Dino-mania
[dinosaur trivia]

• Smallest of the flying dinosaurs was about the size of a robin.
• Scholars who study dinosaurs say there were some smart dinosaurs and many stupid dinosaurs. The smart ones came along early, but in the survival wars, the stupid dinosaurs won.
• Experts on dinosaurs, having measured resonating chambers of skulls, claim that some of those big beasts groaned tones like the tones of French horns.
• In the past 20 years, more than 50 new species of dinosaurs have been identified.
• Footprints in stone show that little dinosaurs moved pretty swiftly...up to 27 mph. Bigger dinosaurs labored along quite slowly...always under 4 mph.
• Most dinosaurs lived in what is now the United States. Second choice seems to have been China and Argentina.
• What wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago actually did away with about two-thirds of all animal species alive until then. Yet whoever hears about any but the dinosaurs?