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7 Rivals Early Dinosaurs Defeated on the Path to Dominance

The road to dinosaur dominance wasn’t the quick takeover we might imagine. Picture this: roughly 240 million years ago, when the first dinosaurs appeared, they were just small, nimble creatures scurrying around in a world already ruled by giants. But how did these chicken-sized underdogs eventually become the most successful land animals Earth had ever ...