A Brief History of Life: Dinosaur Time!
The Great Dying hit life hard, but the species that survived took over the planet and diversified into many interesting forms, including the dinosaurs! A Brief History of Life Part 1: https://yout...
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Welcome to the third installment of our miniseries on the history of life on Earth! When we left off, life had been brought to its knees by a mass extinction at the end of the Paleozoic era. The Mesozoic era, from 251 to 65 million years ago, followed the great extinction and would produce some of the weirdest and most fascinating animals of all time. Including the dinosaurs! It also led to most of the major land animal groups we know today. Like other eras, the Mesozoic is divided into periods -- in this case, three of them. The first period, the Triassic, lasted from 251 to 199 million years ago. It was a time of transition, when the dominant vertebrates of the late Paleozoic, the therapsids, pretty much disappeared. A new group of reptiles, the d...
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Welcome to the third installment of our miniseries on the history of life on Earth! When we left off, life had been brought to its knees by a mass extinction at the end of the Paleozoic era. The Mesozoic era, from 251 to 65 million years ago, followed the great extinction and would produce some of the weirdest and most fascinating animals of all time. Including the dinosaurs! It also led to most of the major land animal groups we know today. Like other eras, the Mesozoic is divided into periods -- in this case, three of them. The first period, the Triassic, lasted from 251 to 199 million years ago. It was a time of transition, when the dominant vertebrates of the late Paleozoic, the therapsids, pretty much disappeared. A new group of reptiles, the d...
