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A: y-tinction, of course! Q: What comes after Y-tinction? A: Z-end! |
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Q: What do you call a dinosaur that smashes everything in its path? A: Tyrannosaurus wrecks! Q: What kind of dinosaur can you ride in a rodeo? A: A Bronco-saurus! Q: What was T. rex's favorite number? A: Eight! (ate) Q: Why are there old dinosaur bones in the museum? A: Because they can't afford new ones! Q: What do you get when you cross a dinosaur with fireworks? A: DINOMITE! |
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Q: When can three giant dinosaurs get under an umbrella and not get wet? A: When it's not raining! Q: What's as big as a dinosaur but weighs nothing? A: Her shadow! Q: What do you get if you cross a pig with a dinosaur? A: Jurassic Pork! Q: How do you know if there's a dinosaur in your refrigerator? A: Look for footprints in the pizza! Q: What type of tool does a prehistoric reptile carpenter use? A: A dino-saw! Q: Why did the Apatosaurus devour the factory? A: Because she was a plant eater! Q: How much fur can you get from a dinosaur? A: As fur as you can get! |
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The largest complete dinosaur we know of was Brachiosaurus ("arm lizard"); it reached 23 m in length and 12 m in height (about the length of two large school buses and the height of a four-story building). Fragmentary leg bones and vertebrae of even larger dinosaur species are known, but these skeletal remains are too incomplete to determine their exact size. Several of these (Argentinasaurus and Amphicoelias) might have been one and a half to two times larger than Brachiosaurus. The smallest dinosaurs were just slightly larger than a chicken; Compsognathus ("pretty jaw") was 1 m (3 ft) long and probably weighed about 2.5 kg (about 6.5 lb). These three dinosaur types all lived during the Jurassic Period. |
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Q: What kind of materials do dinosaurs use for the floor of their homes? A: Rep Tiles Q: How do you ask a dinosaur to lunch? A: Tea Rex? Q: Why didn't the T-rex skeleton attack the museum visitors? A: Because she had no guts! Q: Why did the dinosaur cross the road? A: The chicken hadn't evolved yet! Q: Which dinosaur slept all day? A: The dino-snore! Q: What do you call Tyrannosaurus rex when it wears a cowboy hat and boots? A: Tyrannosaurus tex! Q: What do you call a dinosaur who is elected to Congress? A: Rep. Tile! |
| Weight | Length | Height | |
| Blue Whale | 120 tons | 25 m (80 ft) | 5 m (17 ft) |
| Brachiosaurus | 80 tons | 23 m (77 ft) | 12 m (40 ft) |
| Mammoth | 9 tons | 7 m (23 ft) | 4.5 m (15 ft) |
| African Elephant | 6 tons | 6 m (20 ft) | 3 m (10 feet) |
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Q: What family does Maiasaur belong to? A: I don't think any families in our neighborhood have one! Q: What do you call a dinosaur who is elected to Congress? A: Rep. Tile! Q: How would you feel if you saw a dinosaur in your backyard? A: Very old! Q: How do dinosaurs pass exams? A: With extinction! Q: What do you call a cowboy dinosaur? A: Tyrannosaurus Tex! Q: Why did the dinosaur cross the road? A: Because chickens were not invented yet. Q: Why did the dinosaur cross the road? A: Because he wanted to go to the museum. |
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Q: What kind of rock wasn't around during the age of dinosaurs? A: Rock & Roll. Q: What's the difference between dinosaurs and dragons? A: Dinosaurs are still too young too smoke. Q: What is a dinosaur that does rap? A. A rap-tor. Q: How do you clone a dinosaur? A: Use a Photocopysaurus. Q: What do you call a dinosaur's milkshake? A: A dinoshake! Q: What did the egg say to the dinosaur? A: You're egg-stinct. Q: What do dinosaurs say when they bump into each other? A: Small world, isn’t it? |
The fact that dinosaurs became extinct might suggest they had some "Achilles' heel" which led to their downfall. But it seems it was just bad luck and they weren't alone. At the end of the Cretaceous period all the dinosaur families, together with marine reptiles, and as well as about 75 percent of all other species on earth became extinct. There are numerous theories for this great extinction, but at present only three are taken seriously: 1. Fossil evidence shows that there was a gradual decline in the abundance and variety of dinosaurs during the last 10 million years of the Cretaceous period. This may have been because the climate became much cooler and drier. 2. In India, huge volcanic eruptions unleashed enormous quantities of lava, volcanic ash and poisonous gas which would have caused widespread climatic change. 3. At about the same time a large asteroid struck the Earth forming a 240 kilometer crater in what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. This impact would have caused - among other disasters - several extremely cold months or years because of dust in the atmosphere. This theory was proposed in 1980 by physicist Luis Alvarez and his son Walter Alvarez, a geologist. here and here |
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Q: Who started the dinosaur jokes? A: That’s what the dinosaurs would like to know. Q: What do you get when a dinosaur walks through the strawberry patch? A: Strawberry jam! Q: Where was the dinosaur when the sun went down? A: In the dark! Q: What did the dinosaur say when he saw the volcano explode? A: What a lava-ly day! Q: What was the most flexible dinosaur? A: Tyrannosaurus Flex! Q: What was the wordiest dinosaur that ever existed? A: Thesaurus! Q: Why didn't the T-rex skeleton attack the museum visitors? A: Because she had no guts! Talking to a group of primary school teachers about geology, and how to introduce it to the young, the inevitable discussion on dinosaurs...all kids are fascinated about dinosaurs. So I asked the teachers, if so many kids were interested in dinosaurs, why wouldn't be there more geologists... The answer...most kids grow up! |
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