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Prehistoric Life

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Illustration of two people kneeling next to a dinosaur skull that is larger than they are. Caption: A T. rex skull can weigh up to 750 pounds.

A large dinosaur wearing a hat and a necklace changes the lightbulb on a streetlamp while a police officer stands next to her holding the light cover. Caption: She was the dinosaur who did favors for anyone who asked.

Fossilized remains of the skull of an animal with large teeth. Caption: from the evidence they left behind.

A close up of an imprint in the shape of a shell left in the rock. Caption: An imprint of the organism is left in the rock.

Complex diagram indicating the relationship of different species of organisms. Caption: and are separated on the theropod family tree.

Two people with tools in their hands in a desert-like setting, digging in a mound of earth. Caption: Searching for these 112 to 98 million-year-old remains,

A woman seated at a desk in a suit jacket surrounded by books and preserved specimens. Inset picture: Bear-like creature - Caption: Beardogs! … They're a thing. As named, they resemble a mash-up for a bear and a dog.

Fossilized outline of a fish in stone. Caption: and eventually turns to stone.

Person holding a large animal skull. Caption: The teeth on this thing are huge.

illustration of Coelophysis. On screen text, dinosaurs. Caption: Female, Coelophysis lived about 220 million years ago.

Person speaking. Caption: To de-extinct a species requires finding viable DNA,

Skull of a dimetrodon and a human side by side. The temporal opening on both skulls is highlighted. Caption: allowing for improved chewing and biting capabilities.

Host Emily talks to Lance Grande at the Fossil Lake in Wyoming. Caption: One of the longest-lived lake systems we know of

Two people sitting side by side at a table working on something under a bright light. Caption: Then you scrape the matrix from the fossils.

Person holding a fossil of a spiral shaped animal. Caption: Hildoceras bifrons is an extinct species of ammonite

Illustration of a giant shark dwarfing the whales it swims with and is about to bite into one. Caption: megalodon was maybe 50 feet, or 15 meters, in length.

A diagram titled, ghost lineage, shows cars of different ages.

Person speaking. Caption: Well, today we're gonna talk about mammalian diversification.

Large skeleton with tusks in a museum. Mastodons were around about 20 million years before mammoths. Caption: Mastodons were on Earth before mammoths,

Illustration of large mammals with curving tusks. Caption: and many of his paintings hung with the articulated skeletons

Person gesturing towards preserved remains of a dinosaur. Caption: This shape tells us that it's a meat-eating dinosaur.

Black and white photo of a partially exposed fossil in the ground. 1900 field museum geology expedition (in which the brachiosaurus is found). Caption: It was declared the largest dinosaur known

Person using a wooden mallet to break open a stone. Caption: About half have something in them.

A large ship is in the water piping fossil fuels. An expanded view from the ship depicts a man researching in a lab setup. Caption: What happens over the last 70 million years.

Cartoon of a group of large cat-like animals with two protruding fangs. Caption: (narrator) This tells us a little about the life of baby saber-tooths.

Illustration of a man standing with his arm out to touch a skeleton so large most of it is not captured in the image. Caption: the first model of a complete dinosaur skeleton.

Cartoon characters in prehistoric times standing among large dinosaurs. Caption: They're even good mothers.