From the Great Dying to the bird outside your window: 165 million years of dinosaurs in one hour. How a group of small reptiles survived two mass extinctions, grew into the largest land animals ever, invented feathers and flight, and how one asteroid ended it all — almost.

CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
1:09 Chapter 1. The World Before the Dinosaurs
6:02 Chapter 2. The Rise of the Ruling Reptiles
11:01 Chapter 3. The First Dinosaurs
15:57 Chapter 4. The Second Great Extinction
20:46 Chapter 5. The Age of Giants
25:28 Chapter 6. Hunters and Armour
30:18 Chapter 7. Feathers and the First Birds
35:52 Chapter 8. Flowers and Monsters
41:02 Chapter 9. Horns, Crests and the Tyrant King
46:13 Chapter 10. How We Know
51:41 Chapter 11. The Last Day
56:41 Chapter 12. The Dinosaurs That Never Left

Footage: Discover TheImpossible, NASA (public domain), Mixkit, Coverr, Wikimedia Commons.

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