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TIL that millions of years ago Antarctica was once a rainforest that dinosaurs inhabited

by whatilearned May 9, 2022, 6:43 pm

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TIL analysis of fish caught in giant water surges occurring immediately following the meteorite impact which caused the KPG extinction event, ending non-avian dinosaurs, show this may have happened in boreal spring; austral autumn—contributing to the death of species coming out of hibernation

by whatilearned April 26, 2022, 6:42 pm

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TIL Dinasours have lived in another part of the galaxy. Although this news is quite old, I learned today that dinosaurs wouldn’t have even seen the stars that we see today in the sky because they didn’t exist until millions of years after the extinction event.

by whatilearned April 22, 2022, 2:46 pm

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TIL it was only 200 years ago Humans discovered Dinosaurs.

by whatilearned April 7, 2022, 6:42 pm

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TIL that dinosaur-era mammals were not just small, unremarkable insectivores, but were ecologically diverse and experimenting in gliding, swimming, burrowing, and climbing. Dinosaurs were not the only cool kids at the time!

by whatilearned April 3, 2022, 4:12 pm

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TIL the Royal Canadian Mint was making limited silver coins in the shapes of dinosaurs

by whatilearned March 17, 2022, 11:10 am

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TIL: Fossil fuels such as oil do not come from dinosaurs

by whatilearned March 11, 2022, 3:58 pm

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What movie would 10x better if you added dinosaurs?

by QuestionGuy March 7, 2022, 8:25 pm

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TIL of the Hell Creek Formation, a band of 66-million-year-old rocks that records the last million years of the dinosaurs’ reign and is found in parts of Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota and North Dakota. It’s where the T Rex was discovered in 1902

by whatilearned March 1, 2022, 2:36 am

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TIL that the time period in which dinosaurs lived is so vast, there were dinosaur fossils when dinosaurs were still alive.

by whatilearned February 14, 2022, 4:36 pm

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TIL Tim Burton was originally working on a movie based on the Dinosaurs Attack! trading cards, but switched to Mars Attacks! after the release of Jurassic Park.

by whatilearned February 8, 2022, 3:33 am

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TIL Pterodactyls are not dinosaurs. They are extinct reptiles.

by whatilearned January 28, 2022, 2:36 am

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