Cretaceous

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Psittacosaurus – Light and Dark Shading Preserved in a Fossil Showed It Lived in a Shady Forest

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【Life of the Jurassic】Belemnites – Ink From a Fossil Ink Sac Was Used to Draw the Animal Itself

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Tambatitanis – The Friendship of the Two Men Who Found It on a Riverbed Became Its Name

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Giganotosaurus – “Bigger Than T. rex,” Based on One Skeleton and One Lower Jaw Bone

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Nipponites – The Knotted Shell Suspected of Being a Deformity Was a Simple Coiling Rule, Repeated

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Maiasaura – Fifteen Young in a Nest Showed That Dinosaurs Raised Their Babies

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Ammonites – Countless Shells Survive, but the Body Inside Is Still Unknown

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Kamuysaurus – The Tail Taken for a Plesiosaur Was the End of an 8-Meter Dinosaur

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Elasmosaurus – A Neck of 72 Vertebrae That Was First Reconstructed as a Tail

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Protoceratops – The Dinosaur Said to Have Inspired the Griffin Lay Too Far From the Gold

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Quetzalcoatlus – The Pterosaur Thought Too Big to Fly Leapt Into the Sky

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Iguanodon – The Nose Horn Was a Thumb: An Early Dinosaur That Kept Being Redrawn

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Futabasaurus – A Plesiosaur Found by a High School Student Waited 38 Years for Its Name

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Parasaurolophus – The Dinosaur Whose Crest Was a Wind Instrument, Its Call Rebuilt from CT Scans

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Ankylosaurus – The First Restoration Had No Tail Club

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Triceratops – Was Torosaurus Just an Old Triceratops?

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Velociraptor – The Movie Raptor Was a Different Dinosaur

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Spinosaurus – Its Bones Lost to an Air Raid, Its True Shape Still Unsettled

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Tyrannosaurus – Named Three Times, and the Newest Name Stuck

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【Life of the Ordovician】Nautilus – A New Ancient Creature Driven into the Deep

Earth Timeline

【Earth Timeline 12-1】The Cretaceous Period – When Flowers Bloomed and Feathers Spread

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【Earth Timeline 12-2】The Cretaceous Period – The Day the Asteroid Hit