We Are Pleased To Inform You There Are Probably Dinosaur Remains On The Moon | IFLScience

Right, strap in because this is a weird one. Thanks to a (glorious) piece of science writing that has been shared online over the last few days, people are now learning what astrophysicists and (possibly) astronauts have known for a long time: There are most likely tiny chunks of dinosaur sitting up there on the Moon.

Yes, that's right, dinosaurs beat us to it. Sixty-five million years before humankind took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind", dinosaurs made it to our satellite, although to be fair their safety procedures weren't quite as rigorous as ours so they didn't so much step foot on the Moon as spray themselves across it like water from a Super Soaker.

How did they get there, and possibly beyond? Yes, you guessed it, their version of a rocket ship (the impressive, terrifying idiots) was hitching a lift on the debris caused by the asteroid that wiped them out.

However, if the body is large enough and fast enough, the impact can cause debris to achieve escape velocity (11.2 kilometers a second) and leave our atmosphere entirely. A lot of it will fall back on the planet, but other pieces may be ejected from the planet's influence and head out into the Solar System, possibly putting them on collision courses with other planets.

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