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First Dinosaurs


First Dinosaurs

Approximately 230 million years ago, during the Triassic Period, the dinosaurs appeared, evolved from the reptiles. Plateosaurus was one of the first large plant-eating dinosaurs, a relative of the much larger sauropods. It grew to about 9 meters in length. Plateosaurus probably walked on all four legs most of the time, occasionally rearing up to eat from the tops of trees.


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