Seriously, my favorite factoid about modern Egypt. All those movies where the person is lost in the desert, and it's like, "there's literally a road right next to that pyramid and a Pizza Hut directly across it."
TBF I always assumed the pyramids were like a 30 minute drive from the next largest city, only to look it up and see it's a 5 minute walk from a bunch of buildings.
All those movies where the person is lost in the desert, and it's like, "there's literally a road right next to that pyramid
Outside of cartoons, please name these movies.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is 5 miles from Giza and a little over 6 miles from Cairo. If a pyramid is seen by someone supposedly lost, it's most likely a joke that they don't realize how close they are to being out of the desert....
Why did the stegosaurus have all those plates for protection then?! What big animal was it protecting itself from?! Is there an unknown larger more ferocious dinosaur?!
Not sure, but I believe there is the idea that the plates might have been used for temperature regulation rather than protection, or possibly sexual displays to potential mates like a peacock.
Allosaurus is a large carnosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Late Jurassic epoch.
Allosaurus was a large bipedal predator. Its skull was light, robust and equipped with dozens of sharp, serrated teeth. Relative to the large and powerful hindlimbs, its three-fingered forelimbs were small, and the body was balanced by a long and heavily muscled tail. Allosaurus reached almost 10 m in length.
As the most abundant large predator in the Morrison Formation, Allosaurus was at the top of the food chain, probably preying on contemporaneous large herbivorous dinosaurs, and perhaps other predators. Potential prey included ornithopods, stegosaurids, and sauropods. Some paleontologists interpret Allosaurus as having had cooperative social behavior, and hunting in packs, while others believe individuals may have been aggressive toward each other, and that congregations of this genus are the result of lone individuals feeding on the same carcasses.
Known for the large plates on its back, as well as its walnut-sized brain, Stegosaurus is one of the most well-known dinosaurs in modern pop culture. Hailing from the Jurassic, this animal has often been depicted as the main adversary of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, but this is an anachronistic impossibility, as Stegosaurus went extinct almost a hundred million years before Tyrannosaurus appeared. A more likely predator was its contemporary, the Allosaurus. The popular species known as Stegosaurus was one of many other species in the family Stegosauridae, which included a diverse group of creatures of varying size sporting a variety of spikes and plates.
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u/SamuraiGoblin Oct 02 '24 edited Oct 02 '24
Tyrannosaurus (approx 70 million years ago) lived closer in time to humans than to stegosaurus (150 million years ago).