Animal Armageddon: Tyrannosaurus rex
Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the last great carnivores of the dinosaur era, and one of the most fearsome predators to ever walk the earth.
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What would happen if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs struck today? Can technology save us? Or will we suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs?
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Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the last great carnivores of the dinosaur era, and one of the most fearsome predators to ever walk the earth.
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Dunkleosteus was a giant, ancient fish that weighed as much as three elephants. Dunkleosteus had one of the most powerful bites ever recorded.
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Trilobites, prehistoric relatives of today's ants, were industrious scavengers that kept ancient sea floors clean.
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Ichthyostega: not quite fish and not quite amphibian. What exactly was this ancient creature? We do know that it had lungs, limbs and lived mostly on land.
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The Mosasaur, an ancestor of the modern-day snake, was a powerful swimmer that was well-adapted to living in warm seas.
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Triceratops, with its distinctive frills and horns, had one of the largest skulls of any land animal. It was a formidable match for Tyrannosaurus.
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Tiktaalik is the first vertebrate to walk on land, and the earliest known link between aquatic fish and the first amphibians.
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Bothriopelis was an ancient armored fish. Covered in armored plates, this bottom-feeder was a difficult meal for the Late Devonian's super-predators.
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Troodon is believed to have been one of the most intelligent dinosaurs, even more intelligent than mammals of the time period.
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Eusthenopteron, an ancient fish, was an agile predator with a nasty bite. Eusthenopteron had many unique features shared by the earliest land vertebrates.
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Phobosuchus was a prehistoric monster, the largest species of crocodile ever known to have walked the earth. Instead of zebras and wildebeest, it fed on dinosaurs.
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The coiled nautiloid was among the top predators of the Ordovician. Its coiled shell allowed it to survive at much deeper depths than the straight-shelled nautiloids.
A deadly blast. Almost all life wiped out. And that's just the first mass extinction! Animal Armageddon brings to life ancient worlds and prehistoric creatures doomed to destruction.
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