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0012 – stegosaurus

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DINOSAURS!!!

I think one of the biggest pet peeves for dinosaur people, is that a lot of people don’t realise that the Mesozoic (aka DINOSAUR era) was a three part series:

Part I: The Triassic (252-201 million years ago) was the first part with all the dinosaurs that no-one remembers the names of.

Part II: The Jurassic (201-145 mya) is when dinosaurs became dominant. This is when you’d find the Stegosaurus, Diplodocus, and Allosaurus.

Part III: The Cretaceous (145-66 mya) is the one you actually know a bit about. T-rex, Triceratops, Velociraptor (which was basically a chicken, FYI), Ankylosaurus, ended with a meteor impact in the Gulf of Mexico, etc.

Some people blame Jurassic Park for the common misconception, but damn it’s such a good movie… how can you be mad at it?

0005 – the other titans

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The original convention for naming moons of Saturn was to name them after Titans… until they ran out of Titans. Now they name them after basically whatever mythological character they can think of.

If you want to actually see the moons of Saturn, fortunately Wikipedia made a much more helpful infographic than mine:

Moons of Saturn (stolen shamelessly from Wikipedia)

0004 – titan

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Titan is currently the only body in the outer solar system that we have successfully landed on. Also, all the mountains on Titan are named after mountains from Middle Earth – Mithrim Montes is the tallest, and Doom Mons (which sits right next to Erebor Mons, of course) is the biggest.

But seriously, everything about this place is just weird.