10 Dinosaur MYTHS That Won’t Go EXTINCT

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Dinosaurs have captured our imagination since their remains were first discovered and identified back in 1864, and scientists have spent the last 200 years trying to fully understand these creatures who once ruled the Earth. But it seems like new discoveries change the dinosaur game every few decades, and we’re forced to redraw our ideas about dinosaurs once again. Even so, there are many dinosaur myths that continue to roam around despite these new discoveries, and it’s about time for these myths and misconceptions to go extinct once and for all.
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10. Tyrannosaurus Rex Had Wimpy Arms
9. Just About Every Ancient Animal is A Dinosaur
8. Dinosaurs Dragged Their Tails
7. Dinosaurs Were Bad Parents
6. Dinosaurs Were the First Reptiles to Rule the Earth
5. Dinosaurs Terrorized Mammals and Other Non-Dinosaurs
4. The Pterodactyl and the Archaeoraptor Existed (At Least As You Know Them)
3. Dinosaurs Died Out Because They Failed to Successfully Evolve
2. An Asteroid Impact Alone Killed the Dinosaurs
1. Dinosaurs All Existed at the Same Time
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[@themrmortonman]

Pelycosaurs were synapsids and not related to dinosaurs at all.

[@RichardRenes]

we, humans, are more closely related to pelycosaurs than any true dinosaur ever was. It's pretty much #9 all over :P Besides: Pelycosaurs are early Permian animals so that pushes parental care back quite considerably

[@zennkidu]

Ironic that while he was discussing people lumping all ancient life as dinosaurs he presents a picture of a synapsid. Since the writer identified it as a pelycosaur, it’s an egregious error.

[@andrewstrongman305]

WTF? T-rex and triceratops were both late Cretaceous. Apatosaurs and allosaurs were Jurassic. As with Stegosaurus. Far from "co-existing", T-rex and triceratops lived about 100 million years after the end of the Jurassic.

[@KelticTim]

Shhhhh

[@solojones1138]

Actually, it was determined several years ago that the Brontosaurus actually is a separate species, after it was thought for decades that this was a mistake.

[@Speculativedude]

Yeah, he mentions them bringing it up in a previous video. but fails to mention that they got raked over the coals for not doing the research to learn that. The comment section was full of people getting mad about them giving bad information about that one.

[@starrywizdom]

"Thunder lizard, Brontosaurus is back! He's not Apatosaurus, & that's a fact His neck's a little longer & a little less wide Feel the ground shake as he walks side to side" --Howdytoons

[@SerbonOfficial]

It turns out that brontosaurus was “confirmed” as a dinosaur in 2015

[@hankblaster]

After watching this AND reading some of the comments, I don't feel so bad about almost flunking science

[@EmmaSpAce111]

2:44 shows a dimetredon and not a dinosaur. they actually closer to mammals.

[@p3dro187]

It isnt even classified as a reptile

[@starrywizdom]

The Pelycosaur, aka Dimetrodon, is a non-mammalian synapsid. Mammals are also synapsids, but reptiles & dinosaurs are diapsids. Pelycosaur was no more a dinosaur than Simon is.

[@EmmaSpAce111]

@@starrywizdom exactly.

[@jemDarpole]

pelycosaurs were not dinosaurs they are closer related to mammals just fyi

[@jemDarpole]

it really is. you would think they would do some research. its not hard guys. google

[@ThePro-WrestlingTrueCrime]

People should watch the PBS Kids show The Dinosaur Train. This may sound silly but I learned a lot from it as did my son when he was younger. (The time traveling train is obviously not real but it helps the Cretaceous Pteranadon family meet other dinosaurs from different time periods)

[@Kynorth1341]

Great advice, the host and creator is a talented paleontologist

[@dafttool]

Your number One should’ve been the myth that dinosaurs were cold-blooded. It is fairly well understood now that their metabolisms were closer to active birds than to sluggish reptiles. Adjacent to that myth, there’s the myth that it would take a great number of years to reach such massive sizes, but their bones show that they got large & matured very quickly, also like birds.

[@lilaclizard4504]

yeh, the way he kept making a point of calling them "reptiles" I thought for sure his number 1 was going to be "dinosaurs are NOT reptiles"

[@jacobsalomon5820]

Why is it still assumed that the dinosaurs were reptiles? Or even cold-blooded?

[@treblehead79]

Also you showed a brachiosaur when talking about Apatosaurus.

[@dilynazzopardi2598]

And recently, as in like 2 or 3 years ago, brontosaurus was reclassified as a separate dinosaur from apatosaurus. Also, technically dinosaurs branch of from reptiles making them not true reptiles.

[@NetAndyCz]

technically birds are reptiles just like dinosaurs. Crocodile is more closely related to chicken than to snake or lizard.

[@Trimondius]

Birds are not reptiles you idiot and neither were the dinosaurs.And to say a chicken is more closely related to a crocodile is even stupider.Birds evolved from ancestors closely related to Dromaeosauridae family,they are also warm blooded and some speculate that even the dinosaurs were since we have proof of dinosaurs who lived in colder regions. Crocodiles evolved separately from dinosaurs,with their common archosaurian ancestor dating somewhere from the middle of the Triassic if not earlier.Theyre distantly related,the only thing they have in common being the clade theyre part of.

[@firstcynic92]

Trimondius when does one species stop being representative of every one that came before it? Answer: they never do that. Birds are dinosaurs. Humans are monkeys. And, in a really weird way, whales are fish (as well as being mammals).

[@NetAndyCz]

Trimondius lol, me idiot with degree in biology;) Seriously check the new research that actually takes into account the DNA evidence. And First Cynic some fish are more closely related to us than they are to other fish so technically we all are fish.

[@josephkania642]

Why does he identify a therapsid as a dinosaur?

[@StefanVeenstra]

#1 Makes the plot of Jurassic Park even more brilliant. It's exactly what dr. Alan Grant said, they were taking creatures that never co-existed back in an era they never roamed around.

[@13thmistral]

2:46 ?!!! That animal didn't even live anymore when dinosaurs roamed the earth !

[@Weirdoid]

Pelycosaurs like that dimetrodon are not dinosaurs. You should have listened to your previous comment.

[@kenhelmers2603]

Cool info :) Thanks!

[@herashr]

Love this video; officially subscribing!

[@Weirdoid]

T-Rex and Triceratops did NOT live alongside Allosaurus and Apatosaurus!

[@ddgddg7918]

Bingo!

[@Cobrawolf]

there was only one type of Allosaur in the Cretaceous and it lived in Australia and the Antarctic, but for the most part, Allosaurus was Jurassic.

[@shebbs1]

You need to listen more closely as this point was well covered.

[@12799MaDeuce]

You sound unusually bassy today lol

[@SilentReflection101]

This video was "Spared no expense."

[@256NatLiz]

From number 7: Well, seeing as dinosaurs seem to be more related to birds and most birds care for their young, it's not all that surprising if dinosaurs did indeed do the same.

[@mattcousino6091]

Birds are dinosaurs.

[@256NatLiz]

@@mattcousino6091 Birds are descendants of dinosaurs, much like domesticated dogs are descendants of wolves. But your point is still valid. And there should be more drawings of dinos with feathers.

[@gesundeshalbwissen]

Well, dogs are domesticated wolves, same species, canis lupus. Wolves and dogs are still able to interbreed. Birds on the other hand are just typical dinosaurs, just as bats are typical mammals. Both are the ones adapted for flight. As a bat is quite different from a whale or an elephant, a house sparrow (passer domesticus) is quite different from a triceratops horridus or a diplodocus carnegii. (Btw those three species are used for the scientific definition of the clade "dinosauria").

[@quintenwhyte6660]

@12:80 - CORRECTION: Allosaurus and Apatosaurus existed with Stegosaurus in the Late Jurassic!!

[@Deyva100]

Thank you!

[@firstcynic92]

Just one of many errors in this video. It's a mess.

[@greathornedowl1783]

When the subject is Dinosaurs they always screw it up.

[@eriksinica2557]

I enjoyed it greatly.. Facts are all good.. Nice work!

[@adorabledeplorable5105]

Why was it difficult to hear a pterodactyl go potty ? Because their “P” is silent .

[@starrywizdom]

I love you.

[@adorabledeplorable5105]

@@starrywizdom Thank you .

[@countrydawn418]

One of your best video man.

[@hardankles3382]

As far as time frame goes, not necessarily habitat, T-Rex was potentially walking around on Stegosaurus fossils...

[@themicansking2434]

Think of the "videos" that will be made 100 million years from now (if any). It's crazy to imagine a super evolved species of our decendants...

[@christineparis5607]

Victor Ibarra It will be great if we can destroy Trump and Moore DNA.

[@lavitzbass6666]

how about the velociraptor myth that they are bigger then a human

[@lavitzbass6666]

i think they just did it because Velociraptors sounds better

[@GermanLeftist]

They did it because the Velociraptors in the novels were not Velociraptor mongoliensis but Deinonychus antirrhopus, which Gregory Paul, one of Michael Crichton advisers when writting the novel, had just declassifed as Velociraptor antirrhopus, which is even addressed in the novel itself in a conversation between Tim and Dr. Grant. Nearly everything but the size in the films has been adopted from Deinonychus, including the snout. The size in the film was increased for effect and the discovery of the Utahraptor happened while the film was in production. So it actually could be that the film raptors are Utahraptors, but the original novel more or less has established that within the Jurassic Park universe all raptors are just a subspecies of Velociraptor.

[@ricom7091]

Actually the Utahraptor was a little over six feet tall and 23 feet long. It also had the famous nine inch retractable sickle claw. Raptors came in many shapes and sizes. From chicken size to well over human size. Source was museum of natural history of Utah.

[@TheMagusOfTheMagnaCarta]

Actually some were... Alright there were different versions... Velociraptor was the smallest and Utahraptor was the biggest... About eight feet at the hip and eighteen to twenty feet long ...weighed in at about half a ton. Deinonichus was the creature in JP.... With the brains of a troodon and the coolest name...

[@asopher]

Simon can you make an entire channel dedicated to dinosaur stuff? It may even compete with Business Blaze 🤓

[@mrmorelove846]

Love you guys! Thanks Simon you lovely bald British man!

[@sislertx]

The "armor" plate probably also helped them with the sun which was really really.deadly back.then.

[@meirsolomon5626]

Cool, I"m going to check out your new channel.

[@emrysziegler7354]

I love that so many of the pictures used are from The Field Museum

[@michelecox5241]

well done!

[@maycuervo]

Wow this is the only top ten channel that is actually interesting and not clickbait

[@archergaming7271]

Woah! I had that green stegosaurus toy seen when he was talking about tail dragging

[@VibrantlyBrantly]

I just crossed out Pterodactyl, and corrected it to Pteranodon in a kids coloring book my roommate bought for her kid :) Thanks

[@michiganscythian2445]

Get the Dover coloring books. They put a lot of research into theirs

[@Shinzon23]

Wait...nothing about the whole controversy regarding feathered Dinosaurs and how they ultimately became the thing I just had for supper?

[@kerryn6714]

Lazurkri I'm just glad there are no creationists screaming "No! They all drowned in Noah's flood" lol.....well I suppose I haven't given them enough time yet 😀

[@Shinzon23]

kerryn67 just wait...they'll be along shortly.

[@kerryn6714]

Lazurkri They'll be here before the rapture & end times that's guaranteed! 😂

[@Shinzon23]

couchpotato ...The bibles nothing but lies, you know this right?

[@myztklk3v]

actually there is tonnes of scientific proof that most dinosaurs were feathered. What are you going to believe, scientific proof? or some BS you read in a book that lacks any science what-so-ever. Probably the latter, because you're most likely what's wrong with the world.

[@jsmagaz7]

Voice so deep today. Love it ❤

[@calichef1962]

The apatosaurus has always been my favorite. :-)

[@KTChamberlain]

Yeah, Disney artists and animators working on The Rite of Spring in 1940's Fantasia, couldn't have known at that time that the tyrannosaurus and stegosaurus never coexisted. In 1940, there was no way of knowing that the fossil records placed them 75 million years apart at the time, so I can't hold that against them for inadvertently starting the number one misconception about dinosaurs that we've seen in Land Before Time and Jurassic Park.

[@judywaits4u]

As to whether dinosaurs looked after their babies, there is no simple answer because certain types of dinosaurs did and others did not. It seem common that the largest dinosaurs had a plan to produce many eggs, sometimes over a hundred, hoping that one would survive. The reason why they did it however is simple as herbivores had to keep on the move to find food constantly. We know for sure that T.Rex parents looked after their babies for some time after she lays the eggs.

[@firstcynic92]

You talk about labeling things that aren't dinosaurs as dinosaurs, then you go and do it in the next "myth". Pelycosaur is a "mammal like reptile" that went extinct about 50 million years before the first dinosaur existed. There were LOTS more pterosaurs than just Pterosaurus and Pteranodon. 4:51 You talked about the Brontosaurus while showing a Brachiosaurus. Most of the so called Archeoraptor was actually the (as yet undiscovered) Microraptor. If just that part had been reported on, it would have been a genuine find. As you noted, none of the scientists got papers published. It was a scandal only for NatGeo, which isn't a peer reviewed publication. Dinosaurs didn't go extinct. Birds are dinosaurs. 12:05 Your time line is quite off. Yes, T-Rex and Tricerotops existed at the same time, the late Cretatious period. Apatosaurus, Allosaurus & Stegosaurus all were around in the late Jurassic period. Pterodactyls (synonymous with pterosaurs) may have first evolved before dinosaurs, but they were still around when T-Rex existed. Your research on this video was truly terrible.

[@ErikHolten]

Way to permeate a myth after first debunking it: Pelycosaurs were not dinos either, despite you calling them so.

[@SeenDiving]

Simon you called the pteranodon a pterodactyl at the end :p

[@imevolved5412]

I love how he makes a point that not all prehistoric creatures are dinosaurs, then uses a synapsid as proof that dinosaurs cared for their young. I'm not saying they didn't, I just thought that was kind of funny

[@deathbycognitivedissonance5036]

Wow, how did Fred and Wilma do it? Keeps me humble.

[@Babarudra]

And while having a gay old time, too.

[@victoriajames586]

Yabadabado!☺

[@firstcynic92]

With all the mistakes in this video, it makes The Flintstones seem realistic.

[@richardputz3233]

Finished basements and cable T.V.

[@victoriajames586]

First Cynic are you telling me the Flintstones was not a documentary! Oh no shock horror

[@minomerle9906]

Explains that not all ancient reptiles like pterosaurs and plesiosaurs were dinosaurs at all, then two points later shows a Dimetrodon as an example for dinosaurs...

[@typograf62]

I once had a book that claimed that dinosaurs might have gone extinct because they were to stupid to turn away when they came to a lake. So they supposedly just walked straight on and drowned. It was a very old book I think. A cd-rom lexicon (that I have unfortunately lost) showed an animation of a T-Rex fighting a Stegosaurus. The text "informed" me that T-Rex used to hunt and eat Stegosaurs. No wonder that T-Rex got extinct. The poor creatures must have died of starvation before they even evolved.

[@JurassicRaptor1993]

Thank you.

[@harrietharlow9929]

It is my understanding that birds are actually a group of feathered theropod dinosaurs, so birds are not descended from Dinosaurs, but instead ARE dinosaurs.

[@starrywizdom]

Yes,

[@SEB1991SEB]

Monitor Lizards and Iguanas aren't bad parents, their babies don't need them to look after them. That'd be like calling my parents bad parents because they haven't moved in with me to look after me at age 32

[@arielfilmsinc1926]

Supposedly after the asteroid it took two hundred years or so for everything to "start" again

[@NumeMoon]

Sometimes videos like this make me wonder if biology arises as a kind of infection on a planet. It's as if the universe is intent on keeping itself sterile with asteroids, volcanoes, and supernova-type events.

[@aarondavidson907]

I was playing a game of categories with my cross country team and the category was dinosaurs. Because I know more dinos than all of them combined, I was crushing it. Then one guy says "Megalodon". I go, "Not a dinosaur." And everyone looks at me like "WTF". Then he goes, "Yeah it was!" I'm like "No, it was a giant shark." He goes, "Well it lived at the same time as the dinosaurs!" Me: "1. No it didn't. 2. That wouldn't make it a dinosaur." And they made me let it go even though I was 500% right

[@lilaclizard4504]

You were 100% wrong when you said you were 500% right :P

[@christineparis5607]

Aaron Davidson They "made" you let it go? Did they threaten you with violence or something?

[@aarondavidson907]

Lilac Lizard figure of speech.

[@aarondavidson907]

christine paris No, they pressured me to let it go until it was no longer worth my effort to persist. I was pretty frustrated though, but not worth the argument.

[@coralmaynard4876]

Sounds like that didn't go too well. At least you can live with the knowledge that you know more than them.

[@anthonyciccariello8089]

Can you do a video on the younger dryas.

[@amn2760]

Apatosaurus and Allosaurus lived during the Jurassic period, they never lived with T-Rex

[@ErikHolten]

Disappointed that you didn't demonstrate how Chicxulub should be pronounced.

[@toddnolastname4485]

KZbin keeps suggesting Simon's old videos. And I don't realize it's old until either I see his beard, or hear his voice. Doesn't sound the same as he does now. Might be the mic he was using.

[@myspiderungoliant]

There is a bigger time gap between stegosaurus and tyrannosaurus than there is between tyrannosaurus and humans.

[@SketchpadWarrior]

Strange how little snapshots of dinosaur activity are held suspended in fossilized time, eloquently evidencing a rapid deposition of sediment over creatures all across the globe.

[@chadmearhoff9086]

you also forgot to talk about how the t rex could rock out. how else can you explain us having Bang a Gong? ;)

[@starrywizdom]

Marc Bolan fans, represent!

[@d.kincaid3595]

Dinosaur is not a genus, but a clade. The genus brontosaurus has been reinstated. One of the pictures shows a dimetrodon which is not a dinosaur. And T-rex still can't reach the toilet paper...

[@starrywizdom]

T. rex probably had a cloaca like today's birds & didn't need TP. Just sayin'...

[@heresjohnny6598]

its surprising how many archaeologists and or paleontologists and or geologists are in this comment section, Im impressed

[@mitchellskene8176]

Just going to say this, you made a mistake, T rex did not live alongside Apatosaurus or Allosaurus , those 2 species lived during the Jurassic period alongside Stegosaurus. Also you forgot to mention that there's some paleontological evidence the biodeversity of dinosaurs was already in decline for a good 15 million years before the asteroid impact

[@jeffreyrobinson3555]

Added too: 1) steady decrease in Dino species for ten million years before the meteor event 2) the fact that Dino’s dieted our but other animals came through at the 30 kilo line. Crocks, monitor lizards did well.

[@christineparis5607]

Jeffrey Robinson Did they have anorexia?

[@jeffreyrobinson3555]

christine paris ???? Ah no I’m a fat boy

[@BlueCyann]

Love the meteor animation that shows dying sauropods. :/

[@digapygmy70]

Imagine ruling the earth for 135 million years, and the hairless apes who basically just showed up to the party didn't even know you existed until 5 minutes ago

[@regan883]

what about the myth that t-rex had terrible eyesight based on movement??

[@swaghetticarbonara4801]

yes

[@aurelienb3984]

The consequences of a 10km impact are massively overestimated in popular culture. In fact what most people think is the result of a 100km impact. A 10km wide impactor would "only" release 6000 km3 in the atmosphere, that is a mere twice what lake Toba did 73000 years ago and it is NOT known for triggerring a mass extinction. That event would cause the following : within a radius of 1000km everything would be instantly vaporized (that's the impressive part, but after that distance the fireball is below the horizon), at 3000km you would have 300 kph winds with small (10-50cm wide) debris falling on free fall at 250-300kph so comparable to something like a big hurricane, at 10000 km you wouldn't be able to distinguish the noise from the surrounding noise and that is just a hemisphere. It would result of a global opacification of the atmosphere for 2-3 years that you wouldn't be able to see with the naked eye and temperature drops shall not exceed 5 degrees at most, but you should be able to see weird sunsets during this period. Epic wildfires could spread around the impact zone, but we already burnt around 50% of what is to burn. In the end, this should lead to an impact on civilization comparable to WW2 (with a lot more victims depending on crashing site if it happens to be on land but not that much more material damage). Tsunami waves of 4km at the impact site in case of an oceanic impact would be much weaker arriving to coasts (100-200m -ish, like the Santorin explosion that wiped out Minoan civilization), except if the impact occurs near to coasts. In the end, this thing wouldn't even be able to wipe out our civilization and in the case of dinosaurs, was at most the last nail in their coughin

[@gesundeshalbwissen]

Really? The K-Pg extinction event affected also all ammonites, most birds and many mammals. Also all pterosaurs have been wiped out. The dinosaurs were not a clade in decline. Some dinosaur clades were in decline, some on the rise, like tyrannosaurs and birds, of course.

[@multiyapples]

Interesting.

[@michaelmouse5375]

Pelycosaurs are in the branch of Synapsida that give rise to Mammals, dominant in the Late Carboniferous and Permian periods.

[@eruditootidure2611]

2:41 "A small, lizard-like dinosaur called the pelycosaur" - pelycosaurs weren't Dinosaurs... And the pictures genus, Dimetrodon, were around 5-15 feet long, not "small". 12:10 Allosaurus lived during the Late Jurassic, not the Cretaceous... they coexisted with, and preyed upon, Stegosaurus....

[@truckermikemct1]

You forgot to mention that it was impossible for the Flimstones to own a pet dinosaur (amoungst other things... TV, phone service, etc.)

[@ramixnudles7958]

"It's entirely possible" that dinosaurs were tender, loving care-givers to their young, based on two scenarios where an adult was found near multiple young. It's also entirely possible that an adult was to weak to fend off more than one young, hungry, and carnivorous juvenile. There's that pesky comma problem, again: "Let's eat grandma!" The problem is: it's missing. Grandma was a TENDER adult.

[@anthonybeers]

The creature you showed with the sail on its back is a synapsid not a dinosaur.

[@Trimondius]

What killed the dinosaurs?Ah yes,a big fart from earth.

[@The-Random-Hamlet]

Don't forget the Maastrichtian marine regression for the trifecta of extinction party.

[@Izzak_Beck]

Ironically this video perpetuated the myths that dinosaurs were reptiles, went extinct, and that birds are their descendents rather than literally just modern dinosaurs.

[@gemyniraptor8626]

1. Brontosaurus is a valid genus again 2. Pelycosaurs are not true reptiles but are Synapsids, aka proto mammals 3. Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops are not contemporary to Apatosaurus or Allosaurus. Allosaurus and Apatosaurus are contemporary to Stegosaurus.

[@keckmyster8440]

0:30 I was hoping you were going to say Mythconceptions.

[@heikkijhautanen4576]

Dinomythbusters!!!

[@kyleseverene7823]

Interesting

[@SaraMakesArt]

On the topic of all prehistoric animals being referred to as dinosaurs, as much as I love the show, it always bothered me that the Zords in the first season of Power Rangers were said to be inspired by "dinosaurs", even though only two of them actually were! The pink ranger had the Pterodactyl zord, which, as this video mentions, was not a dinosaur. Two of the zords were mammals and one was a mythological creature!

[@stevrsc]

Lol...not all ancient animals are dinosaurs, then confuses a synapsid for a dinosaur. They aren't even a contemporary of dinosaurs

[@eweccah.k.9996]

Temperature changes sound so much more dramatic in Fahrenheit, eh?

[@MrKikip1992]

You just need to watch the kid's show Dinosaur Train! My kids love it and it's very good at debunking myths.

[@2horses4U]

Birds are not descendants of the dinosaurs, they actually ARE dinosaurs - non extinct dinosaurs as it were :) (I have a macaw and several parrots, believe me, I can know haha)

[@gobiwankenobi119]

pelycosaurs are more closely related to humans than dinosaurs

[@WeAreFlawed]

Weird watching Simon do this and not a wrestling show

[@robotech6424]

Why do we continue to call dinosaurs reptiles? Scientific consensus seems to be that most theropods were far more like birds than reptiles. IMHO dinosaurs were like modern animals in that they fit into different classes, perhaps some that don’t exist today.

[@bcast9978]

Robo Tech the archosaur clade which includes birds, crocodiles, and dinosaurs falls under reptile.

[@bcast9978]

So technically we could call birds reptiles

[@lilaclizard4504]

Brandon, but we don't call birds reptiles, so why do we call dinosaurs reptiles? Almost every animal could technically be called a "reptile"

[@bcast9978]

Lilac Lizard haha well lets not go that far. I think the reason in common english we say reptile is because sauros in greek means lizard.

[@bcast9978]

When we first dug up their fossils they just looked like really big lizards to us.

[@SitInTheShayd]

Alasaurus was in the Jurassic period not cretaceous

[@Argonak1]

Allosaurus* sorry they are one of my favorites I can't let you butcher their name like that.

[@strawhataddison]

Those pteradactyls are lil cuties.

[@micheal49]

#1 evidence that dinosaurs were caring parents... no daycare centers.

[@starrywizdom]

Actually, they've found dinosaur daycare centers, though...

[@micheal49]

@@starrywizdom The neat part of that is all of the dreidels lying around.

[@thelonerider5644]

Dinosaurs... probably were killed off when someone developed the dinosaur iphone, then all the young dinosaurs sat around doing nothing and staring at their screens until they starved to death. Seriously, though, I was always under the impression that any environmental changes resulting from a meteor impact were simply attributable to the meteor, not separate disasters, casually speaking.

[@metropod]

Number ZERO... "Dinosaurs are extinct". The Clade of "dinosauria" didn't stop dead in it's tracks with the K-T extinction event. a small group of Theropod dinosuars survived, thrived, and evolved... They're called "Birds". Yes, birds are dinosaurs. The T-rex's closest living relative is the chicken!

[@JoelReid]

Since the discovery of the link between dinosaurs and birds a lot of palaeontologists have made the strong argument that bird behaviour is a developed formof dinosaur behaviour... such as caring for babies.

[@WaterShowsProd]

Thank you for letting people know about The Deccan Traps' role in the Cretaceous Extinction. I see people have already pointed out the dimetrodon mistake, brontosaurus/apatosaurus, brachiosaurus cameo appearance, and allosaurus anachronism, but I also wanted to mention the very outdated illustration shown when describing pterodactylus includes an array of species including rhamphorhynchus. It amazes me that some people still believe some of the myths that are mentioned.

[@rebelreloading5265]

The movie should have been called Cretaceous park