Useless Facts

Recents finds show that newly hatched Tyrannosaurs were among the largest hatchlings known at around three feet long and suggests Tyrannosaurs also laid some of the largest eggs known, even including sauropods, at around 17 inches long. The anatomy of these hatchlings was also remarkably similar to adult and juvenile tyrannosaurs.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210125113121.htm

 

...And I misread yours as:

Prehistoric Lassie?

 

me too

 

Bonus Tyrannosaur fact- juvenile T rex were significantly lighter in build and faster for their size than heavy, bone crunching adults, and their development shows a period of fast exponential growth once they transition into adulthood. This combined with the relative lack of coexisting medium sized predatory dinosaurs suggests that the juvenile T rex actually occupied the medium sized niche before rapidly transitioning to a giant heavyweight predator in adulthood. Juveniles may have been better at taking faster moving and more agile prey while adults would have been better at taking large prey and crunching up bones from carcasses.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/1/eaax6250

 

So Hammer had it right all along. Next, scientists discover beautiful buxom wenches in fur bikinis were around at the same time as dinosaurs.

 

Double bonus - the total number of Tyrannosaurus Rex that ever lived on Earth was roughly 2.5 billion. Only about 100 or so T. Rex fossils have been found – 32 of them with enough material to figure they are adults. If there were 2.5 million T. Rex instead of 2.5 billion, we would probably have never known they existed

 

There were actually 5 billion T. rexes around, but half of those were located in what later became the state of Texas where they were barbecued and eaten by a long lost forerunner of the cowboy.

 

Texas rexes are the ones with the long horns. Accept no substitutes.

 

Worth noting that study has some rather generous margins of error with the full range offered by the statistical test being all the way from 140 million to as much as 42 billion.
It's more of a pilot study in even beginning to estimate total population over time of fossil species rather than a particularly accurate number.

 

Goats have rectangular pupils in their eyes.

There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year.

Some perfumes actually have whale poo in them.

The snow on Venus is metal.

 

Isn't it whale fat? Cause I know ambergis is commonly used.

 

I thought that was whale sperm. At least that is what I remember from my quick stop at Grasse, France. Maybe I remember or heard wrong... or heard what I wanted to hear.

Ok, just looked it up it is like above mentioned ambergris from the sperm whale.

And here all along, I've been thinking I added whale sperm to my own perfume. I've even been telling people about it in a proud tone: "Yeah I added real whale sperm to a perfume I crafted myself while in Grasse."
I am such a cockhead.

 

At one point in the early Triassic, 95% of all land vertebrates were Lystrosaurus.

 

The sperm was used for something. I mean, it isn't actually their semen, it's a thick white substance found inside the whale's head that apparently cushions really well, like gel in your athletic shoes. It allows them to ram ships or each other insanely hard. And apparently it has a really sweet smell. I don't know what it was used for (or still is?) but I remember how valuable and prized it was from Moby Dick. Perfume might be right.

 

Not quite. 95% of vertebrate fossils recovered from some beds are Lystrosaurus.
Important to note on that first point that smaller organisms are less likely to be recovered because their bones are more fragile and may not fossilize as readily, harder to find because they don't stick out as much, and there can be a bit of a bias towards exciting large animals among fossil hunters.

 

Actually, ambergris is mainly passed like fecal matter out the other end. It is thought that sometimes it might be thrown up but this is actually not known to happen.

 

Spermaceti is the name of the substance. It's thought to help with either buoyancy or echolocation, especially the latter. Been used to make wax commonly. Useful for everything from cosmetics to candles.

 

Between 1937 and 1995 SCOTUS didn't strike down a single federal law on commerce clause grounds. Pretty crazy.

 

These words can be typed on a qwerty keyboard using only your left hand:

I'm pretty skeptical of some of them but too lazy to look them all up

 

you don't mean right hand do you?

 

Umm,

err...

LEFT I SEZ!!!!!!!!!!!