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The Full History of Dinosaurs: How They Rose, Ruled and Never Really Disappeared

Published Nov 5, 2026 · 54 min

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Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid struck a shallow sea where Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula is today, and began a long death. This film goes back to the start of the story: a world emptied by the worst mass extinction we know of, the small, overlooked reptiles that came through it, and how their descendants came to dominate the land for more than 150 million years.

Narration in this film is a synthetic, cloned voice. Sources and image credits are in the YouTube description.

Chapters

1. 00:00 The Long Dark
2. 01:42 The World Before Dinosaurs
3. 06:19 The First Dinosaurs
4. 11:09 Dinosaurs Take Over
5. 15:36 Giants of the Jurassic
6. 22:02 Dinosaurs Conquer the Planet
7. 27:15 The World of Predators
8. 33:28 Armor, Horns and Feathers
9. 39:11 The Evolution of Birds
10. 43:54 The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
11. 49:03 The Discovery of Dinosaurs
12. 52:21 Dinosaurs Never Disappeared

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