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11-11-2016, 08:38 AM
The fossils that rewrite the history of the dinosaurs: 230 million-year-old remains suggest their rise was 'more gradual' than thought

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It's easy to imagine dinosaurs swiftly colonising the land at the expense of their predecessors in the Triassic.

But a new fossil proves the rise of these 'terrible lizards' was more gradual than first thought.

Palaeontologists have discovered two small dinosaurs frozen in time along with another creature that belongs to a group of animals called lagerpetids.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3924216/The-fossils-rewrite-history-dinosaurs-230-million-year-old-remains-suggest-rise-gradual-thought.html#ixzz4Pgv3fDtr