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An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
Season 1
Episode 18
Our image of dinosaurs has been constantly changing since naturalists started studying them about 350 years ago. Taken together, these pictures can tell us a whole lot about just how much we have learned. Let's explore the history of dinosaur science as seen through the history of dinosaur art.
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12:10
Did you know the evolution of the butthole was a major breakthrough in animal development?

12:28
Learn about the complicated the history of mammals and their disappearance.

9:19
Where are all the east coast dinosaurs?

10:50
Where did our moon come from? The origin is even stranger than you may imagine.

10:04
The Himalayas changed everything.

11:53
What led to the creation of the trunk?

11:55
What was the first ever drink?

9:45
How did the "false horse," Thoatherium, and its relatives survive?

10:21
Did you know volcanoes created the Atlantic Ocean that we know today?

8:04
Learn about how researchers have discovered a piece of a weird, but critical, time in the deep past…

10:46
Maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind"?

10:18
How did such a strange plant like cannabis come to be in the first place?