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What's a prehistoric toolkit and how could it rewrite human history?
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A prehistoric toolkit is a set of tools that early humans utilized. Learn about a prehistoric toolkit in this article from HowStuffWorks.
Which Prehistoric Creature Are You?
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Plenty of animals are around today whose traits you might want to channel, but what about the animals of yesteryear? From dinosaurs to mammoths to smilodons to terror birds (a real thing), which are you?
Why Were So Many Prehistoric Animals So Big?
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A lot of prehistoric animals were massive, but do we really know why? And is there a larger animal roaming the planet today?
Prehistoric Turtle Had a Toothless Beak But No Shell
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A 220 million-year-old turtle fossil discovered in China is the first of its kind ever to be found. HowStuffWorks looks at the rare fossil discovery.
10 Cretaceous Animals That Weren't Dinosaurs
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The dinos hog all the Cretaceous headlines. Do you have any idea what else scurried, hopped and otherwise cruised around Earth before the K-T mass extinction?
Meet Gigantophis garstini, an Enormous Prehistoric Snake
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Before the 2003 discovery of Titanoboa cerrejonensis, Gigantophis garstini was known as the largest snake to ever roam the Earth.
The Smartest Dinosaur (and 9 More Clever Prehistoric Reptiles)
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Which were the smartest dinosaurs? While we can't sit a Velociraptor down for an IQ test, scientists use fossil evidence like brain cavity size and body ratios to make educated guesses.
Kaprosuchus Was a Giant, Dinosaur-eating 'Boar Croc'
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Travel back about 95 million years ago to the Late Cretaceous period, and you might just find a "boar crocodile" called the kaprosuchus.
Patagotitan Dinosaurs Weighed More Than 25 Pickup Trucks
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The next time a 4-year-old asks what the biggest dinosaur ever was, you can respond confidently: It was the titanosaur Patagotitan mayorum (simply "Patagotitan" for short), a colossal creature that lived more than 100 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period.
Titanoboa: Exploring Colombia's Prehistoric Giant Snake
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The extinct Titanoboa snake lived around 66 million to 56 million years ago. These things were massive and could reach 50 feet long and 3 feet wide making them the largest snake ever to have roamed the Earth.