Dinosaurs appear to have beaten humans to the moon by a few million years – and their remains could even be on Mars, experts have said.
The animals which inhabited our planet are likely to have travelled to outer space on the debris caused by the asteroid that wiped them out – so they won't have been alive when they made it to Earth's orbit.
The incredible claim was made in Peter Brannen's The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions.
The extract from the book, which reports how scientists are uncovering clues about what caused five catastrophes which dragged life on Earth to the very edge of extinction, has recently gone viral racking up thousands of retweets on.
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