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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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Paleodictyon, a hexagonal-patterned fossil, is a bit of a mystery. What could it be?
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We may have found the blueprints for building them ourselves.
6:37
Diictodon used burrows to breed and a male parent may have stayed behind to feed it.
8:09
Large feline roamed Eurasia and Its fossils have been found across the continent.
9:05
Ants have been farming for 60 million years! We explore how, when and why they started.
7:56
Would it really be impossible for us to reconstruct their morphology?
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Sour used to be the taste of danger. But, now its role has reversed.
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This tiny, simple animal, the Myxozoans, evolved from something bigger and more complex.
7:50
Only a few million years ago, Hyenas lived very different lives from what we know today.
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A truly enormous ichthyosaur reached its size within just a few million years.
8:50
The giant pterosaur's occupied the empty Hateg Island.