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The Extinction That Never Happened
Season 1
Episode 10
Natural history is full of living things that were long thought to have gone extinct only to show up again, alive and well. Paleontologists have a word for these kinds of organisms: They call them Lazarus taxa.
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Why the Triassic was full of creatures that look a lot like other, more modern species.
7:31
234 million years ago, the climate suddenly changed for the wetter.
12:34
The Cenozoic marks the rise of organisms that look a lot like us.
7:28
In 1912, a fossil collector discovered the world’s only known semi-aquatic dinosaur.
10:45
Reptiles in time grew to become some of the largest forms of life ever to exist on earth.
7:03
How did two of the same kind of animal end up looking so different?
8:05
Ancestors of cephalopods all had shells until it proved to be their biggest weakness.
11:06
The search for our origins go back to a single common ancestor.
7:19
We talk to Amy Atwater, Collections Manager at the Museum of the Rockies.
8:09
What has been observed and learned from putting dinosaur bones under a microscope.
