make them all that fast either
alas the velociraptors legacy lives on
in cinema as the wildly inaccurate
representation continues
myth number three the Tyrannosaurus Rex
had weak arms why aren’t you seizing the
boy in 1905 the paleontologist Henry
Fairfield Osborn theorized that the
t-rex arms functioned as a grasping form
in copulation and the joke’s have
evolved ever since all the dinosaurs
feared the t-rex while the diminutive
forearms of the Tyrannosaurus Rex can’t
be ignored and scholars continue to muse
over their actual purpose they were in
fact quite powerful it’s actually been
estimated that each muscular arm could
lift over 400 pounds depictions of T
Rex’s would have us believe that they
flail puny arms around while roaming
about but in actuality these limbs were
around three feet long additionally the
t-rex reached heights of 40 feet and
weighed approximately seven to ten tons
and whether they were procreating or
trying to balance themselves after a
fall the supposedly weak arms provided
major assistance
myth number two an asteroid killed all
the dinosaurs in popular mythology
people often refer to an asteroid that
killed the dinosaurs and while the
impact alone did signal an impending
extinction the preceding shift in
climate conditions led to a decline long
before the Yucatan Peninsula blast for
one the continental drift produced
cooler temperatures over millions of
years what killed the dinosaurs is age
and when combined with lower sea levels
the once adaptable habitats transformed
into bleak living conditions for the
dinosaurs not to mention the devastating
effects of volcanic eruptions and
earthquakes so while it’s true that a
massive asteroid must have killed every
dinosaur in close proximity 66 million
years ago along with nearly every mammal
species on the planet
it didn’t immediately kill all dinosaurs
but rather made the already threatening
conditions even more difficult for
sustain life myth number one all
dinosaurs died out evolution like the
dinosaur so after that nasty little
asteroid the dinosaurs were all gone
Tata bye bye right I went to public
school in Mississippi they told us
dinosaurs went extinct because of
asteroid turn them gay well of course
the non-avian forms became extinct
millions upon millions of years ago but
in the great outdoors the dinosaurs live
on soda
birds actually evolved from smaller
dinosaurs called theropods during the
Mesozoic era which means they’re
relatives of both the t-rex and
velociraptor surely it can be exciting
to study the monstrous skeletal remains
of dinosaurs but the fact remains that
nature and evolution has left us with
plenty to appreciate in its natural form
even crocodiles have been around for 180
million years and they too are living
descendants of the dinosaurs preserving
the glorious Dino legacy suddenly I feel
a bit foolish here so how many of these
myths did you believe we don’t know for
sure here’s what Google searches are
asking about dinosaurs get a dinosaur
would be spirit animal
dinosaurs have ears what kind of
dinosaur is Barney for more Jurassic
toptenz
and plump little top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
seems we’ve actually been playing a game
of broken telephone over the past
sixty-six million years welcome to
watchmojo.com one by one in today’s
installment we’re looking at the
perceived truths of dinosaurs that just
don’t line up with the facts easy is it
boy myth number five
dinosaurs always lived in warm climates
often in pop culture dinosaurs appear in
a tropical climate full of vibrant
colors however during their 160 million
year existence the slow onset of climate
change meant that dinosaurs could adapt
to much cooler temperatures in turn some
theorize that the sex of offspring may
have been determined by the temperature
of the nest which meant that a changing
climate led to a lack of procreation and
while experts continue to debate exactly
how the dinosaurs became extinct we do
know that polar dinosaurs existed in the
High Arctic Alaska and even Antarctica
where they survive for weeks at a time
in pure darkness though the visual
nature of such a climate doesn’t quite
make for a jolly Hollywood flick it’s a
sad reality that the polar dinosaurs
knew all too well
those guys were extinct well then that
is one angry fossil myth number four the
Lhasa Raptors were these things
Velociraptor yes good shape too
five six feet high I’m guessing nine
feet long so you’ve seen Jurassic Park
and you think you know the physical
makeup of a velociraptor well in reality
there were less man-sized super-clever
murder monsters and more like plump
little chickens in both the book and
movie adaptation the Raptors of Jurassic
Park are based on the Deinonychus which
is slightly older and much bigger and
you may be surprised to learn that
velociraptors only weight about 30
pounds give or take in all their
feathered glory that doesn’t look very
scary
Pistor yeah more like a 6-foot turkey
these dinosaurs were short and stout
which meant their small legs probably
didn’t make them all that fast either
alas the velociraptors legacy lives on
in cinema as the wildly inaccurate
representation continues
myth number three the Tyrannosaurus Rex
had weak arms why aren’t you seizing the
boy in 1905 the paleontologist Henry
Fairfield Osborn theorized that the
t-rex arms functioned as a grasping form
in copulation and the joke’s have
evolved ever since all the dinosaurs
feared the t-rex while the diminutive
forearms of the Tyrannosaurus Rex can’t
be ignored and scholars continue to muse
over their actual purpose they were in
fact quite powerful it’s actually been
estimated that each muscular arm could
lift over 400 pounds depictions of T
Rex’s would have us believe that they
flail puny arms around while roaming
about but in actuality these limbs were
around three feet long additionally the
t-rex reached heights of 40 feet and
weighed approximately seven to ten tons
and whether they were procreating or
trying to balance themselves after a
fall the supposedly weak arms provided
major assistance
myth number two an asteroid killed all
the dinosaurs in popular mythology
people often refer to an asteroid that
killed the dinosaurs and while the
impact alone did signal an impending
extinction the preceding shift in
climate conditions led to a decline long
before the Yucatan Peninsula blast for
one the continental drift produced
cooler temperatures over millions of
years what killed the dinosaurs is age
and when combined with lower sea levels
the once adaptable habitats transformed
into bleak living conditions for the
dinosaurs not to mention the devastating
effects of volcanic eruptions and
earthquakes so while it’s true that a
massive asteroid must have killed every
dinosaur in close proximity 66 million
years ago along with nearly every mammal
species on the planet
it didn’t immediately kill all dinosaurs
but rather made the already threatening
conditions even more difficult for
sustain life myth number one all
dinosaurs died out evolution like the
dinosaur so after that nasty little
asteroid the dinosaurs were all gone
Tata bye bye right I went to public
school in Mississippi they told us
dinosaurs went extinct because of
asteroid turn them gay well of course
the non-avian forms became extinct
millions upon millions of years ago but
in the great outdoors the dinosaurs live
on soda
birds actually evolved from smaller
dinosaurs called theropods during the
Mesozoic era which means they’re
relatives of both the t-rex and
velociraptor surely it can be exciting
to study the monstrous skeletal remains
of dinosaurs but the fact remains that
nature and evolution has left us with
plenty to appreciate in its natural form
even crocodiles have been around for 180
million years and they too are living
descendants of the dinosaurs preserving
the glorious Dino legacy suddenly I feel
a bit foolish here so how many of these
myths did you believe we don’t know for
sure here’s what Google searches are
asking about dinosaurs get a dinosaur
would be spirit animal
dinosaurs have ears what kind of
dinosaur is Barney for more Jurassic
toptenz
and plump little top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
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