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Dinosaurs PTERODACTYL TERRIBLE LIZARDS 8-9 THE JURASSIC PERIOD 16-17 A FIERCE ERA 24-25
Fossils of this flying dinosaur
THE TRIASSIC PERIOD 10-11
DIFFERENT SPECIES 18-19
THE GREAT PREDATOR
are found in rocks from the
late Jurassic and Cretaceous THE AGE OF REPTILES 12-13 A DOCILE VEGETARIAN 20-21 OF THE SOUTH 26-27
periods.
THE FIRST GIANT HERBIVORE 14-15 THE CRETACEOUS PERIOD 22-23 LIVING LIFE TO THE LIMIT 28-29
uring the 170 million years from the Earth. Some were small, but others findings of paleontologists, who study the K-T extinction event. Some attribute the
the late Triassic Period to the were gigantic. Some ate only plants and fossilized teeth and bones of these animals. dinosaurs' disappearance to the impact of
late Cretaceous Period, an had long necks, and others had sharp Sometime during the late Cretaceous a large meteorite with the Earth. In this
extraordinary group of animals, teeth. Currently we are increasingly well- Period, dinosaurs disappeared from the chapter, you will find very detailed
D called the dinosaurs, dominated informed about dinosaurs because of the face of the planet in an event known as the illustrations of these prehistoric creatures.
