1. Dinosaurs roamed the Earth during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous eras between about 230 million and 65 million years ago.
2. Dinosaurs were first discovered in 1822 when Gideon Mantell found some teeth and bones in Sussex. He called it ‘Iguanodon’ (‘iguana tooth’).
3. The word ‘dinosaur’ (meaning ‘terrible lizard’) was coined by Richard Owen in 1841.
4. Dracorex hogwartsia (Hogwarts dragon) was a name given to a newly discovered dinosaur in 2006.
5. Micropachycephalosaurus, a small herbivore from China, is the dinosaur with the longest name.
6. The shortest names are Mei and Kol, two feathered dinosaurs from China and Mongolia.
7. The Borogovia, discovered in 1982, was named for Lewis Carroll’s borogoves in Jabberwocky. (“All mimsy were the borogoves”.)
8. The first dinosaur in space was a Maiasaura fossil taken on a space shuttle mission in 1985.
9. The biggest known dinosaur is Argentinosaurus, which was 98 feet long and about 70 feet tall…
10. …but a vertebra of Amphicoelias found in the US in 1877 suggests it may have been twice as big.
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