Are Birds Dinosaurs? What were the world's biggest and smallest dinosaurs? and Is It Possible to Clone a Dinosaur? All these prehistoric related questions (and a whole lot more) are answered by our intrepid science reporters, Jeanna and Mindy.
Below you can find links to further reading on the topics discussed in this episode.
- Ancestors of modern birds were theropod dinosaurs
- The earliest birds are reported to share much in common with their theropod relatives, including feathers and egg-laying
- Weight estimates of The Argentinosaurus - a type of titanosaur - range from 77 tons (70 metric tons) up to 110 tons (100 metric tons)
- The Micropachycephalosaurus, a thick-headed plant-eater, measured 2 feet (70 cm) in length
- Another long-gone animal that some scientists have thought about “bringing back” through cloning is the woolly mammoth
- Conservationists argue that resources should be spent on currently threatened or endangered animals
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