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Even extinct dinosaurs look nothing like what most people believed when they were kids

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Theropods are descendants of large, two -legged, non-avian dinosaurs called theropods.

Well-known dinosaurs like the Triceratops would be totally different than anything we know from the fossil record.

With a preponderance of dinosaurs remaining on our planet, humans and other mammals would not have had the chance to evolve into existence.

Surviving dinosaurs would have evolved much quicker thanks to evolutionary advantages they’d already developed.

Dinosaurs may have grown into gradually smaller animals thanks to the relative ease of digestion of fruits and flowering plants compared to gymnosperms of the Cretaceous.

Some dinosaurs before the asteroid hit were living up above the Arctic Circle , in conditions that were considerably warmer than what was to come with various ice ages over the millennia.