Mesozoic

Prehistoric Life

【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 Triassic】Tanystropheus – The Small Ones Were Not Juveniles but Adults of a Second Species

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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 Jurassic】Dilophosaurus – The Venom and Neck Frill Were Fiction; the Real Animal Was a Sturdy 6–7 m Predator

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【Life of the Triassic】Chirotherium – The “Thumb” in the Hand-Shaped Tracks Was a Fifth Toe Sticking Out to the Side

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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 Jurassic】Liopleurodon – The 25-Meter TV Sea Monster Was Just Over 8 Meters Long

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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 Triassic】Plateosaurus – The Dinosaur That Could Not Turn Its Palms Down

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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 Jurassic】Megalosaurus – The First Dinosaur Bone Ever Illustrated Was Taken for a Giant’s Thigh

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【Life of the Jurassic】Ichthyosaurus – The First Complete Skeleton, Lost in an Air Raid, Was Found Again in Plaster

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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 Jurassic】Archaeopteryx – The Fossil Whose Feathers Were Called Forgeries Was Cleared by Cracks and Mineral Patterns

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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 Jurassic】Allosaurus – Injury-Scarred “Big Al” Turned Out to Be a Different Species

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【Life of the Jurassic】Stegosaurus – A Walnut-Sized Brain and the Misunderstanding Born from a Cavity in Its Hips

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

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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

Earth Timeline

Earth Timeline Series – Index

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【Earth Timeline 10】The Triassic Period – Filling the Seats Left Empty by Extinction

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【Earth Timeline 11】The Jurassic Period – When Dinosaurs Took the Lead on Land

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【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