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4 days ago · Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles that were the dominant terrestrial life form on Earth during the Mesozoic Era, about 245 million years ago. Dinosaurs went into decline near the end of the Cretaceous Period, about 66 million years ago.
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Dinosaur - Reptiles, Extinction, Fossils: The chief...
- Dinosaur Ancestors
An early candidate for the ancestor of dinosaurs was a small...
- Extinction
Dinosaur - Extinction Causes, Evidence, & Theory: The mass...
- Thyreophora
Table of Contents The Thyreophora consist mainly of the...
- The Asteroid Theory
Dinosaur - Asteroid Theory, Extinction, Fossils: The...
- Ankylosaurs
Dinosaur - Armored, Herbivorous, Extinct: Ankylosaurs are...
- Ornithischian
ornithischian, any member of the large taxonomic group of...
- Megalosaurus
Megalosaurus was originally reconstructed as a striding...
- Classification
4 days ago · Dinosaurs were extremely successful animals, but eventually the ‘Age of Reptiles’ came to an end. Around 66 million years ago, life on Earth was devastated by a sudden, dramatic occurrence that caused 75% of all plant and animal species to become extinct.
4 days ago · Dinosaur - Extinction Causes, Evidence, & Theory: The mass extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago remains a misconception; the fossil record shows that dinosaurs were already in decline during the late Cretaceous.
2 days ago · The surviving group of dinosaurs were avians, a few species of ground and water fowl, which radiated into all modern species of birds. Among other groups, teleost fish and perhaps lizards also radiated.
1 day ago · The Jurassic ( / dʒʊˈræsɪk / juurr-ASS-ik [2]) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period 201.4 million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately 145 Mya.
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3 days ago · Dinosaurs | The Edge of Extinction uncovers a century of research about both Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus Rex – two of the most well-known dinosaurs – and how they lived until the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction. It will reveal the interdependence between the species, their environment, and the forces that shaped both their life and extinction.