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Growing quickly helped the earliest dinosaurs and other ancient reptiles flourish in the aftermath of mass extinction

  • Written by Kristi Curry Rogers, Professor of Biology and Geology, Macalester College
image_Eoraptor lunensis_ lived roughly 230 million years ago, at a time when dinosaurs were small and rare. Jordan Harris courtesy of Kristi Curry Rogers, CC BY-SA

It may be hard to imagine, but once upon a time, dinosaurs didn’t dominate their world. When they first originated, they were just small, two-legged carnivores overshadowed by a...

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