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obligatory fun fact: the word ‘cretaceous’ comes from the latin word for ‘chalk’ (creta), because the big chalk deposits in western europe were made in the cretaceous period. so next time you’re falling asleep in class, just remember the writing on the blackboard you’re totally ignoring is actually made of dead algae that lived alongside t-rexes.

…that is, unless you’re teacher uses gypsum-based chalk… in which case never mind.

Transcripts

dini: the cretaceous period (145-66 mya)
dini: the world has mostly split into the continents we have today. the biggest and coolest dinosaurs appear on earth, like triceratops, ankylosaurus, velociraptor, argentinosaurus, the biggest known dinosaur, and tyrannosaurus rex.

dini: then, after 89 million years, all dinosaurs (except birds), big marine reptiles, a-and pterosaurs were wiped out in an extinction when…
sedna: …

dini: …an asteroid c-crashed into earth.

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