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xj900uk
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Good point. Don't do any pictures of baby or newly hatched dinos.
Interestingly enough, scientists are able to calculate the life span of dinosaurs by the growth rings on bones in dinosaur fossils, and it's a lot shorter than one might think. 18 was middle age for some of them, the T-Rex lived 27-33 years for example.
Article on the subject
And I never bothered to look before the subject was brought up here. I always thought they were pretty long lived because of their size.
Article on the subject
And I never bothered to look before the subject was brought up here. I always thought they were pretty long lived because of their size.
FantasyForge
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Yes, I did read that they only take around 10 years to reach adulthood for big dino predators, if memory serves. Humans are the oddball, taking far longer to "mature" than animals generally.
UPDATE - in the fully-grown sense.
UPDATE - in the fully-grown sense.
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DeanMcStabs
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Dinosaurs rule! Fun facts that might hurt your brain or make you angry even though they are true: Birds are dinosaurs! Specifically, therapod dinosaurs. Most people know this, but they seem to forget that dinosaurs are in fact reptiles. That means birds are reptiles! All dinosaurs, including birds are under the clade archosaur. The only other extant group of archosaurs are crocodilians. Soooo, crocodilians closest living relatives are birds! Crocodiles are more closely related to birds than they are to all other reptiles. I really like this fact lol
FantasyForge
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In the spirit of the above post, I would like to mention another fun fact. Birds are actually fish, and fish are actually worms. 
DeanMcStabs
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Things don't evolve out of their clades, so in a technical and somewhat satirical and simplistic sense this is actually fairly trueIn the spirit of the above post, I would like to mention another fun fact. Birds are actually fish, and fish are actually worms.
It's worth noting that if we go this far into a less traditional classification of evolutionary biology, humans are also fish 