If there is one dinosaur that has become the star of the Jurassic show over the years, it’s the T-rex. Although they walked the Earth millions of years ago, they are still a fan favorite. Now, it looks as though the t-rex could have enjoyed built-in air conditioning.

The Holes In Question

The T-rex had two holes on the roof of its skull, known as dorsotemporal fenestra. The number of intact skulls found over the years has shown they exist for a long time. For many years, scientists thought that they were filed with muscles that would have helped the dinosaur control its impressive and powerful jaw. However, new studies believe they could have another answer to their existence.

Another Alternative

People were confused by the idea that a muscle could have grown along and then turned 90 degrees to go up through the holes. However, there is evidence that suggests the holes could have been filled with blood vessels. If they are correct, then this could mean that the holes were there to act as built-in air conditioning for the T-rex.

Modern-Day Clues

Why have scientists suddenly thought of another answer? This is all thanks to modern-day reptiles and alligators – whose ancestors roamed the Earth long before the T-rex. They have holes in their skull that appear to heat up when their body is cold and cool down when they are warm. It’s almost as though they have a thermostat all of their own.

The T-rex might have dominated the Earth millions of years ago, but their sheer size and power has left many of us wondering about the, ever since. Now, it turns out they could have been more impressive than any of us ever imagined thanks to their built-in air conditioning. Sadly. We’ll probably never get to see it in motion with our own eyes.

How to store your belongings is a problem for each of us, in a way that both matches the space we live in and our personal taste. With these clever space-saving storage tips and ideas as inspiration, you can be on the fast track to an organized, clutter-free home.

Got folding chairs? Need some extra storage spaces? No problem! All you need to do is mount these chairs on the wall. When you need the extra room, just open up the chairs and use the seat as a shelf. The spindles or stretchers giving structural support to the chair legs can also be used to hang clothes. Don’t need the space anymore? Just fold the chairs into the wall, or remove them entirely.

The longer you live in a home, the more tools you accumulate. It’s a shame to keep them unorganized, but don’t forget they often come with holes! Storing them in an organized, dry spot away from children’s outreached hands is something you can do with a pegboard you can easily install in the wall of your garage. Garages are often the most junk-littered room in the home, yet there’s no reason why this storage space should be any less organized.

We can’t all be blessed with sprawling bathrooms of luxurious marble with a spot built-in for each and every one of our showering products. While some of us are lucky enough to bathe in luxury regularly, most people must take quick showers. So for those of us who tend to be late for work by rummaging around the clutter in the shower to find the right soap, placing clips to hang our different bathing items is one of the best things we can do for ourselves.

Got the know-how and the love for cooking, but lack the storage space needed to channel your inner chef? That’s a problem a lot more people have than you’d think. To solve this, someone had the genius idea of hooking their pans and skillets up on a rod for easy access as well as saving storage space. After all, the area found under shelves is usually free and open space that can be better used to help take the pressure off of cabinets and closets.

Here’s another way to open up more space to store the rest of your shoes! All too often, closet doors are forgotten and the full potential of a given closet’s potential storage space isn’t realized. But for those who know what’s what, make sure to put some vertical organizers up the reachable height of the door. As you can see, you can even conveniently store high-heels, as they’re usually lightweight enough to be mounted on any closet door.

Gift wrap is something that you buy once and then it goes in the box with the rest of your gift wraps. There’s one for every occasion and holiday, but luckily these repeat year after year, without fail, so you don’t need to keep buying them every year. But where do you put them? Putting up miniature shelves like this and attaching some twine to the wall can be a really elegant and stylish solution that can hold any other roll of paper, from sketches to blueprints.

There’s often so much room right above kitchen cabinets, although some of them do reach all the way up and touch the ceiling. More often than not, though, the gap just serves to collect dust, which you will then have to clean. You can use this space as storage by placing some boxes up there, reaping the benefits of having both more room to put things and less surface to clean in a particularly hard-to-reach area.

Just like closet doors, the walls of the closets are often neglected space that can be used to fit even more stuff inside. After all, as long as your things are organized and easy to access, the more you can fit in your closet. There’s a lot of potential storage space on the wall behind the clothes hanging on the closet rod, and to access it just put up some cable straps and hook up a scarf or purse hanger.

The kitchen countertop has to be one of the hardest places in the house to keep clear. You might find anything on the kitchen counter at one time or another, from ingredients and plates to kittens and kids. For this reason, it’s a good idea to clear up some space on top of the counter, all the while using the air space above them for storage. You can see here how much of a difference the rod makes in keeping the clutter out of the kitchen.

Pegboards aren’t just for garages and toolsheds, although that’s probably the first place you’d think to see them. In fact, they’re a really stylish way to find a convenient and easy-to-reach spot to store pots, pans, towels, spices, and more. Why open and close cabinets and drawers when you can just reach over and unhook whatever you need? Here’s a tip to make your kitchen more professional: hook your most-used essentials up there while storing your less-used kitchen items in the drawers and cabinets.

If you’re like many of us, it never even occurred to you to store your spices in anything other than what they came in. So some of them might be in bags and spilling out in a drawer, forgotten, while others will be in the mismatched containers you bought them in. On the other hand, you can easily just empty them out into separate spice jars of the same sort for easy storage, a quick and easy solution to a common spice problem.

Have you ever been shopping around for a specialized container, only to notice that it’s pretty much the same as the ordinary container but 10 times as expensive? Well, vanity jars are no different than regular jars that can be bought for peanuts. Some of them look quite nice, too, so there’s no reason to spend an arm and a leg (or even more than $10) for a nice-looking receptacle to house your cotton balls and Q-tips.

Between the generous purchases made by grown-ups, trades, and hand-me-downs by which a child acquires more toys, the quantity of toys seems to be evergrowing. Kids need to put all their toys somewhere, so mothers and fathers have to find a place to store their toys. Instead of paying the premium for a tag telling you it’s a bin for toys, just reuse an old bin by decorating it with wallpaper or some other decorative covering for your child.

Despite its name, linen is often not even the most common fabric inside of a linen closet. People put towels and other assorted textiles up in their linen closets, which makes them unorganized. Just like repurposing old bins, you can also organize your space better by covering diaper boxes with some sort of decorative covering to hide the logo and use them to organize your linen closet. You can separate your linens from the towels before stowing it all away.

Who would have thought that toiletries and materials for arts and crafts had so much in common? OK, so maybe not that much, but they do fit in the same small storage spaces. This old bathroom tower cabinet, for example, was replaced by a newer model, but that doesn’t mean it’s not good. In fact, it makes for a perfect crafts cart — the only thing holding it back is the lack of wheels. Those can be bought for much cheaper than a specialized cart.

Hampers and laundry baskets are definitely something everyone should have, and nothing is more stylish than an elegant rope basket. While you can definitely buy a rope basket for an absurd price, all you need to do to make one is rope, glue, and a basket to mold to your new creation. Just start coiling the rope around from one end, starting on the bottom of the bucket in the middle, and then continue coiling around the shape of the basket while gluing the rope together.

A lot of the ideas on this list involve mounting things on the walls, so don’t come complaining if you’re not using your walls and suffering from no storage space. If money’s an issue, check out what someone did with old cans that most people would just toss out. Instead of looking like they put garbage on the wall, though, this set up looks extremely rustic and homely. The herbs, flowers, knives, wooden spoons, and more are all separated and organized, and the on-the-wall availability means that you can access all of the utensils easily.

There’s usually so much space that goes to waste under beds, but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t take advantage of it. Just find out the measurements before going out looking for drawers because you might end up with drawers that are too big to fit under your bed. And if you have kids that are afraid of the boogeyman under their bed, you can just put drawers underneath so they know there’s not enough room under there for monsters.

Boots, the biggest and most protective type of footwear, take up the most storage space, so why even toss them in with the rest of your shoes? Storing them upside down takes care of the dust collecting on the insole as well, as can happen — imagine putting on a pair of boots you haven’t seen since last year only to find a thin, nasty layer of dust now stuck to your sock. That’s not a very pleasant surprise.

When it comes to folding tops to make sure they don’t get wrinkles, there are some sorts that you don’t actually have to bother yourself with. Instead of folding your camisoles and putting them in drawers or on a shelf, remember that they don’t really need to be folded at all, all the while they take up space other articles of clothing can fill. You can use an accessory hanger to put them all up in your closet by the spaghetti straps.

Oftentimes, even a manufactured and mass-produced solution that was designed by a creative mind will come up short as far as answering your unique storage problems. And don’t forget that you’re paying a premium. On the other hand, these stylish drawers were actually made with dollar-store bought bins that were then spray painted the desired color and mounted with these cool hooked handles. It looks like something you’d see at an overpriced fancy home store, but in fact it’s a clever money-saver.

The different ways you can use ordinary bins for storage is impressive, but did you know it can even extend outside of the home? This plastic storage container comes with drawers and is pretty cheap, so you don’t need to start investing in wood or other materials like metal for outdoor storage. Those will both cost more and get ruined by the elements if they’re left outside for long enough. Plastic, on the other hand, will last a while before it breaks.

There’s a lot of room under the sink to put stuff, but don’t fall victim to the same mistake so many of us make when we move into a new home. Even though what you have under the sink remains mostly unseen, that doesn’t mean it should remain cluttered and disorganized. We have a duty to ourselves to keep the clutter out of our homes, and keeping everything in separate compartments is easily and cheaply done with generic bins.

Plastic bags are increasingly seen in a negative light, but if you want to be more environmentally friendly, reuse your plastic as much as possible. There’s no excuse for not saving plastic bags, which can then be used as anything from picking up dog poop to even bringing more groceries home from the store, without needing to take any more. You can hit two birds with one stone if you save a plastic bottle to be repurposed and modified to dispense the plastic bags.

Small ornaments fit perfectly in egg cartons. They’re buffered and separated from each other, and the firm box keeps them from getting squished so they’ll be ready for next year’s festivities. Being able to pile multiple egg cartons on top of each other is a nice extra hack that can save even more space than one big box. What’s also great is the fact that this Christmas decor storage won’t cost you a thing, and you can save on decoration costs for next year.

A crafty way to display all your gorgeous clothes with a garment rack, and it’s an elegant way to show all the clothes that won’t fit in your closet. You can also use this rack as an organizer to set aside the clothes you plan to wear that week. Not only will it save space in your closet, but you’ll be more organized in the mornings when getting dressed. All you have to do is set a few minutes aside one night and take clothes that you plan to wear for the week ahead.

Save room on some crucial counter space while organizing all your makeup and accessories into one dazzling beauty counter with this transparent set of plastic bins specifically designed for beauty products. The chic and elegant exterior creates a visually appealing display that coordinates beautifully with most décor. Any makeup lover will enjoy keeping their accessories organized and easily accessible, while reducing clutter, saving time to get ready, and gain space. Convenient slot compartments on the top, will keep your items protected, upright, and in place.

Shower rings are not just for your bathroom anymore— these affordable hooks can also be used inside your bedroom as a clever organizing hack for your accessories. They might seem like an unusual tool, but they can be surprisingly useful as hooks, allowing you to hook items onto things and hang things where you couldn’t have before, like these belts, scarves, and hats on a coat hanger. You’ll love having them handy as you think of new uses for them.

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With your books appearing as if they are magically floating on your wall, this shelf is not only eye-catching but also space-saving. The shelves have flexibility in the mounting formation and can be displayed as a group or separately, linear in orientation or staggered. They will give any room a fresh, ultra-minimal look. They mount to the wall and become invisible behind a stack of books, giving the books the appearance of floating in mid-air and perfect for storing those extra books that don’t fit on your shelf.

Make a space-saving drying rack that you can use over your sink. Travel down the aisles of your favorite organizing store to find a right-sized pair of a drying/cooling rack, which will allow you to dry all those extra dishes like cutlery and glassware in one tidy, easy-to-grab spot. It will save you counter space when you need it. And the stainless steel dish rack over the sink will really come in handy when hosting and while providing a thorough dry without taking up extra space.

Optimize the space you have in your bathroom with this shower curtain that has built-in pockets. The pockets function as a shower caddy with different sized mesh pockets to accommodate the varying heights and widths of shampoo, conditioner, sponges, and other personal care items. It’s an ideal solution for showers with limited space, especially if you have kids as this shower curtain caddy will organize kids’ toys into convenient quick-dry pockets to make bath time more fun and organized. So everybody wins!

Hang bags with pants hangers. This is a genius tip, and it gives wire shelves their one redeeming quality—you can hang things from them. Pants hangers serve as both chip clips to keep contents fresh and fastened to hangers to keep bags from flopping everywhere and chips from getting crushed. So the next time you’re looking for a chip clip, it will be easier to find them as they are neatly hanging. When your chips are suspended like this, it will give more space to store other things underneath the bags on the actual shelf.

Use lazy susans to take full advantage of your pantry space while preventing corner dead space. Lining things up near the edges and corners of the pantry often leaves a square of empty space or an awkward configuration of items that are hard to reach. Transform this unoccupied space land into one of the most useful spots in your pantry with a lazy Susan that will turn each thing on it right to your fingertips for an easy to reach upgrade.

Ever find your fridge gets a bit overcrowded and messy during certain times of the year, like when hosting on weekends or during the holidays? One easy way to prevent this is to stack baking trays for extra shelves in your fridge whenever you need them. When you’re out of space in your fridge, and you don’t want to play Tetris with casserole dishes and pickle jars, place a baking sheet on top of a flat surface and boom! Instant extra shelf.

Use a kitchen sink sponge holder as an inventive way to store any small items you might otherwise lose in the fridge. This hack will cost you less than $5 and it will be unobtrusive, as a sponge holder can be stuck on virtually any smooth surface, including the inside of your refrigerator. Use it to hold and store take-out sauce packets, small condiment jars or any small containers that don’t fit anywhere else in a cool and convenient place.

With this hack, you can store your linens right where you’ll need them. Instead of wishing you had a bigger linen closet (or one at all), save your extra sheet sets in the bedroom that you use them in. Store them underneath the mattress that they’ll eventually go on. They’re out of sight, take up virtually no room, and are kept safe from dust. Fold them wide and thin, so you don’t have any weird under-mattress bumps, don’t forget they’re there, and you’re good to go.

Children’s stuffed animals can quickly take over their bed, bedroom, and playroom, so parents need a secure storage solution. This toy hammock is an original way to hold and organize kids’ toys, pillows, stuffed animals, and other items in an attractive way that becomes part of the décor. Just string it across a corner, like over their bed where little ones will enjoy having their stuffed animal friends close, or along any wall where they provide a colorful decoration.

Easily create bonus space in your shower or by a mirror with a sponge holder. With the suction cups, you can stick it anywhere on a shower wall or a big mirror to keep the soap, shampoos, and lotions from making a slimy mess. Use it to get a few extra inches of quality storage for your toiletries. You can even use it to store your skincare and makeup brushes in the bathroom if you prefer getting ready there.

IKEA shoe racks are amazing, and what makes them so great is that you can use them to store just about anything. Short on storage space for towels and extra linens? Try rolling your towels for the best use of space. Need an accessible storage place for tools or kitchen utensils and make the most of the easy to open drawers. IKEA shoe cabinets have a slim profile, are nice-looking, and  they’re an inexpensive solution for organizing various items.

If you go out to the mall looking for a jewelry hanger, you can definitely expect to pay a premium because it’s for jewelry. Meanwhile, pants hangers should be significantly cheaper and they do the same darn thing. Don’t be a mug and pay more when you can get the same utility from a similar product! Furthermore, hanging this in the closet is also a good idea, as the first place a burglar looks for your jewelry isn’t in between the clothes in your closet.

For small, miscellaneous items that always seem to find their way into a chaotic mess in your drawers, the solution might be the same as for a runny nose: tissues. More specifically, you can reuse tissue boxes after they run out and store all those random objects that don’t really go together with anything else. Maybe you like paper clips and bobby pins together, or maybe you prefer your paper clips with post-its. Regardless, this way you decide what stays separated and what mixes with what.

If you’re like millions of people around the world, you do your laundry long after your laundry basket is filled to the brim. To combat the heavy load, an elegant solution is mounting your laundry bin on wheels so you can cart it around your house all the way to the washing machine. This is also a useful idea for transporting wet laundry somewhere else and hanging it to dry, or to the dryer if it’s in another room.

Wine glasses collect dust sitting upright and are problematic to store, even in a cabinet. The upside-down wine glass rack is the way to go, and there’s almost always enough room to install them under a shelf.

If you just ask around for boxes, the first retail store you enter will probably give it to you for free. They throw so many of them away that you’d be doing them a favor. Although cardboard brown isn’t the most attractive color, cardboard is one of the cheapest ways to compartmentalize your belongings and store things better. All this person needed to do to make a specialized personal device charging station is to paint a cardboard box. You won’t see phone charging cables laying about haphazardly in this house!

These window boxes are so beautiful that whoever did this reckoned they deserved to remain indoors instead of outside, where they could lose their color in the sun and rain. They just put up some hooks in the bathroom and turned them into an awesome storage solution for your bathroom. No need to call a friend for help when you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, towels, soaps — all of those and more can fit comfortably in these easy-to-access compartments.