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In this era would you see the Dodo Bird?


What is the Cenozoic Era?

The first recorded mention of the dodo was by Dutch sailors in 1598 its main habitat is believed to have been the woods in the drier coastal areas of Mauritius. In the following years, the bird was hunted by sailors and invasive species, while its habitat was being destroyed with its extinction occuring in 1662.

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This event was the starting point of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction which brought upon an end of the dinosaurs.

What is the Astroid impact?

Almost 65 million years ago with the impact of the Astroid created the Chicxulub crater that is buried under the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico but can see impressions from around the area of the impact line that came from it.

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There is more time separating the evolution of this animal and the Tyrannosaurus than there is between the Tyrannosaurus and human beings.

What is a Stegosaurus?

he Jurassic dinosaur Stegosaurus had already been extinct for approximately 80 million years before the appearance of the Cretaceous dinosaur Tyrannosaurus. Which is in comparison to Tyrannosaurus to us it is 15 million years more time.

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From PBS Kids Dinosaur Train this young tyrannosaurus named Buddy was adopted by this family of flying reptiles. 

What are Pteranodons?

Dinosaur Train was created by Craig Bartlett, who also created Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold! and was co produced by the The Jim Henson Company.

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In the movie known as the Ice Age, the main antagonist known as Soto was this cenozoic creature.

What is a saber tooth tiger/Smilodon?

Most commonly known as Saber Tooth Tigers, Soto was the leader of the pack in addition to having Diego be the one to bring the Manny, Sid and the baby back to him, but instead Diego had a change of heart since he felt more at home being a part of a herd.

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In what Era would you see a Majunasaurus?

What is the Mesozoic Era?

Majunasaurus is an abelisaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in Madagascar from 70 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, making it one of the last-known non-avian dinosaurs that went extinct during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.

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In this year was the first fossil of Archaeopteryx was discovered and described

What is in 1861?

In 1861, the first fossil of Archaeopteryx was discovered and described. It wouldn’t be for another 135 years that another feathered dinosaur would be discovered.

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Despite the length of the Argentinosaurus being considerably bigger. This animal is still known to be the largest animal to have ever existed in comparison to tons.

What is the Blue Whale?

The size of Argentinosaurus is to be estimated at around 80 tons and the size of the Blue Whale is still the standing champion at around 200 tons.

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In the ABC show Dinosaurs about the Sinclair family from 60 million and 3 years ago. The father Earl Sinclair was this type of dinosaur.

What is a Megalosaurus?

In the show Dinosaurs it is most known for its most controversial ending being the company that Earl Sinclair worked for WESAYSO worked to remedy the poppy problem by spraying chemicals throughout Pangea, but this kills all the plants, leaving no food for the residents. As the company continued to try to correct their misguided plans, the situation worsened and led to the Ice Age, ending the show with the family huddled in their home.

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In the movie known as the Land Before Time for the dinosaur known as Littlefoot was this type of dinosaur.

What is a Brontosaurus?

For the Land before Time it was the highest grossing animated film of all time until The Little Mermaid (1989) and was also the only film outside of the Indiana Jones films that Steven Spielberg and George Lucas produced.

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In what Era would you see a Dimetrodon? 

What is the Paleozoic Era? 

Thought to be a dinosaur at the beginning it is actually one of the earliest relatives to mammals during the Permian Period from the Paleozoic Era.

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This de-excinction biosciences facility is planning on bringing back multiple different extinct animals being the Wooly Mammoth, the Dodo, and the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) with the first baby Wooly Mammoth reporting to be birthed in 2028.

What is Colossal Biosciences?

For Colossal Biosciences even though their works seems to be stemming of Jurassic Park their goal is to help with the ecosystem with the Wooly Mammoth helping cool down the permafrost that is getting heated up and the Thylacine being brought back to be the apex predator again in Tasmania. 

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During WW2 on the night of April 24, 1944 the Royal Air Force hit Munich with a bombing raid that wrecked the museum and destroyed this dinosaur's fossils inside.

What is the Spinosaurus?

Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach was the German paleontologist who studied the first remains of the original Spinosaurus skeleton and having given its name but sadly during WW2 all of Stromer’s Spinosaurus fossils and other dinosaur fossils from Egypt were destroyed in the bombing from the Royal Air Force.

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From BBCs Planet Dinosaur, this dinosaur wouldn't actively hunt its own species, but is shown to have cannibalized its own kind.

What is the Majunasaurus?

Majungasaurus skulls and bones have been found and studied throughout Madagascar. In fact, paleontologists have found so many bones that Majugasaurus is one of the best studied dinosaurs in the world of paleontology. In addition to recently discovered bones with bite marks from other Majungasaurus prove they ate each other. This was the first direct evidence of cannibalism found in dinosaurs.

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The first appearance of this dinosaur known as the Ceratosaurus was shown in which movie of the Jurassic Saga?

What is Jurassic Park 3?

During the scene of when Allen Grant, Paul, Amanda, and Erik Kirby hear the satellite phone from the pills of excrement to them being to search through it. Then Ceratosaurus approaching them intrigued but then immediately turned away but the disgusting smell.

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 In this era you would be able to find a Pakicetus.

What is the Cenozoic era?

Pakicetus was a shore-dwelling creature with webbed feet that lived around 49 million years ago. Scientists were able to link Pakicetus to the evolutionary lineage of whales because of its distinct, dense ear bones.

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After a bidding war between these two Academy award winning actors for a fossil of a Tarbosaurus skull, the fossil was sadly forfeited to the US government after finding out it had been illegally transported.

Who is Nicholas Cage and Leonard DiCaprio?

Leonardo DiCaprio got into a bidding battle with Cage over this rare dinosaur skull but Cage emerged victorious, having paid more than $270,000 for the fossil. Almost six years later, things were complicated by the discovery that the auction house had obtained the skull from someone who had illegally imported fossils from China and Mongolia.

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At around 1000 years after the Great Pyramids of Egypt were built, this animal became extinct.

What is the Wooly Mammoth? 🦣 

Most of the woolly mammoths died out by around 10,000 BC. However, a small population existed on Wrangel Island as recently as 4,000 years ago. The pyramids were built about 4,500 years ago, so mammoths were still in existence when Egypt was the most powerful nation on earth.

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In the Netflix show Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous this animal aka E750 was the first genetically modified dinosaur that was before the Indominus Rex that Dr. Henry Wu created.

What is the Scorpius Rex? 

The Scorpios rex was depicted as a medium-sized theropod, being smaller than Indominus rex and slightly larger than the Indoraptor and bigger than the Velociraptor.[2] The creature's genetic makeup was a mixture of Carnotaurus, Velociraptor, Tyrannosaurus rex, tree frog, and scorpion fish DNA.

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From the 1993 classic known as We're Back! A Dinosaur Story. The protagonist Rex was able to gain the voice of this legendary voice actor from a scientist of the future after eating a cereal known as "Brain Gain".

Who is John Goodman?

John Goodman was the legendary voice actor chosen as the main protagonist Rex from We're Back! A Dinosaur Story as well as marking his first animated theatrical film debut.

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In this era you would find the Beelzebufo ampinga aka the Devil Frog that is 16 inch tall and 10 lbs.

What is the Mesozoic Era?

Not only was the frog huge, it was powerful in design, had a protective shield, an extremely wide mouth and powerful jaws. These features made Beelzebufo capable of killing lizards and other small vertebrates, perhaps even hatchling dinosaurs.

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One of the most preserved and complete skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus Rex ever found. Sue was originally was going to be put in a private collection before these two major corporations helped fund it to be placed in the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois.

What is the Walt Disney Company and McDonald's Corporation?

After Sue Hendrickson’s landmark discovery, it was three parties that embarked on a five-year custody battle that ended in a public auction in 1997. And the winner of auction went towards The Field Museum with support from McDonald’s Corporation, the Walt Disney Company, and other private donors at a staggering $8.4 million which was the most money ever paid for a fossil at auction. In addition that at Walt Disney World Resort there is a replica known as Dino-Sue placed in Dinoland USA area in Animal Kingdom.

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This animal went extinct in North America alongside other megafauna at the end of the Pleistocene, some 10,000 years ago, only to be reintroduced by the Spanish conquest.

What is a horse?

By the last Ice Age, large single-toed animals, who fed on grasses (similar to the horses we know today), had become widespread. These wild horses went extinct about 10,000 years ago, possibly due to a combination of climate change and human hunting.

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In the BBC Earth documentary Walking with the Dinosaurs at the beginning of third episode it showcases an Eustreptospondylus standing near the show before this marine reptile comes up out of the water and snatches it. 

What is a Liopleurodon?

Later on in the episode it showcases that the Liopleurodon was beached to shore because of a storm in which it dies and became food for the scavenging Eustreptospondylus showcasing the circle of life ever continues.

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For the iconic Tyrannosaurus Rex also referred to as Rexy, she was at this age during the events of the famous movie, Jurassic Park.

What is 5 years of age?

From canon document during the Jurassic World campaign build up for the 2015 movie. It is stated that Rexy had lived on the for over 25 years and being born in 1988. In turn stating it was 5 years old during the events of Jurassic Park.