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Learn about life through time... Jurassic

If you asked somebody on the street to name a past geological period, the most common response after "don't know" would be the "the Jurassic". Thanks to Jurassic Park and other media productions, it has become, bizarrely, one of the most beloved periods in the earth's history.

The world certainly was a very different place in the Jurassic period (208-144 MYA). Small herbivore dinosaurs gave way to the enormous Sauropods, with giant bodies and long, thick necks. About halfway through the period ferocious Allosaurs began to spread, and flying birds evolved. Aquatic reptiles like ichthyosaurus and the plesiosaurs preyed on smaller creatures in the oceans.

See also: Dinosaurs

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