Was life on Earth ever like a fairy tale? Perhaps if you go back a hundred million years ago, in the Cretaceous period. How else to call the mysterious impenetrable thickets of lush forests and ferns taller than a person? And most importantly, the absolutely unimaginable monsters that roamed these thickets?
We know that dinosaurs lived there. And at the end of the Cretaceous period, the ancient reptiles reached their highest peak. For example, scientists from the University of California counted 2.5 billion tyrannosaurs over the entire period of their existence. These dinosaurs are considered the most aggressive and successful predators of all time. But there were also dinosaurs with horns, hooves, duck beaks, huge crests on their heads, and bizarre bone collars on their necks, not to mention thousands of teeth. Some of them may even have emitted flames from their nostrils like fire-breathing dragons. However, this scientific hypothesis hasn't yet been proven.
Well, scientists have no doubts about the monstrous size of some reptiles. In China's northern province of Hebei, a group of paleontologists has unearthed about 4,300 dinosaur footprints. There were leg prints that reached several meters! This is a bit less than a Ford Focus car. According to scientists, the giants were over 15 meters (50 feet) long. Just like a railroad car! But there’s so much more that dinosaurs could surprise us with!
Which of them were similar to chimeras that seemed to be several creatures at the same time? Why did one of the dinosaurs need horrendous meter-long claws like Freddy Krueger? And which of the flying reptiles had a wingspan that reached the height of a two-story building?
We invite you to immerse yourself in the incredible ancient world of the Cretaceous period. And get to know who inhabited the Earth during the last brightest era of dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous.
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