Sentences with phrase «cretaceous underbrush»

More than 120 million years ago, while giant dinosaurs crashed through the forests in fearsome combat, a quieter drama unfolded in the Cretaceous underbrush: some lineage of hairy, diminutive creatures stopped laying eggs and gave birth to live young.

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Listening to the panel members from the traditional publishing industry talk, I thought of dinosaurs shuffling through the underbrush in some cretaceous forest, looking up at the sky when a bright shiny thing comes barrelling through the atmosphere.
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