The dinosaur era was far more colorful than Hollywood suggests
In short: Forget the drab, brown swamps of old movies. This documentary uses modern science to reconstruct a vibrant, tropical world where dinosaurs lived in a landscape vastly different from our own.
For much of their 165-million-year reign, the Earth lacked many features we take for granted today. There was no grass, no polar ice caps, and for a period longer than the entire history of mammals, the planet was entirely devoid of flowers.
The continents were fused into a single supercontinent, allowing for travel from pole to pole. Modern paleontology also reveals that dinosaurs were not mere monsters; fossil evidence shows they possessed complex feathers for insulation and display, and lived in social structures involving herding and parental care.
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