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theCHIVE · Animals · 5 min read
Your Childhood Dinosaur Knowledge Is About to Get Wrecked
A fact-check of the dinosaur lore many of us learned as children, from familiar names to prehistoric assumptions.
Melissa revisits the dinosaur facts that shaped childhood imaginations and checks them against what we know now.
Prehistory reconsidered
The feature takes familiar dinosaur claims and shows how scientific discoveries have changed the stories attached to them.
“The dinosaurs did not change. Our picture of them did.”
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