• Question: what was the first dinosaur discoverd

    Asked by anon-271264 on 21 Nov 2020.
    • Photo: Liza Sazonova

      Liza Sazonova answered on 21 Nov 2020:

      We don’t really know — it was a real long time ago, and all we can tell about dinosaurs is from skeletons that we find. The oldest dinosaur we found so far has a weird name Nyasasaurus Parringtoni. It lived 243 million years ago!
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      I always find it mind-blowing that dinosaurs died away 65 million years ago. It means that there is 4 times less time between us and the last dinosaur than between them and the first dinosaurs! If we were a family, then us and the dinosaurs would be like 10 and 20 year old siblings, while the first dinosaurs would be our 60 year old grandparents 🙂

    • Photo: Adrien Chauvet

      Adrien Chauvet answered on 21 Nov 2020:

      It is highly probable that skeletons of dinosaurs were at the origin of mythical beast like dragons, gryphons, unicorns, etc.

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