Clancy, Matilda, and Banjo: Australian Dinosaurs, Living Large
Two specimens of the wonderfully weird fossil Dickinsonia, a 550-million-year-old, flat, corrugated fossil “thing” from the Ediacaran Hills of South Australia. What is it? After more than 60 years of study, we’re still not sure, although we think it’s an animal. And it was first found in Australia.
Permian extinction, facts and information
A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the 10-foot (0.3-meter) predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown here, hunted floodplains in the heart of today's South Africa. In less than a million years Dinogorgon vanished in the greatest mass extinction ever (the End-Permian Extinction, a/k/a "The Great Dying"), along with about nine of every ten plant and animal species on the planet.
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