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1: Foreword 2: Timeline of life 3: Changing planet 4: Types of fossil 5: Fossil finds 6: Origin of life 7: Game-changers 8: Evolution and extinction 9: The vertebrates 10: What is a dinosaur? 11: Inside a dinosaur 12: Before the dinosaurs 1: The first animals 2: Built to survive 3: Set in stone 4: Trilobites 5: The age of fish 6: Fish armour 7: Early life on land 8: Towering trees 9: Arthropod Empire 10: Airborne giant 11: Early amphibians 12: Rise of the reptiles 13: Reptiles branch out 14: Hungry hunter 13: The age of dinosaurs 1: The first dinosaurs 2: Prosauropods 3: Sauropods 4: Mobile necks 5: Titanosaurs 6: Footprints and trackways 7: Stegosaurus 8: About tails 9: Deadly spikes 10: Ankylosaurs 11: Dinosaur defence 12: Iguanodontians 13: Plant-eaters 14: Hadrosaurs 15: Cool crests 16: Dinosaur eggs 17: Dinosaur Creche 18: Pachycephalosaurs 19: Ceratopsians 20: Head to head 21: Herds and packs 22: Early theropods 23: Allosauroids 24: Cutting edge 25: Tyrannosaurs 26: Ultimate hunter 27: Ornithomimosaurs 28: Oviraptorosaurs 29: Arms and hands 30: Protective wings 31: Therizinosaurs 32: Sharp Claws 33: Dromaeosaurs 34: Toothed eagle 14: Dinosaurs take flight 1: Skin, scales, and feathers 2: Feathered hunters 3: First up 4: Taking off 5: Early birds 6: Giant birds 7: High speed killer 15: Pterosaurs 1: Early pterosaurs 2: Later pterosaurs 3: Prowling predator 4: Colour crests 16: The marine world 1: Life in Mesozoic seas 2: Early marine reptiles 3: Flippers and tails 4: Giant marine reptiles 5: Ambush hunter 17: The rise of mammals 1: A new world 2: Trapped in amber 3: The first mammals 4: Giant sloths and armadillos 5: Body cover 6: Mega-marsupials 7: Giant herbivores 8: Powerful predators 9: Mammal teeth 10: Sabre charge 11: Ice-age giants 12: Primates 13: Early humans 14: Window on the past 18: Glossary 19: Index 20: Acknowledgements