Yesterday my daughter and I went to vote on the referendum. Our polling place is at the elementary school in the neighborhood of San Lorenzo (Rome). Afterwards we went to a nearby park to sit in the sun pretending to be lizards.
The park is part of a new residence called The Social Hub.
The park has picnic tables and benches and even swings and two ping pong tables. It’s a perfect place to take a sack lunch and enjoy urban outdoors.
I was surprised to see a dinosaur walking around in the park as I had read about them the day before. The spiky tail of a stegosaurus is called a thagomizer. But the Dino in the Park doesn’t have a spiky tail. There are over 700 distinct species of extinct non-avian dinos. Unfortunatley, I don’t know how to distinguish one type from another.
The rails seen are from the train station. If you’re lucky, you can be looking at the dinosaur when a train passes by. Anachronistic.
Here Mr. Dino has a Godzilla vibe to him. Luckily he can’t move.
The building on the right is the new residence. On the botton left is what remains of the Ex-Dogana di San Lorenzo. The Dogana severed to control goods travelling on trains. But now, under the tutelage of the Beni Culturale (Cultural Heritage), it’s been transformed into the Accademia Italiana that has the objective of being the first campus of its kind in Italy dedicated to design.
It was Sir Richard Owen who came up with the term “dinosauria”nfrom the Greek words “δεινός” meaning “severe” and “σαύρα” meaning “lizard”.
What we know about dinosaurs is based mainly on fossils.
Non-avian dinosaurs went extinct c. 66 million years ago.
Most bidepal dinos had feathers and not all dinos were huge. Sometimes dinosaurs got the sniffles and some even suffered with respiratory illnesses.
Dinosaurs roamed the earth for more than 165 million years and became extinct c. 65 million years ago.
The stegosaurus had a brain the size of a walnut.
The chicken has the closest DNA to the T-Rex.
The water you drink, technically, has a little bit of dinosaur urine in it.
Dinosaurs didn’t roar and probably made sounds like a dove cooing.
The first scientific account regarding dinosaurs wasn’t published until 1617.
Some dinos were vegetarians. But birds evolved from the theropods, meat eating dinos.
Horseshoe crabs are twice as old as dinosaurs.
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