Anthropologist's Paleontology. Volume 2. Mesozoic
Anthropologist's Paleontology. Volume 2. Mesozoic
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Mesozoic is triumph, it is greatness!
The second part of the trilogy "Paleontology of the Anthropologist" by the famous Russian popularizer of science Stanislav Drobyshevsky illustrates the picture of our Earth in the Mesozoic era. Throughout most of the Mesozoic Era, development proceeded as if in slow motion. During this period, flowering plants and butterflies, turtles and snakes, birds and mammals appeared. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and other "saurians" disappeared. It would seem that why do we need to know about them, if there are no offspring left from them? If such magnificent creatures, who ruled the planet for many eras, failed, we certainly can not do it? But no! The existence of ammonites, plesiosaurs and all the other strange creatures of the past was not wasted. With their daily lives they influenced ecosystems, changed the world they inhabited, forcing our ancestors to evolve. Without them, there was no guarantee that one of the species would have picked up a stone in each hand sixty-three million years later and begun a new era in the history of the planet, and perhaps the entire Galaxy.
The second part of the trilogy "Paleontology of the Anthropologist" by the famous Russian popularizer of science Stanislav Drobyshevsky illustrates the picture of our Earth in the Mesozoic era. Throughout most of the Mesozoic Era, development proceeded as if in slow motion. During this period, flowering plants and butterflies, turtles and snakes, birds and mammals appeared. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and other "saurians" disappeared. It would seem that why do we need to know about them, if there are no offspring left from them? If such magnificent creatures, who ruled the planet for many eras, failed, we certainly can not do it? But no! The existence of ammonites, plesiosaurs and all the other strange creatures of the past was not wasted. With their daily lives they influenced ecosystems, changed the world they inhabited, forcing our ancestors to evolve. Without them, there was no guarantee that one of the species would have picked up a stone in each hand sixty-three million years later and begun a new era in the history of the planet, and perhaps the entire Galaxy.
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