Growing quickly helped the earliest dinosaurs and other ancient reptiles flourish in the aftermath of mass extinction
- Written by Kristi Curry Rogers, Professor of Biology and Geology, Macalester College
_Eoraptor lunensis_ lived roughly 230 million years ago, at a time when dinosaurs were small and rare. Jordan Harris courtesy of Kristi Curry Rogers, CC BY-SAIt may be hard to imagine, but once upon a time, dinosaurs didn’t dominate their world. When they first originated, they were just small, two-legged carnivores overshadowed by a...