MYTHS About Dinosaurs You PROBABLY Still Believe!

Check out these myths about dinosaurs you probably still believe! From the largest and most dangerous dinosaurs like tyrannosaurus rex and brontosaurus to smaller ones like velociraptors, here are the top 10 myths about dinos debunked!

10. All Dinosaurs Were Huge!
Probably because of Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, and other pop-culture representations of dinosaurs, we tend to only imagine dinosaurs as being huge animals. Of course this is partially true, because there were dinosaurs which were extremely big. One of the most famous examples is definitely the Tyrannosaurus Rex, one of the biggest carnivores of all time, with a weight of over five tons and a length of 12 meters. And the interesting thing is that the T-Rex wasn’t the biggest dinosaur of them all. The Argentinosaurus was probably 30 meters long, and weighed around 80 tons! These were some massive animals.
But on the other hand, there were numerous species of really small dinosaurs. The Protoceratops wasn’t much bigger than your average sheep, and the Velociraptor was even smaller – the size of a German Shepard. What you see in the movie Jurassic Park is not its original size, by the way! It’s hard to say exactly what the smallest dinosaur was, but one of the most famous was the Compsognathus, which means "pretty jaw". It was just a little bit larger than a chicken and weighed about 2.5 kg (about 6.5 lb). Evolutionary biologists argue that some dinosaurs like theropods, never became extinct and instead evolved into our modern day birds. So with that reasoning, the smallest theropod dinosaur to have ever lived would be the hummingbird!

9. Dinosaurs Only Lived in Warm Climates
When the dinosaur craze came in the late 19th century, the image of these prehistoric animals was so vivid that sketch artists and writers immediately associated them with exotic locations, such as rainforests. But this is just one side of the coin.
Real dinosaurs didn’t only live in jungles and swampy grounds. Many of them did, but many of them also inhabited places with harsh climates. Believe it or not, there were even dinosaurs that lived in the snow! But we usually don’t see any images of them in the snow at all! Sites from the late Cretaceous period show us that many dinosaur species lived in the arctic. In a remote part of Alaska, scientists found the remains of a dinosaur they named- ok, I am going to try to say this- Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis. I bet they had fun naming that one!! In those days, the climate of Alaska was much warmer, but there were many cold month with low temperatures. Also, you have the famous Yutyrannus – a dinosaur species related to the T-Rex. This dinosaur had long feathers and lived in areas where the average temperature was about 10 degrees Celsius, and the low temperature reaching the freezing point. So, contrary to popular belief, many dinosaurs might have been quite chilly!

8. All Dinosaur Species Had Scales
When people first discovered dinosaurs, they immediately linked them to crocodiles, lizards, and other reptiles. Because of this, it was generally thought that dinosaurs as an animal species had scales.
Mind you, this is true to some degree. Dinosaurs such as sauropods, and many types of horned and armored dinosaurs – definitely had scales, but this cannot go for all dinosaur species. Nevertheless, for centuries – it was believed that all dinosaurs had scales, and this belief lasted until the 1970s. It was then that scientists presumed that some dinosaurs could have had feathers, instead of scales. Scientists have found a link between birds and dinosaurs, leading them to assume that, if birds are indeed descendants of some dinosaur species – dinosaurs could have of course, had feathers. All of this was just a matter of speculation – until 1997, when the Sinosauropteryx (sino-sor-op-terix) was discovered. This was a small type of carnivorous dinosaur, but apparently – it didn’t have scales at all. In fact, the Sinosauropteryx was covered in a bunch of feathers. Since the discovery of this dinosaur, there have been many other discoveries of “feathery” dinosaurs, such as heterodontosaurus. But another interesting discovery showed us that, quite possibly, even the family of Tyrannosauridae was covered in feathers. Which means that our dear friend T-Rex might have had feathers - not scales. That would still be awesome!!

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[own]

The most accurate sound scientists think a T-rex makes is actually much scarier than a roar. It's a very loud, very low booming sound that you could feel from vibration.

[Despond]

I would love to time travel with the restriction of only able to view, just to see the time of the dinosaurs.

[dylanhurley]

Pretty much everyone knows these especially people with a passion for dinosaurs.

[StupidDodo]

I'm going to study enough to become a paleontologist now!

[TroodonJesus]

T rex may have had feathers but not covering the entire body. Maybe it would have a little bit of dino fuzz or quils around the head, neck, and back

[mpghiscool]

Actually, we can scientifically get pretty close to what they sounded like. You are right that rex's did make 0 roars but a load vibration sound that kinda eco located objects near them and breath from animals. The rex did not roar but made a very low pitch heavy sound that struck fear in dinosaurs and when they are scared and they breath fast or try to run they can hear them.

[Soilfood]

"...live with many animals that descended from dinosaurs, such as reptiles and birds..."
Non-avian reptiles did not descend from dinosaurs. The squamates(Lizards, snakes, amphisbaenians), Anapsids (shelled reptiles), Rhynchocephalia (Tuatara) and Crocodilia (...) were all distinct by the time the Dinosaurs popped up.

"Lizards and other reptiles... thigh bones are practically parallel to the ground, forcing them to move side to side" - mostly yes, but it would have been better to stick with lizards; crocodiles - being more closely related to dinosaurs than they are to any non-avian reptiles around today - have a hip structure that allows them to move either with their legs to the side or, especially in species like the Australian Freshwater crocodile, to gallop (which is otherwise a gait seen only in mammals).

[jeff]

Looking at some of these comments I realized how the school systems have failed

[peeblekitty]

"All dinos had scales"
"Could have feathers instead of scales"
*ahem*
You've seen birds right? You see how they have scales AND feathers, right?
It's not like it can only be one or the other.

[classicgalactica]

Impressions of T-Rex skin have been found and are pebbly in appearance, with no trace of feathers. Large animals today are usually devoid of hair as they would overheat too quickly with a fur covering, and T-Rex was also likely devoid of feathers for the same reason.

[amarabdelgadder]

#6: Dinosaurs lived with humans
Me: EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THIS BY

[ZOSO]

Wow, I love hearing a Youtube voiceover who can really read! I mean it, her pronunciation is amazing, her emphases are all in the right places. and she's not forcing enthusiasm!

[Scimetar]

On the dinosaurs and humans coexisting thing, it's absolutely true if you consider all birds as dinosaurs.

[ghostzisanarg]

This video's comment section is about as toxic as Botulinum.

[Koraxus]

At point 6 (which is 4 from first to last in the video) you made a mistake. None of the modern non-avian reptiles descend from dinosaurs. Only birds.

[charliec]

So basically the T-Rex was a giant horrifying chicken

[SailorBarsoom]

Most of these are not lies, but rather early misunderstandings. Some of the things we are sure of today will turn out to be wrong, but that doesn't make today's paleontologists liars.

I do wish that recent depictions of dinos would include feathers and such.

[adiowl]

Actually, I read an article recently where they’ve actually found a dinosaur vocalization box (I can’t remember what type) and they made sounds like chickens and ducks (which would be pretty funny if dinosaurs sounded like that in Jurassic park)

[raphaelrae]

One lie that most people ABSOLUTELY still believe is that they went extinct.

[jorgemedina]

This video spreads misinformation, here's the truth:
Argentinosaurus was 40 meters long

Birds ARE known to be dinosaurs

"We don't see dinosaurs in the snow" search for Trodon or Cryolophosaurus on google

ALL dinosaurs had some form of scales, including therapods, just that some of them have feathers too

As of 2017 Tyranosaurus rex has been known not only to have feathers, but to have some scales that come from feathers.

You CAN reproduce the sounds hadrosaurs made, like Parasaurolophus or Corythosaurus

Humans and dinosaurs COEXISTED, you should've said non-avian dinosaurs aka everything but birds

REPTILES DON'T COME FROM F*CKING DINOSAURS, LIKE, COME ON!