26Blue whale
Even when taking dinosaurs into account, the modern day blue whale is the largest animal to ever live.
27. The galaxy M100 is so far away that if beings from there were to look at Earth right now, they would be watching the real-time extinction of the dinosaurs.
28. There were 4 mass extinction events before the one that killed the dinosaurs. The most severe extinction event killed a staggering 97% of all species. All life on earth today is descended from the 3% that survived.
29. There were active volcanoes on the moon when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
30. Scientists have genetically altered chickens to express DNA that their dinosaur ancestors once possessed. They wanted to stop the genes that make the fingers grow into a wing and the tail from receding back into the chicken while in utero, so that it'll look like a dinosaur when born. Eventually, the chickens grew teeth.
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31Dinosaur feathers
Dinosaur feathers aren't just visually apparent in fossils but have actually been found preserved in amber.
32. In 2015, a 4-year-old named Wylie Brys searching for fossils found 100 million-year-old dinosaur bones in Mansfield, Texas.
33. Daddy Longlegs have been around for at least 400 million years, barely changing, and pre-date the dinosaurs.
34. The T-Rex at the end of Jurassic World is the same exact one from the end of the original Jurassic Park, and the scars on its side are from its fight with the Velociraptors in the first movie.
35. The velociraptor screech from Jurassic Park was a recording of tortoises having sex.
